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New Lightbox Plugin for Wordpress

If you have pictures on your site, and you would prefer to show small thumbnail pics on the pages, you can use this really simple plugin to create some nice professional effects, and be able to show a large picture.

Here's the site for the plugin. It took me about 5 minute to download, read up on and FTP to my Niagara Falls site.

You can see an example here.. Just click on the picture (that says just click on the picture .

You can also click on the picture below.

According to their site, Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers. The only issue I had was a conflict with WP eCommerce which I use on some sites.

Here's the site for the plugin: Lightbox Plugin

If you simply want to enlarge the picture, there's another way. It is to use Andy Staines "Enlarger" plugin. (http://www.yellowswordfish.com). Although he hasn't got the time to continue supporting this plugin, it works great.

Here's an example .. click on the picture:

Just click on the picture to reduce the size again.

Which you prefer is a personal decision. Both have value on sites.

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