Update: The Shadowbox JS plugin is back in the repo!
I was notified on December 28, 2011 that a complaint was made to the WordPress.org plugins repository team that the Shadowbox JS plugin contained non-GPL code (shadowbox.js). This is correct, and I have known about it for some time, and although I had permission from the author to include it in the plugin download, it still doesn’t make it GPL. Due to this, the plugin has been pulled from the WordPress.org Plugins Repository.
It will likely be some time until I can get it back into the repo, as it is going to require some pretty large updates to the plugin to make use of the WP_Filesystem class to ensure that I can have the plugin reliably download the shadowbox files and put them into place so that they can be used.
I could always strip shadowbox out of the plugin, and require users to download and upload manually, but the user experience of doing such would be horrid, and likely cause a lot of users to stop using the plugin.
In the mean time the plugin can be downloaded from http://dl.sivel.net/wordpress/plugin/shadowbox-js.3.0.3.9.zip
If you wish to test out the upcoming version that is addressing the issue of including shadowbox.js to get it back into the repository, you can download it from http://dl.sivel.net/wordpress/plugin/shadowbox-js.3.0.3.10a.zip
Arg! shadowbox.js is one of my favourite plugins. It’s the first plugin I install when I create a new website. I’ve been using it forever. I hope that you can get it up and running again very soon.
If I download the plugin from sivel.net will it still update automatically or will I need to check back here from time to time and perform updates manually?
Thank you for your work. I wish you all the best in the New Year!
Best regards,
Dameon
You will get automatic updates assuming that I get it back up on the repo. Nothing special would need to be done on your end.
Thanks for this! The latest version fixed the issues I was having. Hope you get it in the repository soon. Good luck and thanks for the best light/shadow box plugin out there.
This is also one of my faves! Please resurrect it! :)
Thanks for posting it on your own site. I had it installed one one blog from the wordpress repo, but then when I could no longer find it, I searched for it and found it on your site.
Thanks
Jamie
Thank you for your work.!!
I’ve used your plugin now on several sites and none compares. It’s been the most trouble free and works-every-time image/video presentation plugin I’ve found. Hope to see it on the repo again sometime soon…
I also love shadowbox js. It rocks! I hope you are able to update it. I’ve also noticed it stopped working with WP 3.3.1 on one of my sites. Is that a problem across the board, or unique to me? Thanks and good luck… great plugin.
Thank you for putting this up really needed the plugin
Hi Matt,
I’d been searching for Lightbox-esque plugins and all the reviews pointed to yours as the best. So I was disheartened to see it was pulled from the wordpress.org repository. I had thought that this meant it wasn’t available at all for use, but happily that isn’t true.
This plugin is brilliant for turning a non-premium themed WordPress site into a premium one (of course you know that) but for me in particular it provides an opportunity to learn more about javascript and wordpress plugins/themes.
From my perspective (relatively new into web technologies) it is a best-practice attempt to pass through all the features of the original non-WordPress application to the WordPress plugin. It doesn’t hide away all the settings, but rather displays them as possibilities thereby paying proper respect to the underlying Shadowbox application.
I’d be fascinated to learn the process you went through to develop this.
Anyway, thanks for something that helps empower me to get my content looking great.
Cheers!
Mike Smith
Brisbane, Australia
Matt,
Sorry to hear this. Shadowbox is the absolute best! Does the upcoming version support multisite?
Thanks!
PS: What can we users do to help?
This remains a serious pity. I’ve got your 3.0.3.10a version on all my sites; and I just love how it works. You need some t-shirts that say rel=”shadowbox” !
hey Matt,
for me as well, this is my favourite from the lightbox-types.
hope it will be officially back soon, I dload it from the link above for the time being.
thanks.
Thanks for making this available for download here!
I look forward to your update. I will download the plugin from here until otherwise necessary.
Looking forward to the return of the shadowbox js plugin.
Hi Matt,
How does it look with this plugin? Is there any chance that the plugin will get back to the official WP repository?
Thanks.
I agree. I like this plugin. That alone is a beer donation.
You play soccer – another beer donation.
And you live in SA. Close enough to my home in Austin. 3rd beer coming