Last year I was working on a project that was utilizing the jQuery Cycle plugin for a slideshow and I was struggling to find a compatible jQuery lightbox script which would play FLV videos hosted on the same server (with a built in media player). Unfortunately, the best one I came across was written in MooTools which would’ve led to conflicts. Worried that I would have to re-write the slideshow using MooTools or calling jQuery.noConflict() which I hate, I was relived when I stumbled upon Shadowbox.js, a lightbox style Media Viewer which was compatible with major JS frameworks like Prototype, jQuery, and MooTools. In addition to being incredibly easy to install (when compared to other lightbox scripts), it’s automatically adapts to whatever Javascript framework is being used! Best of all, no conflicts! It also does images, galleries, embedded video, and tons more.
Posts Tagged ‘Video’
Favorite Lightbox For Images and Video
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Displaying YouTube Thumbails in Your WordPress Posts
Saturday, January 9th, 2010Since I already wrote the snippet of code to get the thumbnails from the embedded Vimeo video, I thought I might as well do the same for YouTube. It will search through your posts’ content for YouTube embed code and will generate a thumbnail for you. It’s not fancy but it gets the job done.
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Displaying Vimeo Thumbnails In Your Blog Post or Archive
Thursday, January 7th, 2010With WordPress 2.9, you can now embed videos by simply pasting the URL into your blog post and have it create the embed code. I was using Vimeo and wanted to pull the thumbnail associated with the Vimeo video which was embedded in my posts.
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