Tobidase Swipe LightBox
Tobidase Swipe LightBox

Tobidase Swipe LightBox

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Each image in the Classic Editor shows a badge icon indicating its lightbox mode at a glance.

Each image in the Classic Editor shows a badge icon indicating its lightbox mode at a glance.

Tobidase Swipe LightBox opens images and videos in a fullscreen popup with swipe support.

Features:

  • Swipeable popup for images and videos
  • Supports YouTube, Vimeo, Niconico, Dailymotion, and MP4
  • Auto-fetches title and thumbnail from YouTube and Vimeo
  • Two popup styles: standard popup and zoom
  • Zoom on desktop: double-click or Ctrl+scroll to zoom in/out; drag to pan while zoomed
  • Auto-captures MP4 thumbnails from self-hosted video files (browser-side, no server processing)
  • Switch popup style per post type in the admin settings
  • Override the style for individual items directly in the post editor
  • Group images and videos within a post for sequential slideshow display
  • Reset the slideshow at the group boundary.
  • Slide counter display (current / total)
  • Loop, autoplay, and mute options
  • Caption alignment (center / left)
  • Keyboard navigation ( , Esc)
  • Admin bar compatible (z-index safe)
  • Hint animation on popup open (mobile)

How to open an image in the popup:

  1. Insert an image in the post editor
  2. Click the image click “Link” in the block toolbar
  3. Select “Media File” and save

How to insert a video:

  1. Place the cursor at the insertion point in the post editor (Text mode)
  2. Click the “Tobidase Movie” quicktag button
  3. Enter the video URL in the dialog
  4. Optionally add a thumbnail and caption, then click “Insert”

External services

This plugin connects to third-party services to retrieve video metadata (thumbnails and titles). These requests are made only when a video URL is entered in the admin editor dialog, or when a post containing a [tdslb-movie] shortcode is published/saved.

YouTube

Fetches thumbnail images and video titles via the YouTube oEmbed API and thumbnail CDN.
No personal user data is transmitted; only the video ID is used.
Terms of service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Vimeo

Fetches thumbnail images and video titles via the Vimeo v2 API.
No personal user data is transmitted; only the video ID is used.
Terms of service: https://vimeo.com/terms
Privacy policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy

Niconico (NicoVideo)

Fetches thumbnail images and video titles via the Niconico public API (ext.nicovideo.jp).
No personal user data is transmitted; only the video ID is used.
Terms of service: https://account.nicovideo.jp/rules/account
Privacy policy: https://account.nicovideo.jp/rules/account

Dailymotion

Fetches thumbnail images and video titles via the Dailymotion public API.
No personal user data is transmitted; only the video ID is used.
Terms of service: https://www.dailymotion.com/legal/terms
Privacy policy: https://www.dailymotion.com/legal/privacy