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	1.1.0 281,965 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 3,706,373 March 3, 2021 5.7.2
FancyBox for WordPress Seamlessly integrates FancyBox lightbox into your WordPress blog: Upload, activate, and you're done. Additional configuration…	fancybox-for-wordpress home	3.3.3 1,743,881 July 28, 2021 5.8
FancyBox Gallery Integrates the FancyBox jQuery plugin to generate dynamic pop-up image overlays for WordPress galleries.	fancybox-gallery home	0.3.2 53,696 August 26, 2015 4.3.26
ZMT fancybox Plugin adds fancybox code to WP header and footer. This plugin is designed for NextGen Gallery. You can use multiple galleries on page.	zmt-fancybox home	1.2 3,910 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.