Title: adding lightbox
Last modified: August 31, 2019

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# adding lightbox

 *  [nikmanolis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikmanolis/)
 * (@nikmanolis)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-lightbox/)
 * Hello if I need to play video in lightbox, the other plugins works usually with
   shortcodes. How I will combine? Also how it works in archivew page?

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 *  Thread Starter [nikmanolis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikmanolis/)
 * (@nikmanolis)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-lightbox/#post-11888809)
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    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by [nikmanolis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikmanolis/).
 *  Plugin Author [CodeFlavors](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeflavors/)
 * (@codeflavors)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-lightbox/#post-11897074)
 * Hi,
 * After you successfully query a video from a post edit screen, a couple of options
   will be displayed and you can choose how that video will be embedded. To open
   it into a lightbox choose to embed by shortcode button and copy the shortcode
   into the post content where you wan to display it.
 * See this for more details: [https://prnt.sc/p1kvch](https://prnt.sc/p1kvch)
 *  Thread Starter [nikmanolis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikmanolis/)
 * (@nikmanolis)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-lightbox/#post-11900250)
 * Hi
 * Thank you for your reply
 * In my research the shortcode options seems to handle the position only of the
   video. Do not popup a lightbox. And in this case, if I need another plugin for
   lightbox, then what with shortcodes?
 * ANother question is about the ‘replace featured image’ option, which in this 
   case the video disappears both in archive and signle post pages
 *  Plugin Author [CodeFlavors](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeflavors/)
 * (@codeflavors)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-lightbox/#post-11902932)
 * Hi,
 * The button shortcode should open a modal window with the video embed. If you 
   can direct me to a URL where I can see this I might be able to help you debug
   this issue.
 * The option to replace the featured image will work only if your theme uses the
   default functions in WP to display the featured image, in which case the plugin
   can hook to the appropriate filters and replace the image. Otherwise, this feature
   won’t work.
 *  Thread Starter [nikmanolis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikmanolis/)
 * (@nikmanolis)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-lightbox/#post-11903240)
 * Hello
 * Thank you for your reply.
 * I understand what is the problem with featured image. I use Genesis theme. In
   my opinion, it will be wiser and easier to let me be guided to change the functions
   names in plugin, in order to avoid any other future confliciton with other theme’s
   operations.
 * I work on localhost for the url. Perhaps it is a matter of theme. Any other chances?
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by [nikmanolis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikmanolis/).
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by [nikmanolis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikmanolis/).
 *  Plugin Author [CodeFlavors](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeflavors/)
 * (@codeflavors)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-lightbox/#post-11913325)
 * Hi,
 * Regarding the featured image, there’s no function name conflict with theme Genesis
   or any other code that isn’t compatible. This is about how your theme displays
   the featured image, most likely it uses custom code that doesn’t implement any
   of WordPress’s filters and the plugin can’t hook to the filters to replace the
   featured image with the video embed.
 * As for the modal, I really can’t say what could be happening. Can you take a 
   look in Chrome console and see if any JavaScript errors are issued?

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