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

Comments (214 responses)

1. wpcommerce says:

   @Thomas, We don’t have an option to open lightbox from just a URL at the moment. But you can use HTML instead of a shortcode. Please check our usage instructions guide for details.
2. Thomas says:

   Hi !
   I really like your WP Video Lightbox. “Out of the box” it is really working fine. I use a picture as an anchor. But below the picture I also need a button linking to the video. But that does not work with my theme ! Is it possible to use the plugin with a real URL as a parameter without using the shortcode? That would be brilliant !
   Thanks
   Tom
3. wpcommerce says:

   @John, This feature is available in our Lightbox Ultimate plugin.
4. John says:

   Hi, Is there a way to open a YouTube playlist in lightbox?
5. wpcommerce says:

   @Tristen, We don’t have this kind of parameter in the shortcode. Please use remove it and enable the autoplay option in the settings.
6. Tristen Arnold says:

   My video won’t autoplay even though it’s set to true in the shortcode.
   [video_lightbox_vimeo5 video_id="260973989?autoplay=1" width="1024" height="576" autoplay="true" anchor="http://vivaldigroup.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/03/Video-Cover-2.jpg"]
7. wpcommerce says:

   @Joe, You need to add &rel=0 to prevent related videos from showing at the end of a YouTube video.
8. Joe says:

   Is there a way to not have the extra videos show at the end of the youtube video (i.e. the competing videos)?
   e.g. the code is usually ?rel=0&showinfo=0 for the videos at the end not to show it doesn’t work with your pop up
9. wpcommerce says:

   @Bernadette, Please copy and paste the full play button image URL into the address bar to make sure that your browser can load it.
10. Bernadette says:

    The youtube play button image isn’t showing. I can confirm the play.png image is located in this directory plugin

    Can you help with this?

    Thank you!
11. wpcommerce says:

    @Aniket, Unfortunately the deeplink option doesn’t directly open a video in lightbox.
12. Aniket says:

    Hi, Excellent plugin. Does exactly what it promises.

    But kindly help I am facing a small issue. The deeplinking enables appending the link to example.com/videos-new/#prettyPhoto-video-0/0/. However, when I copy this link and paste it into a new tab / window of the browser, it simply opens the page but doesnt pop up the lightbox with video.
13. Les says:

    Thanks for your reply – custom CSS has worked.

    I found the plugin CSS code and after trying a few changes I could resolve it by using adding this code snippet:

    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;

    I then removed that code from the plugin CSS and added this custom CSS into my theme options:

    .wpvl_auto_thumb_box{
    position: relative;
    width: 200px;
    height: 150px;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    }

    That has resolved the location problem, so thanks for your suggestion about custom CSS and your help.
14. wpcommerce says:

    @Les, Have you tried any custom CSS to align the image? Please provide a link to the page in question so I can take a look.
15. Les says:

    I’m using WP Video Lightbox v1.8.4.

    The plugin works well but I have one problem – the video thumbnails always default to the left of the page.

    It doesn’t matter how I try to position them – center or right they ignore the formatting and appear on the left.

    I have tried the plugin on three different sites with different themes and the result is always the same.

    How can I fix this?
16. wpcommerce says:

    @Jacob, Autoplay doesn’t work on mobile devices. It’s something disabled in the core hardware by the manufacturer. They designed it so the video will only play when the user initiates it (This prevents unnecessary bandwidth loss when the user is on a metered connection).
17. Jacob says:

    Hi there, I’m using your “WP Video Lightbox” plugin…. It work great!
    I want to make one tweak to it:
    – Make auto play video on mobile so we don’t have to tap twice to see video.

    So you see when we tap on a video card in this page it show a small thumbnail of video then if we tap on it we see video on mobile. So I would need to jump this thumbnail and get straitght to video player on mobile.

    I’m using and NOT shortcode. And I may have a few tweek to do on the desktop version also.

    I need your help asap to finish this video thing.

    Thank you veru much.
18. wpcommerce says:

    @Danielle, Disabling the “Autoplay Slideshow” option in the prettyPhoto settings should fix this issue.
19. Danielle says:

    Hi, When I use your YouTube shortcode the lightbox refreshes every 2-3 seconds. Is there something I might be missing?

    Thank you!
20. wpcommerce says:

    @Sukuma, You don’t need to add any extra code to the shortcode. You can easily enable autoplay in the video lightbox settings.
21. Sukuma says:

    Hi there, I’ve been using your wp video light box plugin and it’s great. I wanted to know is there any extra code to throw in there that will autoplay the video once it opens in the lightbox? Thanks so much and hope to hear back from you soon.
22. wpcommerce says:

    @Steven, Unfortunately that’s not possible at the moment.
23. Steven says:

    Can you get the video to play full screen automatically?
24. wpcommerce says:

    @ninadsamel, That will require you to use the YouTube/Viemo API to embed a video so your script knows exactly when the video finishes. Unfortunately our plugin simply uses their embed code. It has no way of knowing when to close lightbox. It needs to be manually closed by the viewer.
25. ninadsamel says:

    Hello, I just want to know how should i close WP-Video lightbox once video get stop.
    please help
26. wpcommerce says:

    @Asaph, Unfortunately it only plays YouTube/Vimeo videos at the moment. However, you will be able to play your Amazon Cloudfront videos with our Lightbox Ultimate plugin.
27. Asaph says:

    Hello, Does this plugin work with amazon cloudfront html content?
28. wpcommerce says:

    @Ilema, Unfortunately we don’t have integration with any button plugin. When you use a video lightbox shortcode it creates a text/image link (It depends on what you specify in the anchor parameter). You just click on that link to open lightbox.
29. Ilema says:

    Hi there, does anyone know how to use the Video lightbox with Maxbuttons? My button says Watch this, then I want the video to play in the embedded light box. I don’t know coding very well! Do I add the lightbox shortcode in maxbutton or the maxbutton code in lightbox?
30. wpcommerce says:

    @Jeff, Please replace “?rel=0” with “&rel=0” and see how it goes. Please see the “How to Turn Off the Related Videos” section for details.
31. Jeff says:

    Hi, I am looking for the html code to not play related videos.

    I embeded my video with this code, works perfect but would like the option to get rid of the related videos at the end.. I put in “?rel=0” at the end of my link but its not working.

    Thanks
32. wpcommerce says:

    @Elmi, Video Lightbox doesn’t use any API. It simply inserts the YouTube embed code.
33. Elmi says:

    Hi, Does WP Video Lightbox supports youtube API? It does not seem to work when I use the inline content opened in wp-video-lightbox to handle youtube function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady()

    Thanks in advance.
34. wpcommerce says:

    @Laurence, We only support popup from either a text link/image in both of our plugins. Button is not supported at the moment.

    I have checked the HTML code for your watch video button. It’s not actually a button. It’s just a text link that looks like a button. So you should have no issue opening popup from it.
35. Laurence says:

    Hello, I’m currently using the standard version of WP Video Lightbox and love the way that it’s working but would like to open up a lightbox with a button. Is there a way to use an HTML link to open a video lightbox or must it always be an embed code with an image. You can see that my first slide on the page below will open a Video Lightbox when clicked but I would like to have the “Watch Video” button open the lightbox. Can i do this with the Ultimate version?
36. wpcommerce says:

    @Will, Are you using our free video lightbox? It’s already compatible with https. If it’s not working that means you have some other incompatible plugin that is overriding the JavaScript library. You can easily check it in your browser console.
37. Will Steuber says:

    We recently upgraded our site to SSL and the lightbox no longer plays youtube videos. If we upgrade to a purchased version of the plug-in, will it work?
38. wpcommerce says:

    @Gary, Currently the plugin only supports text/image link.
39. Gary K says:

    Is there any way to specify shortcode for a button in the anchor, or can you only use text and image?
40. wpcommerce says:

    @Nancy, Your theme seems to be also including the prettyPhoto lightbox library. Can you please disable it?

    Video Lightbox is compatible with HTTPS. But it cannot control which library will get included when a page renders. Unfortunately in this case your theme one is getting included which is not compatible with HTTPS by default.
41. Nancy Verdi says:

    Hello, the youtube short code is not working for me. Am I doing something wrong? I tried it both ways with no success.

    [video_lightbox_youtube video_id="z0TbPRiYZkF" width="640" height="480" auto_thumb="1"]
[video_lightbox_youtube video_id="z0TbPRiYZkF" width="640" height="480" anchor="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/video-thumb.jpg" alt="business website design"]

    videos can been seen on this test page I created. https://hummingbirdwebdesign.com/video-test/
42. wpcommerce says:

    @Savannah, We don’t have any slider feature in our plugin. What you can do is edit the image link in your slider so it can pop up a vimeo video in lightbox. You don’t really need to make a lot of changes. Just adding a rel="wp-video-lightbox" in the link should do the trick. Please check our usage instructions guide for details.
43. Savannah says:

    Is it possible to use vimeo light boxes in a layer slider? For example, have the thumbnail image of the video as the layer slider image, and if the user clicks the thumbnail, the lightbox of the video will appear
44. wpcommerce says:

    @Jadmo, You just add shortcodes to the page to embed videos.
45. JADMO says:

    Hi, how I can embed more than one video?
46. wpcommerce says:

    @Cathy, We don’t display any share option in our video lightbox plugin. You may have another lightbox plugin installed which is applying these settings.
47. Cathy says:

    Can I disable the “share” and “like” options on the videos in the paid and/or free versions?
48. Jas says:

    That did the trick thanks!
49. wpcommerce says:

    @Jas, Have you disabled the “autoplay slideshow” checkbox in the settings (Settings->WP Lightbox->Library Settings->prettyPhoto settings)?
50. Jas says:

    Hello,
    I have a vimeo video that keeps restarting in lightbox. Any ideas?