Upgrade to newest Kirby - need advice to rebuild site

The CMS Questions
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Hello

I have an old, simple Kirby site that I created myself with images and videos that are shown in a lightbox. (http://synsnerve.dk/objekter - for some reason the lightbox doesn’t work in the https version).

My question is: Would it be easy to re-create this site in the latest Kirby? Simple pages with a gallery where the assets open in a lightbox (and videos can play in the lightbox) + the user can navigate to the next/previous asset while staying in the lightbox mode. Is this easy to create with plugins in Kirby or would I need to code it again with PHP? I don’t see any of the templates avaialble that have this simple fucktionality.

I hope you can help. I want to upgrade and rebuild the site, but my PHP abilities are long gone.

Br, Anders

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Hello,

I don’t think it would be too difficult to replicate your current (beautifully minimal) website with the latest Kirby Starterkit (with built-in lightbox) in terms of layout and image galleries etc.

However, the aforemenioned lightbox is rather limited (albeit by design). In this respect I chose SimpleLightbox for a recent client site built with Kirby. This offers the next/previous navigation functionality you require with very little configuration. Works smoothly on conventional and touch displays too.

Hope this helps.

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that is because of the browser blocking mixed content:

In other words, you are trying to load scripts from insecure origins. The browser blocks those when the page is loaded via a secure connection. Specifically, in your case you’re trying to load jQuery from an http url:

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Notice the http://.

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That makes sense! Thank you.

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Thank you! Will the SimpleLightbox play videos as well?

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Sorry, as far as I am aware this particular Lightbox does not support video. However, it should be easy enough to source an alternative that does.

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Thanks again. So, this means that I have to code PHP in order to implement a lightbox, right? I had hoped that I could just use a plugin within Kirby.

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No PHP knowledge required. All you are doing is integrating the Javascript and CSS files used to power the Lightbox. You can see how this is done by examining the source code of the Starterkit.