Lightbox

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  limeblogt · Member · Aug 27, 2009 at 8:19 am

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  Can we please pretty please use lightbox – or something similar? It’s not available for wordpress.com (yet). I know a lot of people already asked for this. Why can’t we use this feature already?

  Thanks very much,
  Kate

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  furluge · Member · Aug 27, 2009 at 8:17 pm

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  It looks like thickbox appears to be enabled although somewhat covertly. If you have the socialvibe widgit visible in your sidebar you can add class=”thickbox” to links to make them open up in a thickbox, which is similar to lightbox. Information on thickbox may be found here: http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/

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  justjennifer · Member · Aug 27, 2009 at 8:33 pm

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  @furluge-And I must say, that is a very nice demo of thickbox on your site! Bravo!

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  furluge · Member · Aug 30, 2009 at 7:42 am

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  Well thank you Jennifer. Now if I could just get the thickboxes to appear over that silly meebome chat. :)

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  t3ck · Member · Aug 30, 2009 at 7:47 am

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  Theres actually a wordpress.com hack for this that doesn’t require the CSS upgrade
  here is the link http://sensicology.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/pop-up-picture-box-thingy-for-wordpress-blogs/

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  justjennifer · Member · Aug 30, 2009 at 9:02 am

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  @t3ck-more or less what furluge is doing. :)

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  furluge · Member · Aug 30, 2009 at 9:12 am

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  Yep, that’s exactly what I’m doing because I’m not about to pay that yearly fee just to edit a CSS file. Not when I could just self-host the thing, something I’ve been experimenting with. BTW I managed to answer my problem with the thickbox appearing under the meebome chat by using the text-widget to create a link that opens a thickbox with the IM chat inside of it. :D I’ll post something onto my blog about it tomorrow if anyone’s interested.

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  ljunjie · Member · Aug 30, 2009 at 4:37 pm

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  @furluge Thanks for sharing!

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  furluge · Member · Aug 31, 2009 at 5:25 am

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  To anyone still interested in this the promised posting on my creative solution to get the thickboxes and Meebo to play nice is now posted on my blog. Enjoy. :)