Plugin to add a lightbox only to chosen post images or by custom post type

[aaronjpitts]

Is there a plugin which can make an image in a post use a lightbox (or similar), the only plugins I have found so far will add a lightbox to images in all posts, I want to be able to choose by each individual post what images to add to a lightbox or to be able define a lightbox by a custom post type (im using WP 3.0).

Thanks

[chipbennett]

Is there a plugin which can make an image in a post use a lightbox (or similar), the only plugins I have found so far will add a lightbox to images in all posts, I want to be able to choose by each individual post what images to add to a lightbox or to be able define a lightbox by a custom post type (im using WP 3.0).

Thanks

I use Lightbox 2.

The plugin has an option "Auto-lightbox image links".

Simply un-check (disable) this option. Then, for any image you want to appear in a Lightbox, just add rel="lightbox" to the image link anchor tag.

[aaronjpitts]

I was just wondering if there was a way to do this without having to manually edit the anchor tag, as I am trying to set up Wordpress as a CMS for a client that will want to add images themselves and not change code.

Thanks

[C3MDigital]

I would suggest using Fancybox . It is very easy to work and I would suggest adding manually to the theme rather than using the plugin. To target all images with an a tag your code would be:

$("a:has(img)").fancybox();

To target all images within a certain post type you could use the is_post_type($post_type) conditional tag

I am using it on this site to pull custom posts into a fancybox.

[chipbennett]

I was just wondering if there was a way to do this without having to manually edit the anchor tag, as I am trying to set up Wordpress as a CMS for a client that will want to add images themselves and not change code.

Thanks

Well, there has to be some middle ground somewhere:

a) Let the plugin apply Lightbox to all post images
b) Don't apply Lightbox to any post images
c) Have some way of indicating which images should have Lightbox applied

Scenario C doesn't require code-editing; just image-editing. Edit the image, go to the Advanced tab, and enter rel="lightbox" in the "Rel" field.

I'm not sure it gets much easier than that - unless you're looking for a plugin that gives the user a checkbox in the edit image dialogue, or something?

[hakre]

I am trying to set up Wordpress as a CMS for a client that will want to add images themselves and not change code.

WordPress CMS features are acutally pretty limited and you just crossed such a limitation.

I could imagine that it is possible to extend the image properties dialog with a checkbox which then takes care of adding / removing rel="lightbox" as suggested. That made your customer would not need to deal with "code" for those images but by clicking with the mouse instead. Would that look like what you are looking for for your customer?