Fancybox slideshows

I first saw the Fancybox slideshow on the WP Bees site, thought it looked quite nice so then did a search. I thought that they were probably using fancybox-for-wordpress but there were 78 other plugins to choose from. Time to take a look at a shortlist of six.

Plugin name and description	Plugin links	Version, total downloads, last update, tested
FancyBox Enables fancybox on all image links including BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, and PNG links.	fancy-box home	1.1.0 280,759 May 12, 2014 3.5.2
Easy FancyBox Easily enable the FancyBox jQuery extension on just about all media links. Multi-Site compatible. Supports iFrame and Flash movies.	easy-fancybox home	1.8.18 3,522,055 January 21, 2020 5.3.2
FancyBox for WordPress Seamlessly integrates FancyBox lightbox into your WordPress blog: Upload, activate, and you're done. Additional configuration optional.	fancybox-for-wordpress home	3.2.6 1,513,300 January 20, 2020 5.3.2
FancyBox Gallery Integrates the FancyBox jQuery plugin to generate dynamic pop-up image overlays for WordPress galleries.	fancybox-gallery home	0.3.2 53,356 August 26, 2015 4.3.22
ZMT fancybox Plugin adds fancybox code to WP header and footer. This plugin is designed for NextGen…	zmt-fancybox home	1.2 3,338 July 30, 2011 3.2.1
fancybox2	No info available

I chose to try: easy-fancybox and fancybox-for-wordpress.

On activation easy-fancybox issued multiple Notices: Undefined index. So I deactivated it and tried fancybox-for-wordpress instead.