Thickbox

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  dragonsmurf · Member · Apr 3, 2011 at 6:30 am

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  I am wondering how does one use Thickbox on the blogs?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 3, 2011 at 7:38 am

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  You can’t do it directly, but the socialvibe widget has the thickbox code built into it, so if you add the socialvibe widget to your sidebar, then you can include

  class="thickbox"

  in your image HTML and it will give you the thickbox effect.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 3, 2011 at 7:40 am

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  Here is a tutorial that one of the volunteers here did.

  http://teckline.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/thickbox-hack/

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 3, 2011 at 2:30 pm

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  There have been problems with thickbox for readers who are not logged in to WordPress.com:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/thickbox-issues-new-windows-opening-instead?replies=19#post-466192

  Unless there have been changes since last June, non-logged in readers see the image load for a second, then it disappears.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 3, 2011 at 2:42 pm

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  Oops: The images don’t disappear: they open in a new browser window just as it you had used target:blank in the image link…

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  dragonsmurf · Member · Apr 3, 2011 at 4:29 pm

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  thank you for the answers I will be looking right into this.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 3, 2011 at 7:44 pm

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  I sure wish they would add a thickbox type of image viewer here. It could be an option either at settings > media.