WordPress Video Lightbox Plugin – Display Videos and Images in a Fancy Lightbox Overlay

Comments (214 responses)

1. Jorge says:

   Great plugin, is there a way that when the page loads it triggers the light box and starts playing the video automatically?
2. Ben says:

   Love the plugin!
   Can’t get autoplay to work for vimeo though.
   Also, is there a way to add a hover over effect to thumbnail images (ie: display a different image with just text)
   Thanks in advance!
3. Richard Ambrose says:

   Started using this after another modal plugin broke when I upgraded WordPress.

   Excellent plugin for videos.
4. Jan says:

   Using this and Compact Audio player for my husband’s site. Thanks for the tips and tricks too! It’s perfect!
5. admin says:

   @CbrisB, The mod Leslye submitted is to automatically create and generate a thumbnail image from the video and use that as an anchor.
6. CbrisB says:

   From the comments I have read here the autostart is not supported by the free version. Is it supported if the user ” WP Video Lightbox Thumbnail Mod Submitted by Leslye” php file is loaded?

   If not, what is the above mod for?
7. Helen says:

   I got it to work – thanks its a great plugin!!
8. Heather says:

   I worked out how to disable related videos from showing up! 🙂 Instead of using rel=0 I tried rel=false AND IT WORKED!!

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO-ID-IN-HERE&rel=false

   I LOVE THIS PLUG IN – it’s the best plugin I’ve ever found I reckon…. well done 🙂
9. Denny says:

   Awesome plug-in! makes it all so simple.
10. Arpan Jain says:

    The plugin really worked for me. It has made my work easy. Thanks for the share and keep up the noble work!!!
11. Dawn DeLeon says:

    Nice plugin that actually works. I tried another version wp lightbox plus colorbox plugin that I couldn’t get to work. Thanks admin for your reply “You simply use the image URL as the value of the “anchor” parameter. Here is an example shortcode usage with an image as the anchor:

    [video_lightbox_youtube video_id="G7z74BvLWUg" width=640 height=480 anchor="https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/video-lightbox-thumb2.png"]

    That the code I needed to use image. and I put the rel=0 after id to show no related videos. Thanks for all your help.
12. Shahzad says:

    Very nice and handy…hats off to u
13. Randy King says:

    Really great plugin, thank you! Very clean, works as advertised and really straightforward to use it.
14. Dario says:

    This is a great and easy to use plugin – handled my needs right away!
15. admin says:

    @Lin, I have made a small update to the plugin which will allow this.

    Please download the new version of the plugin (v1.4) from this page then check the section with the following heading (it tells you how you can turn ff the related videos from showing at the end of the video)

    How to Turn Off the Related Videos At the End of a YouTube Video
16. Lin says:

    Hope someone can help. I really like the WordPress Video Lightbox plugin, but have been searching to find out how I can turn-off ‘related videos’ from showing up at the end of the video. I can turn them off at YouTube, but not with this plug-in.
17. Sonny says:

    This was the answer to my prayers. EXACTLY what I needed! Stumble onto it, glad I found this plugin. Thanks a bunch!
18. Chris Dunst says:

    If it helps anyone else, I found the following to be the definitive url formats to use:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=abcd1234
    http://vimeo.com/abcd1234

    Just change the abcd1234 on the above obviously. I went round in circles for a long time trying plugins and URL formats, but this plugin, with the above formats definitely works.
19. Steve says:

    Great plugin – exactly what I needed and a piece of cake to instal!
20. Mary Bouldin says:

    Just wanted to thank you for creating a perfect solution to my clients’ request along with excellent info on using the plug-in. It works perfectly linking to images as buttons with almost no effort whatsoever.

    Just a quick FYI for anyone trying to link a YouTube vid to am image as a button:
    
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7z74BvLWUg" title="" rel="nofollow">

    In that bit of the code, remove the space that you’ll find in the pdf instructions file here:
    
youtube.com/watch?v=G7z74BvLWUg" rel="wp-video-lightbox"

    To:
    
youtube.com/watch?v=G7z74BvLWUg" rel="wp-video-lightbox"

    This space between the video URL and the rel= code kept this from working ’till I deleted it.

    Great documentation, otherwise! You rock.
21. Adam Johnson says:

    This might help somebody in the future, I had problems getting Vimeo videos to work, YouTube worked fine though.

    It turned out the URL I got from Vimeo was wrong, or at least it needed to be changed to work.

    The bad URL was:
    http://player.vimeo.com/video/48556589

    The correct URL is:
    http://player.vimeo.com/48556589

    So just remove the /video part and that solves the problem. I’m sure the documentation tells you that somewhere but I missed it 🙂
22. admin says:

    @Larry, You simply use the image URL as the value of the “anchor” parameter. Here is an example shortcode usage with an image as the anchor:
    
[video_lightbox_youtube video_id="G7z74BvLWUg" width=640 height=480 anchor="https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/video-lightbox-thumb2.png"]

23. Larry says:

    Not sure if my message from yesterday was deleted but this plugin is AWESOME and very much appreciated
    Can you help explain how to replace the anchor YY with an image? I have tried what I know to do (limited) and failing at it (user error)
    Thanks!
24. Quadrofan says:

    Oh well, just use followed instructions!

    Go to plugin editor, and put the value of autoplay= ‘true’
25. Daniel says:

    Great Plugin! Works like a charm! Is there any chance to get this plugin to autorun the videos in lightbox?
26. Janice Bennett says:

    Sa-weet little plugin.

    Thanks so much!
27. Matias says:

    Already using this plugin and working perfectly.

    Thanks
28. Tone says:

    Just wanted to thank you for a super plugin!
29. Anonymous says:

    If you want autoplay, go to plugin editor, and put the value of autoplay= ‘true’.

    Thanks for the plugin btw.
30. Kat says:

    Thank you so much for this. Very useful and well done!
31. Bobby says:

    Thank you for the lightbox plugin. I will use this plugin for a few of my current projects!
32. John says:

    Yes, please append the example HTML code that have the &;amp between the width and height as this broke the code. Just changed it to width=”640″ height=”420″ and it worked perfectly. Great plugin. Thanks.
33. Rich says:

    You are awesome!! This plugin is awesome!! Awesome!!
34. snowlas says:

    Thank you! For taking the time and creating this plug in! And the guide. Much appreciated.
35. admin says:

    Yes, it will be able to do autoplay for YouTube videos.
36. Don Roberts says:

    Thank you for your quick response. Just to be clear, will Lightbox Ultimate provide autoplay functionality for YouTube videos?
    Best, Don
37. admin says:

    Hi Don, This lightweight plugin does not have autoplay option. The lightbox ultimate one has autoplay option for select libraries.
38. Don Roberts says:

    Hi,

    I’m using your great “wp video lightbox” plugin…and launching it after a visitor clicks an image (as shown in your associated PDF).

    Doing it this way, is there a way to make the video autoplay when the video player displays in the lightbox? Appending “&autoplay=1” does *not* seem to work. However, “&rel=0” does work to turn-off related videos from showing up.

    Best, Don
39. Mark Alan Effinger says:

    Dude!

    5 plugins, 3 custom script downloads and 6 hours later… and of ALL of the options, yours was the ONLY one that works effortlessly. Intelligently (thank you SHort Code Guy!) and performs without a hiccup.

    Next Starbucks is on me, my friend.

    Thanks a ton.
    ME
40. Stéphanie says:

    Few exactly what I was looking for, you saved my day !
41. Tarek says:

    Great Plugin, and it works nicely.

    And as a way to say thank you, I posted a quick youtube video, showing and explaining this plugin and how to use it.

    http://getyourblogready.com/2011/how-to-display-videos-in-a-fancy-lightbox-overlay-on-wordpress/
42. sohbet says:

    Very nice plugin to add Youtube video on blog, I have used it on my blog.
43. admin says:

    @John, the ability to group images or videos (the concept of image sets) is not present in this lightbox plugin. The premium version has shortcode that can handle this.
44. John Braunstein says:

    The option that is usually in JQuery lightboxes to chain images together (with previous and next buttons) with [name_goes_here] is causing the lightbox to pause on opening (basically breaking it). It that functionality not available with this plugin.

    Thank you for the plugin.
45. admin says:

    @Ricky, This free version of the lightbox video plugin cannot handle .mp4 media files unfortunately.

    The wp lightbox ultimate plugin can handle .mp4 media files:

    https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-lightbox-ultimate-plugin-display-media-in-a-fancy-lightbox-overlay-3163
46. Ricky says:

    Please can you tell me what the shortcode would be if i wanted to use my own hosted video in .mp4 format. I didnt see anything in the pdf guide that made reference to this format.

    Kind regards

    Ricky
47. admin says:

    You mean from the theme’s template file?

    You can embed videos from your theme’s template file by putting the shortcode through the do_shortcode() function. For exmaple:
    
<?php
do_shortcode('[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=XX width=640 height=480 anchor=YY]');
?>

48. Doggyology.com says:

    Is there any way to embed the plugin on the theme of wordpress?
49. Ajinkya says:

    hey thanks. awesome plugin 😀 this saved my lots of time
50. Alexandra says:

    Thanks for the awesome plugin – didnt have to search long to find it!
    and very easy to install – thanks!