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Modals is a powerful plugin that allows you to easily create cool modal popups on your site, like this!.
Modal popup windows are fancy popups also known as Lightboxes.
You can make modals / lightboxes for whatever you want: text, articles, other internal pages, external pages, images, videos, and even full-blown Modal Image Galleries & Slideshows with thumbnail creation.
Full control
Modals is packed with options to control the modal popups:
- Full control over styling (via styling options and CSS)
- Define dimensions
- Create image popups quickly and easily
- Make modal image galleries and slideshows automatically PRO
- Make popups open on pageload, or with a delay PRO
- Open Menu Items in modals
- And much more...
How to use it:
With Modals you can create your custom modals, and you can also automatically convert certain links or images to modal popups.
Here are all the ways you can activate Modals:
- Via the special Modal tags
{modal ...}...{/modal}
- By class names (all links with defined class names)
- All external links PRO
- By target="_blank" (all links with a target. Internal and/or external) PRO
- By filetypes (all links to given filetypes) PRO
- By url matches (also supports regular expressions) PRO
Modals also comes with a handy editor button to help you insert the code you need.