---
title: "akWpLightBox : simple lightbox for wordpress"
url: https://thecancerus.com/akwplightbox/
date: 2008-05-21
modified: 2008-05-21
author: "ican"
description: "I always strive for simple solutions to all my problems, akWpLightBox plugin is result of one such endeavor. For quite some time now I was looking for a plugin which..."
categories:
  - "jquery"
  - "wordpress"
tags:
  - "akwplightBox"
  - "jquery"
  - "lightbox plugin"
  - "prettyPhoto"
  - "wordpress plugin"
word_count: 269
---

# akWpLightBox : simple lightbox for wordpress

I always strive for simple solutions to all my problems, akWpLightBox plugin is result of one such endeavor.

For quite some time now I was looking for a plugin which is lightweight, and can show images in lightbox like effect, in my blog.

The effort of creating a javascript functionality for that was putting me off, then few days back I saw the [prettyPhoto](http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyPhoto/), it is a [jQuery](http://jquery.com) based plugin for creating the lightbox effects for the images.

This made my job pretty easier, now I can have my lightbox effect, all i needed to was convert it into a wordpress plugin. So I did some modifications to the prettyPhoto to suite my needs, and here is the result of my work. Check out an working example below.

[](http://thecancerus.com/wp-content/pretty.jpg)
[![Example of akWpLightbox](http://thecancerus.com/wp-content/pretty.thumbnail.jpg)](http://thecancerus.com/wp-content/pretty.jpg)

**How To Install**

- Just download the akwpLightbox plugin, [akwplightbox.zip](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akwplightbox.zip).
- Extract *akwplightbox.zip* into akwpLightbox folder.
- Upload this folder into 'wp-content/plugin' folder.
- Now go to plugins section in admin and activate the plugin

Now, enjoy the lightbox effect.

**How To use**

Next time when you are adding a image in the post or page, just remember to link you image to full size image, or to image that you want to show in the lightbox. You may want to check "title" attribute of anchor tag, this will be displayed below the image as caption in the lightbox.

**Credits**

I will say all credit goes to [Stephane Caron](http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/) for creating simple to use [prettyPhoto](http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyPhoto/) plugin that made this possible.

If you have any questions, suggestions or issues just leave a comment below.

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