I’ve installed the Anti-captcha plugin for WordPress to try to cut down on the amount of spam comments I’ve been receiving. If you have trouble commenting, contact me and tell me what’s going on.

The anti-captcha plugin works without requiring any additional user input, so I’m hoping nobody notices any changes…

1. Go to the WordPress admin section and select “Add New” from the plugins menu.

the WordPress plugins menu

2. In the “Add New” section, search for Lightbox 2. You will see a whole page of results, but since we’re just doing a basic installation, install the first one on the list. Click the install link on the right hand side of the page and follow the directions to install Lightbox 2. You should get a page saying “Installation successful”.

Plugin search results

Install the Lightbox 2 plugin

3. Once you have done that, create a new post or edit an existing post. When you insert the image, click the little “upload/insert” button at the top of the editing screen. Upload an image, making sure you select “File URL” rather than the other two options.

Add an image to your post

4. Once you have inserted the image, click on it to open the “Edit Image” dialogue. Choose “advanced settings” and scroll down to reveal the section for advanced link settings. Change the section that says something like “attachment wp-att-159” to “lightbox[GROUP]”. Set group to the same for all the images in the post that you would like to be included in the same slideshow.

Change the image's settings

5. You’re done! Preview or publish the post to see Lightbox 2 in action.

Lightbox 2 in action