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Plugin Name: Always valid lightbox mod

Always Valid Lightbox Mod is a Lightbox plugin which adapts to site's DOCTYPE and provides a valid HTML markup.

By hb860·Images·Free
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·10 active installs·Updated 12 years ago
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As of April 2026, Plugin Name: Always valid lightbox mod is a WordPress images plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Autoptimize.

0/5Rating
10active installs
2.7K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013

Overview

This plugin is a modification of the “Always valid lightbox” plugin created by Joffrey Quillet. This mod contains a fix for the buggy image resizing and for the description text inside the lightbox popup. Also, it uses only the built-in jQuery library. More info.

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

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/article…

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Ratings & Reviews

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Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.6.1
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0

  • Initial release of the mod
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

hb860hb860
Plugin Info
Version
v1.0
Last Updated
Oct 23, 2013
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
3.6.1
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10
Downloads
2.7K+
Added
Oct 23, 2013
Business
Free

Tags

imageslightboxshadowbox

Developer

H
hb860
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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