With over 92,000 all-time downloads, Lightbox Plus is a very popular solution for displaying large images elegantly in a WordPress blog. Lightbox Plus displays images in a pop-up, framed box while darkening the rest of your site.
This is a much more elegant and user-friendly solution than either shrinking large images down to fit within the design of your site or leaving them to be displayed as an image-only page.
Click on the image below for an example of Lightbox Plus in action.
The White House - Washington, DC
This plugin doesn’t require any additional steps outside of standard plugin installation—either download the plugin and upload to wp-content/plugins using your favorite FTP client or use the “Add New” button in the Plugins menu. It is worth noting, however, that this plugin’s setup options will be found under the Appearance menu, rather than under Settings as one might normally expect.
If you like Lightbox Plus, be sure to donate to its developer, which you can do via PayPal from the Lightbox Plus menu.
Cord is the director of new media at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He has been a web developer for over a decade, working with non-profits to rein in their web development costs and grow their online audiences through simple best practices.
