There are many blog posts where we may need to display those huge images, however we can’t display those huge images in full size as they tend to break the design of the whole blog post (ofcourse, it’s actually depends on theme’s design). So, the question arises that what’s the best solution of displaying those huge images and that too without breaking the whole blog post’s design ?

Well the answer to that is you can display a thumbnail of the image or scale the image down to the point that it doesn’t break the design of the blog post and when someone clicks on that image, it get enlarged. By default WordPress does that however, it takes the visitor away from the blog post and display the image only.

So what’s the real solution then ?

There is a wonderful javascript called LightBox and that’s the likely solution to the above mentioned problem. LightBox script allows you to display the larger image in an ajax window. However integrating Javascript’s in WordPress posts isn’t as simple. However, wonderful developer community around WordPress helps us solve this problem without much concern.

Plugins to help you put images with Ajax/Javascript effects:

There are plugins which help you display the larger version of images in a LightBox type Ajax window and here are some of the wonderful plugins by some wonderful developers :

1. Slimbox : It’s an excellent plugin based on Slimbox script. It’s been made smaller in size and gives exactly the same effect which you get in the LightBox script. The plugin is simple to use and by adding small attribution to the image tag, you’ll be able to get the effect.

2. Shutter Reloaded : Shutter Reloaded is similar to Slimbox and offers some good customization. It uses a relatively small javascript as compared to Lightbox script and the script is only 10 Kb large. Some of the features are that it preloads the neighboring images, in case you are trying to display few images in an image set.

3. NextGen Gallery : Without a doubt the best plugin ever made for WordPress. This plugin is a CMS in itself. It acts a complete image gallery for WordPress and if you include some images in a gallery then it can display those images with Lightbox effect.

There are many more plugins which can easily help you in enhancing the blogging experience when it comes to images and WordPress plugin directory is without a doubt has the most comprehensive list of the plugins. Do spend some time over there and you’ll start feeling as if you are master of WordPress.