A nifty little graphic plug-in

by mickey on March 2, 2008

Oddly enough, the first post on this SEO blog has nothing to do with SEO or monetization…

Golfing at Grand Island - 10th TeeI use WordPress for a handful of sites, so I’m always on the lookout for handy plug-ins.  I found this one today and just had to share it.  This is a plug-in for WordPress that makes any linked image have an on-page zoom effect, rather than just a simple link to the image.  Click the image to the right to see what I mean.

This is accomplished using a plug-in built around the “FancyZoom” script.  It’s a standard WordPress plug-in, though it does require one minor template edit (changing the “body” tag in your header).  It’s about a two minute install and it does a great job.

The plug-in can be found here and the original FancyZoom script can be found here.  Here is another live site that is running the plug-in.

Very easy, very slick, and free.  Gotta love it!

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  • http://www.konterfai.com Pierro

    Howdy;at first, thanks for sharing this . A nice Plugin and
    i would use it too, but im not a big coding nose, thats why i have some “problems” with the words:

    ” The final step involves replacing the tag, typically located in your theme’s header file with:
    ”

    What means [...] ? Mhh, maybee you find some of your times
    for my small question …

    salut

  • Mickey

    In your wp-content/themes directory are all of the themes that you have loaded. Inside of the folder for your active them is a file called “header.php”. Inside there replace text that says “<body>” with the code provided.

  • http://www.konterfai.com Pierro

    Hola;
    Tanks for your feedback – i try it, but not today and then i will see.
    The effect is really nice !

  • http://www.konterfai.com Pierro

    Hola again;
    It is simply amazing and it works well, but:
    I was used before the Lightbox plugin (im not sure if you know that)- a Picture with a grey Outline.
    At this time i can use the FancyZoom OR the lightboxplugin. Mhh; There is a possibility to use both ?

  • Mickey

    I don’t think there is any way to use both, as they use different effects to load the image. If someone knows otherwise, please let us know.

  • http://www.konterfai.com Pierro

    Thanks again for your fast feedback.
    And yeah, as soon as i bring something in experience;
    then i give you a sighn.

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