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- Installs
- 40,000+
- Rating
- 4.6 (72)
- Updated
- 7 months ago
Firelight Lightbox
Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups.
- Active installs
- 200,000+
- #257 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 8.1M
- 8,050,834
- Downloads, 30 days
- 104.4K
- 9.9K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5
- 361 reviews
- Last updated
- 26 days ago
- Oct 5, 2026
- Version
- 2.3.25
- 94 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 5, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.0 or newer |
| First published | August 6, 2010 |
| Support, last two months | 2 of 3 threads resolved (67%) |
Reviews
4.8 / 5 from 361 reviews
| 5 stars | 328 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 15 |
| 3 stars | 7 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 10 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
NEWS: Easy Fancybox is now Firelight Lightbox. Read about it here.
Firelight Lightbox is the most popular lighbox plugin for WordPress, active on over 200,000 WordPress installations. It adds a lightweight and flexible lightbox for viewing images, video, and other media on your website.
After activation, links to images, galleries, videos, pdfs, maps, modals, etc, will open in a lightbox. Settings will be under ‘Lightbox’ on your main admin menu.
QUICK LIGHTBOX DEMOS
Demos for images, videos, PDFs, maps, and modals/popups:
Free Lightbox Demo
Pro Lightbox Demo – Light Theme
Pro Lightbox Demo – Dark Theme
FREE LIGHTBOX FEATURES
– Automatic detection of images
– Automatic detection of galleries
– Customize options for Lightbox appearance, style, and behavior
– Opens all common image formats including webp and svg
– Opens WordPress core galleries
– Opens videos from Youtube, Vimeo, and Dailmotion
– Opens PDF files (embed with object tag, iframe, external Google Docs Viewer)
– Opens NextGEN galleries (instructions)
– Opens content from external web pages (instructions)
– Create easy modals and popup boxes (instructions)
– Open image maps (instructions)
– Open lightbox from WordPress menu items (instructions)
– Support for Jetpack Infinite Scroll
– Support for WordPress Multsite (see Installation instructions)
Links:
-> Demos
-> Docs
-> Free Support
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Latest changelog entry
- Fix: PHP warning for undefined array key on admin_init and admin-ajax requests
Screenshots
Open an image in the default lightbox. 
Vimeo video in lightbox. 
Youtube video in lightbox. 
Open a modal in lightbox (modal created in block editor).
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.