and click on add new
I’m going to search for fancy box for WordPress now you only want to search for this one there are other fancybox plugins this is the best one so just search for fancy box for WordPress
and you’ll know it’s the right one because it was made by Jose Padilla
go ahead and click install
and we’re going to install this
Kate let’s activate the plugin
so the plug is activated so now all we need to do is go to a either a post or a page just going to add a new post
Nokomis fancy box test
and now I just need to add some photos so I’m going to select some photos from my desktop
and WordPress uploads these and resize them based on the values that you sent on your theme excuse me on your settings page so we’ll just go ahead and click save settings in order for your images to use the fancy box plug-in you need to select image file
and I’m just going to leave my images organized by menu order and I’m going to put them in a three-column grid please click insert Gallery publish this
now we can do the post
and here we go so now we have a fancy box gallery
you can control the settings on the fancy box settings page that’s located in settings underneath the fancy box for WordPress
I usually like to set my overlay options 20 that’s just black and then I set the opacity of black 2.7 that allows the effect you see here just darkens the screen a little bit and allows the user to really focus on your photos