Tell us what you are trying to do?
I have created a view and have a link to a video. I have a video icon that links to a video. The link is added using a toolset shortcode. I want the video to open in a lighbox.
Is there any documentation that you are following?
I looked through the forum but only found solutions using the gutenberg editor, and I'm not using gutenberg.
Is there a similar example that we can see?
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Hi,
Thank you for contacting us and I'd be happy to assist.
From the page's code, it seems that you're using the Elementor builder. Elementor offers a built-in lightbox feature that can be used to show the images and video in a lightbox:
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You can get the video's URL from the Toolset Types custom field in the Elementor's "Video" widget using the dynamic source option:
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If you don't want to use the Elementor's lightbox feature, you can alternatively check out third-party lightbox plugins:
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I hope this helps and please let me know if you need any further assistance around this.
regards,
Waqar
Hi Waqar,
I'm just using the Elementor builder to add the view to the page. Is there a way to add some code to the link in the view to have it open in a lightbox? I need to edit the actual view, not anything via Elementor.
Thanks,
John
Thanks for writing back.
I tried this "Video PopUp" plugin and it can be used for the video lightbox that you're looking for.
( https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-popup/ )
You'll instal the plugin and then its shortcode can be used like this:
[video_popup url="video file URL" img="image thumbnail URL"]
In your view, you can replace 'video file URL' with the actual shortcode for the video field and 'image thumbnail URL' with the image URL that you'd like to use for the thumbnail.
My issue is resolved now. Thank you!
