How to automatically add rel=”lightbox” to all images (WordPress)

The well known jQuery plugin Lightbox is a very simple way to open images in fancy full-screen boxes. It is very easy to use, but you have to add a rel=”lightbox” attribute to each image you want to open in a lightbox. Here’s a cool code snippet to automatically add the rel=”lightbox” attribute to all images embedded in your posts.

Paste the following code snippet in your functions.php file. Once done, a rel="lightbox" attribute will be automatically added to all images embedded in a post.

add_filter('the_content', 'my_addlightboxrel');

function my_addlightboxrel($content) {

global $post;

$pattern ="/<a(.*?)href=('|\")(.*?).(bmp|gif|jpeg|jpg|png)('|\")(.*?)>/i";

$replacement = '<a$1href=$2$3.$4$5 rel="lightbox" title="'.$post->post_title.'"$6>';

$content = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $content);

return $content;

}

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