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Lightbox XFN menu

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  • Rankugo 6 years, 3 months ago

    Is it possible to launch fv player lightbox from a WordPress menu link?

    Here is what I did when trying to make it work:

    From the WP Menus page, I chose “Screen Options”, “Show Advanced Menu Properties”, and checked “Link Relationship (XFN).”

    I created new menu item that was a link to an external video, and in the Link Relationship (XFN) field, I typed “colorbox”

    When you click the menu item, however, it just nothing instead of opening the video in a lightbox.

    Regards

    Ran

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  • Martin 6 years ago

    Hello Ran,

    FV Player lets you use plain HTML to create video lightbox: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/using-lightbox#lightbox-without-fvplayer-shortcodes

    However for that to work you would have to run the same filter on your navigation menus. You can try this in your theme functions.php file:

    add_action( 'init', 'fv_player_for_nav_menus' );
    function fv_player_for_nav_menus() {
      global $FV_Player_lightbox;
      add_filter('wp_nav_menu', array($FV_Player_lightbox, 'html_to_lightbox_videos'));
    }
    

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Rankugo 6 years ago

    Hi Martin,

    thanks for your response!

    I have tried to put your script on function.php of three themes : generatepress, twenty nineteen, twenty seventeen.

    It doesn’t word. Even I set my page with only one ma in menu

    By the way, my plan is using two menus on every pages:

    Main menu for changing pages

    Side menu for lightbox playlist menu.

    Does your script also work for costum menus?

    Regards

    Ran

    Martin 6 years ago

    Hello Ran,

    please check how exactly does your menu HTML look like. The function which I posted above is looking for:

    <a...class="colorbox"....></a>

    And that matching anchor then has to contain a href attribute pointing to a one of the known video extensions, YouTube or a Vimeo video.

    You might need to also add:

    add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu', 'do_shortcode' );

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Rankugo 6 years ago

    Hello Martin,

    I have tried all your scripts.
    It doesn’t work , or I just make a mistake .

    using chrome inpect:

     <li id="menu-item-28" class="colorbox menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-28">soal 1

    this is my website for testing:

    https://dewapintar.com/Dewantara/

    would you check if I make a mistake inserting your.script, please?

    Regards

    Ran

    Martin 6 years ago

    Hello Rankugo,

    the colorbox class has to be on the anchor, not on the li element.

    Thanks,
    Martin

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