Replace ThickBox

[aaron_guitar]

Have you thought about replacing ThickBox? It is no longer under development (as their site says) and it doesn't conform to standard jQuery plugin practices. For example, I'm trying to use it for a plugin of mine and I'm wanting to tie into the "onClose" event for ThickBox which isn't too easily done. I know I could just include one of the other plugins, like colorbox, with my plugin but I think it'd be a great service to other developers if you included a more flexible library.

(I would have assigned this to 3.0+ but the option isn't available.)

ColorBox appears to be really pretty BTW.

Really pretty and really customizable.

Replying to Viper007Bond:

And with a really helpful developer.  http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/  http://groups.google.com/group/colorbox/topics

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+1 for ColorBox. I'd never met it before, but it looks great.

+1 from me as well.

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Replying to caesarsgrunt:

+1 for ColorBox. I'd never met it before, but it looks great.

"Hello, ColorBox! How are you today?" :P

I've tried all of the so called alternatives and they pretty much all suck. The limitations of jQuery UI Dialog is that you can pretty much only assign one dialog at a time (unless there is a workaround that isn't obvious).

Colorbox is fine if you don't need to fine tune any scripting for the modal box. Say if you want to use any other scripting then the predefined one then you are SOL.

I would rather recommend qTip jQuery plugin instead. It is a tooltip first, but it has modal capabilities as well.

Replying to jacobsantos:

Colorbox is fine if you don't need to fine tune any scripting for the modal box. Say if you want to use any other scripting then the predefined one then you are SOL.

Could you give a specific example?

Maybe code like this one [12554]

Version tracks the original report..

Just started playing with colorbox because of the limitations with thickbox. It's pretty nice. I'm open to other options, but it WOULD be nice to find a replacement.

1+ for colorbox .

I want to suggest that I would rather to continue to monkey-patch Thickbox than replace it with another library. Replacing Thickbox means killing popups in core, not making popups prettier. Maybe once we've eliminated TB usage in core, we can shoehorn in a worthy WP-integrated replacement.

Replying to nacin:

Do you really think that the correct direction is no lightboxes anywhere? That feels like more of a knee-jerk reaction to their overuse and misuse on the web as a whole (and possibly in WordPress as well). I think they have their place. For example, to me it seems like it's always going to be better to browser your media library for something to insert into a post inside a lightbox. It seems like there's just too much content there to shrink that into a small section of the screen.

I'm interested in hearing (or better yet, seeing) the alternatives though.

The best argument for eliminating thickboxes for media handling is that by moving it inline, you can continue to work on your content while images are uploading/crunching. Not to mention drag-and-drop into the editor. See  http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/some-media-upload-sketches/. It's going to take some work but it can be possible.

Note that this work has mostly been done already, as a plugin:

 http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/image-pro-wordpress-image-media-management-and-resizing-done-right/

Replying to nacin:

Agreed. Actually started on a new media library UI couple of months ago. Looks pretty similar to the plugin @scribu linked above. Had some hopes that it would make it in 3.3 but definitely going to try it for 3.4 :)

Closed #19975 as a duplicate.

+1 for colorbox