16 LightBoxes and LightBox based CMS plugins
This list has two parts. Part One deals with Lightboxes which you can use in your website/Applications, and Part two is Collection of LightBox based Plugins for various Web applications like Blogs, Forums and CMS.
PART I : The LighBoxes
Lightbox JS 2 : Lightbox JS 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.
Visit: http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/
jQuery lightBox plugin : jQuery lightBox plugin is simple, elegant, unobtrusive, no need extra markup and is used to overlay images on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery´s selector.
Visit: http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/
LiteBox : Litebox is a modified version of Lightbox v2.0 created with one thing in mind, size reduction. Litebox utilizes the 3kb javascript library moo.fx in association with prototype.lite, giving us the basic tools we need to make this work and you the ability to expand.
Visit: http://www.doknowevil.net/litebox/
Facebox : Facebox is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages. It’s simple to use and easy on the eyes.
Visit: http://famspam.com/facebox
TinyBox: TinyBox is an easy to use lightweight JavaScript library for creating modal windows/dialogs in an elegant manner, without using traditional pop-up windows. It can be used to overlay content on the current page (i.e. you can load a page and display it in a box above the current one).
Visit: http://alexei.417.ro/node/4
iBox V2 : iBox is a lightweight script that lets you overlay images and documents ( Login Form, Images, YouTube Videos…. ) in a small dialog without a page reload. It’s built to be easy to install and use, while offering great flexibility.
Visit : http://www.ibegin.com/labs/ibox/
ShadowBox : Shadowbox is an online media viewer application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can showcase a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.
Visit: http://mjijackson.com/shadowbox/
LightWindow v2.0: A lightbox which support variety of media formats ( Videos, SWF… )
Visit: http://stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/
MultiBox: lightbox that supports images, flash, video, mp3s, html.
Visit: http://www.phatfusion.net/multibox/
Part II : The Plugins
Lightbox 2 for WordPress: This plugin includes the new Lightbox JS v2.04 javascript written by Lokesh Dhakar and got transformed into a Wordpress Plugin by Giuseppe Argento.
Visit :http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2-wordpress-plugin/
jQuery Lightbox for WordPress: As the name shows, this is just Wordpress’s version of the jQuery Lightbox Plugin written by balupton, perfectly working with Wordpress 2.2 or up, and fully compatible with K2!
Visit: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-lightbox-balupton-edition/
Protos LightBox Plugin For JOOMLA! : Simple plugin that just works. It’s vision is not the exact “LightBox” one, but is pretty easy to work. It doesn’t have thousands of options, you can not create complex galleries, but it’s just doing what it is supposed to do.
Visit: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,4052/Itemid,35/
Thickbox+ for Joomla : ThickBox+ is a one-for-all content box to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal based on jquery.
Visit: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,1599/Itemid,35/
flickr4j ( JOOMLA! ) : the flickr4j addons provide many ways to display your pictures from flickr in your joomla driven website! you can display your pictures in a component, in modules or also in content using two mambots. flickr4j uses lightbox2 and the phpflickr library to display the pictures. all you need to use the addons it is a flickr account.
Visit: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,707/Itemid,35/
INTEGRATE LIGHTBOX v1.6 for SMF(Simple Machines Forum) : Slimbox is a 7kb visual clone of the popular Lightbox JS v2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar, written using the ultra compact mootools framework. It was designed to be small, efficient, more convenient and 100% compatible with the original Lightbox v2.
Visit: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1158
LightBox for B2Evolution: The Lightbox plugin allows you to create posts with links to pictures and display them using Lightbox or Lightbox2.
Visit: http://manual.b2evolution.net/Plugins/lightbox_plugin











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