WordPress Lightbox Ultimate Plugin – Display Media in a Fancy Lightbox Overlay

The WordPress Lightbox Ultimate plugin allows you to embed your media files (images, videos, mp3 etc) using lightbox overlay display similar to the one shown below

Click Here to See the Video in a Lightbox

This plugin can be used to display images, mp3, mp4, flash, YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler videos in a lightbox popup. It can also be used with videos hosted on your Amazon S3 account.

Videos embedded with this plugin will impress your visitors!

Background

A lot of users of our free WordPress Video Lightbox plugin requested us to develop a more powerful and professionally supported lightbox plugin so here it is. The the WP Lightbox Ultimate plugin has many customization options and can handle many types of videos that the WP Video lightbox plugin couldn’t handle.

WP Lightbox Ultimate Plugin Demo

Please click on the following links and it will take you to a page where all the different types of media files have been embedded using the WP Lightbox ultimate plugin.

You can also watch the following video that demonstrate the WP ligthbox Ultimate plugin:

Video Showing the Lightbox Ultimate Plugin in action

Plugin Features

Easily embed videos anywhere on your WordPress site
Give your sales pages a fresh look with professional looking lightbox effects.
Embed media using an anchor text or an anchor image (the lightbox pops up when the text or image is clicked)
Videos embedded using lightbox effect take less space on your landing page regardless of the dimensions of the video
Embed YouTube (single video or a playlist), Vimeo and Viddler videos
Embed mp4, flv, flash (swf), f4v, mov video files
Embed Image files
Embed mp3 files
Embed PDF files (the PDF file will open in a lightbox overlay)
Embed videos stored on your Amazon S3 account
Embed Private/Protected videos stored on your Amazon S3 account to add protection for your videos (Works on all major browsers, iPhone and iPad)
Embed Private/Protected PDF files stored on your Amazon S3 account.
Place a secure download link for media files stored on your Amazon S3 account (this will allow your users to download the media file without compromising the security of the file).
Ability to group media files together when using the PrettyPhoto library.
Load another HTML page from your site in an overlay/popup

Plugin Installation Instruction

Click on the “Add New” link from under the “Plugins” menu in your WordPress dashboard
Click on the “Upload” tab then browse for the plugin file (wp-lightbox-ultimate.zip) that you received after purchase.
Click the “Install Now” button and hit activate when prompted.
Now go under the WordPress “Settings” menu and click on the “WP Lightbox” to access the settings menu of this plugin.

Plugin Usage

You can embed your media files on a WordPress post or page by using shortcodes

[Video] Basic setup, configuration and usage
[Video] How to embed videos from Amazon S3
[Video] How to embed protected videos from Amazon S3
[PDF] Download the WP Lightbox Ultimate YouTube video embedding shortcode list (Right click and choose “Save Link As”)
[PDF] Download the WP Lightbox Ultimate plugin shortcode list by media type (Right click and choose “Save Link As”)
[PDF] Download the WP Lightbox Ultimate plugin shortcode list by library type (Right click and choose “Save Link As”)
[PDF] Download the Amazon S3 Private/Protected Video and PDF File Embedding Documentation (Right click and choose “Save Link As”)
[PDF] Download the Styling a Lightbox Shortcode anchor Documentation (Right click and choose “Save Link As”)

Technical Support

If you face any issue with this plugin please post it on our customer only support forum and we will address it.

Get the WordPress Lightbox Ultimate Plugin Now

Get the WP Lightbox Ultimate plugin now and upgrade the look of your WordPress site!

WP Lightbox Ultimate

The WordPress Lightbox Ultimate plugin allows you to embed your media files (images, videos, mp3 etc) on a post or page using lightbox overlay display (Includes Free Updates). More Info

Frequently Bought Together

Lightbox Ultimate + Link Manager

The WP Link Manager and WP Lightbox Ultimate are two professionally supported utility plugins that most WordPress blogger should have (Includes Free Updates).

Price: $74.90

Price: $59.95

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#1 by Julian Deverell on May 16, 2012 - 12:24 am

This is a really awesome plugin – you guys have made it so simple to incorporate into a website and with virtually no hiccups along the way! Even the Ultimate package price is reasonable and I’m sure I will be using this to it’s fullest potential!

#2 by admin on March 8, 2012 - 7:36 am

Yeah there is an option to group your lightbox anchors. This page should help:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-affiliate-link-manager/?p=130

#3 by Parker on March 8, 2012 - 7:30 am

Is there any shortcode that will let me group my lightbox videos so I can create kind of like a video gallery?

#4 by sharewithusin on December 15, 2011 - 8:51 pm

you are really impressive very much attracted to your website and learned many new things from your site

#5 by admin on November 17, 2011 - 8:14 am

@Stephen, You can use the “Contact” link from the navigation menu.

#6 by Stephen on November 16, 2011 - 11:37 pm

I was interested in the WP Lightbox Ultimate Plugin, but had a few questions. What is the best way to contact you directly?

Thanks!
Stephen

#7 by admin on October 7, 2011 - 11:10 pm

You can find it here:

WordPress Settings -> WP Lightbox -> Library Settings Tab

#8 by Mike on October 7, 2011 - 10:16 pm

I couldn’t find a settings menu, but I was able to access the code by clicking Edit next to WP Video Lightbox under Installed Plugins. I did a search for Autoplay and changed where it said False to True. That did the trick

#9 by admin on October 4, 2011 - 1:49 am

@Mike, In the settings menu of this plugin it will have an option to enable video auto play if the library in question offers that option.

#10 by Mike on October 3, 2011 - 9:39 pm

Can you explain how and where I add the code to make it autoplay in the popup box?

#11 by admin on September 25, 2011 - 11:53 pm

@Chase, the lightbox ultimate plugin does have HTML5 support for videos. There is a shortcode for embedding video using HTML5 compatibility (check the demo page for the HTML5 section).

#12 by Chase Peysen on September 25, 2011 - 11:07 pm

Is there a way we can pay to have this have HTML5 video support? It’s an incredible plugin. GREAT CODING!

#13 by admin on September 5, 2011 - 9:12 pm

@Aaron, If you are willing to pay a fee then ofcourse we can look into it but it will be a few days before we can look at it. Yes the lightbox Ultimate plugin have support for the commercial version of the flow player (you will just need the serial key for the commercial flow player).

#14 by Aaron on September 4, 2011 - 11:55 pm

And, (sorry),
Just for clarification, does this plug in support the commercial add-driven version of flow player?

#15 by Aaron on September 4, 2011 - 11:25 pm

Thanks for answering

Would you be willing to modify the plugin to accept jw, if I paid you a fee?

#16 by admin on September 4, 2011 - 10:10 pm

@Gage, this plugin can auto play a video but automatically popping up the video when the page loads is a slightly different thing. This will just need a little bit of JavaScript code to popup that video when the page loads (we should be able to accommodate this).

#17 by admin on September 4, 2011 - 9:59 pm

@Aaron, the lightbox ultimate plugin does not use JW Player unfortunately (this is something we want to investigate down the path but flow player seems to be the popular choice at the moment).

#18 by Gage on September 4, 2011 - 3:43 pm

Interested in purchasing your WordPress Lightbox Ultimate plugin and I have one question before I buy it.

Can the WordPress Lightbox Ultimate Plugin be set to pop-up AUTOMATICALLY upon arriving at the home page of a Woo Theme as well as set for AUTO-PLAY?

Thank you,

Gage

#19 by Aaron on September 4, 2011 - 4:26 am

HI!
It really seems like you guys have a great team here, and the tutorials of how to use your products are great (especially because you show us what the products do BEFORE we buy them!) … Anyway…
Had one very important question to ask you before i decide whether or not to purchase. I currently use a commercially licensed version of the latest JW Player for videos on my site. I use their ad service to play a few pre-roles on my videos, so I am kind of partial to the revenue stream!
Am I able to use JW player with your lightbox plugin, instead of flow player?

#20 by admin on August 30, 2011 - 9:22 pm

@Jack, not sure why you would want to integrate the WordPress Lightbox ultimate plugin with CDNVault though. The Lightbox ultimate plugin can embed Amazon S3 videos on a page using Lightbox or the standard on page embedding method.

I don’t know of any easy method to migrate your existing videos unfortunately.

#21 by Jack on August 30, 2011 - 2:28 pm

Hi there, this plugin looks great by the way!

Can I use this in conjunction with Amazon S3 linked up to a plugin called CDN vault?

If you are not aware of this plugin, it is basically a secure way of protecting and easily posting the files from Amazon S3. Does lightbox still work with CDN vault?

Also, due to the fact I have hundreds of videos on my site, is it possible to quickly migrate this lightbox plugin into all of the videos currently on my site? Without the need to manually add the lightbox into each post.

Looking forward to hearing your response

Many thanks

#22 by admin on August 17, 2011 - 10:31 am

@Dawnna, look at the “Using HTML5″ section in that PDF doc.

#23 by Dawnna on August 17, 2011 - 8:30 am

I have the PDF and PRODUCT can you give me details please. I don’t see how to do it

#24 by wpCommerce on August 17, 2011 - 8:06 am

We have added two new shortcodes which will allow you to display S3 protected video in any HTML5 compatible browser. So now it should work fine on iPad or iPhone.

#25 by dawnna on August 16, 2011 - 1:23 pm

I made the purchase of this item based on this comment from the admin in April “I haven’t tested it with iPhone yet but I have tested it with my iPad and they work fine (I am pretty sure it will work on iPhone too). The flash videos won’t work on iPad though because apple doesn’t support flash on iPhone or iPad.

Yes you can upload your videos to Amazon s3 and embed with this plugin.”

So, I uploaded my videos to S3; followed the instructions and tada… does not work on IPad. Other than FLOWPLAYER which player can I use for my secure S3 files that will work on the IPAD.

Thanks!

#26 by admin on July 30, 2011 - 10:59 pm

@Jonathan, The lightbox ultimate plugin do not have any particular shortcode to handle files hosted on Cincopa but assuming it is just a video hosting site you should be able to host a video there and get the URL of the video and use it with one of the mp4/mov/flash video popup shortcode.

#27 by Jonathan on July 30, 2011 - 7:55 pm

Can I use Cincopa players and files hosted on Cincopa with this plugin? While we are at it, do you have an opinion of Cincopa’s services. I haven’t set up an account with them yet but am considering it instead of S3.

#28 by admin on July 27, 2011 - 11:16 pm

That sounds like you don’t have the acrobat reader installed correctly for the browser in question. If the browser can’t recognize a PDF file it will just prompt you to download it. Can you view PDF file in your browser normally?

#29 by Derek on July 27, 2011 - 2:59 am

When I test the demo of your WP Lightbox Ultimate using a Mac and Firefox it just opens a blank lightbox then opens system download window rather than displaying PDF in the lightbox. Is there a way around this?

Derek

#30 by admin on July 24, 2011 - 9:21 pm

Yeah the PDF in lightbox definitely works in all major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE etc). Not sure if the acrobat reader installation for your browser is messed up somehow (this could be the reason for it to not work for you).

#31 by Jeff on July 24, 2011 - 1:12 pm

This seems to be a wonderful plugin from using it here on your site.

I have been looking for a way to lightbox pdf files, yours does this well in IE, but not in Firefox, at least I could not get your example to work in Firefox.

Does this work for you. Is it my install of FF that is the issue?

How many sites can I use your plugin once purchased?

Thanks.

#32 by admin on July 20, 2011 - 10:55 pm

Nope, you can take a screenshot and make an image from your small video thumb then use that image as the anchor.

#33 by Alex on July 20, 2011 - 7:26 am

Hi, is there any way to use the small video thumbs as the link as opposed to a text or image link? Cheers dude

#34 by Jack on July 19, 2011 - 11:12 pm

Thanks for the feedback A very cool plugin though…great work!

Jack

#35 by admin on July 19, 2011 - 10:24 pm

Hi Jack, Nah, the lightbox ultimate plugin has too many lightbox options with different styles and stuff. Integrating it with eStore’s default fancy product display will be very messy (not worth the effort). Its best if you follow this principal:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/can-i-put-multiple-images-and-videos-in-the-fancy-display

#36 by Jack Berberette on July 19, 2011 - 8:39 am

I have two quick questions…

Can I use this as the default “lightbox” for WP eStore?

Can I set this so that it automatically works for images in posts?

Thanks,

#37 by Michael Ambrosio on July 12, 2011 - 2:28 pm

I just have to say this…

I bought this literally 10 minutes ago and I have the videos (hosted on S3) already working using the “Lightbox Special” settings. It was super simple and it looks fantastic.

Great product!

Mike

#38 by admin on July 8, 2011 - 10:16 pm

@Marcus, There should be no problem with the thesis theme and shortcode filtering. By default, WordPress does not filter shortcode in template file. You will need to pass the shortcode via the “do_shortcode” function if you want to use it from a template file but it should work just fine.

#39 by Marcus on July 8, 2011 - 7:55 am

Hello, I would like to have a .mp4 video in a lighbox for this website: http://cottageinmullion.co.uk using the obvious button in the header, the site is built on thesis and I’m not sure shortcodes will work in the thesis hook used to put the button in the header – can I use a ‘rel’ instead?

Thanks

Marcus

#40 by admin on July 7, 2011 - 2:28 am

@Leon, I haven’t setup a demo with multiple images yet but there is a parameter in the shortcode that lets you group images (kind of like a gallery of images).

If you use the HTML5 compatible shortcode to embed your videos it will work on iPhone, iPad etc. Check out the HTML5 Video embed section from the demo page (you can view this page in your iPad to get a feeling for how it will look):
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-affiliate-link-manager/wp-lightbox-ultimate-demo-73

#41 by Leon McKee on July 6, 2011 - 11:54 am

Do you have a demo with multiple images?

Any issues with display on the iPod, iPhone or iPad? We have some issues with “other” lightbox plugins popping up image(s) at the top of the page instead of the location of the users touch. This requires the user to scroll up to see the popup which is not good!

Leon McKee

#42 by admin on June 8, 2011 - 1:01 am

@Andrew, This is a WordPress plugin so it can only be used on a WordPress install (it won’t work on a stand alone HTML page if thats what you are after). Remember you can use custom page template to make WordPress page look like standalone HTML page:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-create-and-use-custom-page-template-in-wordpress-to-create-a-sales-page-2095

#43 by Ivy on June 8, 2011 - 12:51 am

Hi Melinda, The WP Ultimate LightBox is a multi site license so you can use this on as many stiles are you own and operate. =)