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Always Valid Lightbox

Always Valid Lightbox is a Lightbox plugin whose markup adapts to the WP site's Doctype, in order to always provide valid HTML markup.

By Joffrey Quillet·Lightbox·Free
4.5(2 reviews)
·60 active installs·Updated 13 years ago
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As of April 2026, Always Valid Lightbox is a WordPress lightbox plugin with 60 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.

4.5/52 reviews
60active installs
8.6K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012

Overview

Always Valid Lightbox is a Lightbox plugin which can automatically add the HTML attributes needed to trigger the effect on content image links, so that
the user never has to add a class or an attribute to his content images in order to make the lightbox work.

Also, AVL allows the user to chose the attributes he wants inserted on his image links, depending on the Doctype declaration used in the website header.php template.
This way, the lightbox never generates markup validation errors at the W3C Validator test.

The jQuery lightbox effect is an adaptation based on David Ryan’s jQuery lightbox tutorial : http://dryan.com/articles/jquery-lightbox-tutorial/

Read full description on WordPress.org

Ratings & Reviews

4.52 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.1.3

  • CSS modifications for better caption readability
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Joffrey QuilletJoffrey Quillet
Plugin Info
Version
v1.1.3
Last Updated
Aug 24, 2012
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
3.4.2
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
60
Downloads
8.6K+
Added
Aug 7, 2012
Business
Free

Tags

lightboxshadowbox

Developer

J
Joffrey Quillet
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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