How to open video Lightbox on page load

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Question:

Support,

I am looking for a solution for displaying a vimeo video in a lightbox that launches with the page load. I am looking at purchasing your commercial version. Is the auto launch feature available or is there additional code I could pay you to develop to accomplish this?

Answer:

You can do it with WonderPlugin Lightbox Plugin.

You can add the following JavaScript code to your page or post:

<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery("document").ready(function(){  
            setTimeout(function() {
                if (wonderpluginLightbox)
                    wonderpluginLightbox.showLightbox(4, 'https://player.vimeo.com/video/1084537', 'Big Buck Bunny by Blender Foundation');
            }, 3000);
    });
</script>
<a class="wplightbox"></a>

You can view the demo page: https://www.wonderplugin.com/wordpress-lightbox/open-video-lightbox-on-page-load/

Here is the definition of the function showLightbox:

function showLightbox(type, href, title, width, height, webm, ogg, thumbnail, description);

Here is the definition of the function argument type:

0: image, 1: Flash SWF, 2: MP4 video, 3: YouTube video, 4: Vimeo video; 5: PDF, 7: Webpage

So if you want to open a YouTube video, you can change the line to:

wonderpluginLightbox.showLightbox(3, 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/j32YM7UvvGk', 'WordPress Carousel Plugin');

Only showing up once

To prevent the lightbox popup from appearing in the current web browser session for the second time, you can use the following code:

<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery("document").ready(function(){ 
 
            var is_popped = false;
            var cookies = document.cookie ? document.cookie.split(';') : [];
            for (var i in cookies)
            {
                var parts = $.trim(cookies[i]).split('=');
                if (parts.length && parts[0] == 'wplightboxpopup')
                {
                    is_popped = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
 
            if (is_popped)
              return;
             
            setTimeout(function() {
                if (wonderpluginLightbox)
                {
                    wonderpluginLightbox.showLightbox(4, 'https://player.vimeo.com/video/1084537', 'Big Buck Bunny by Blender Foundation');
                    document.cookie = 'wplightboxpopup=1;path=/';
                }
            }, 3000);
    });
</script>
<a class="wplightbox"></a>