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Firelight Lightbox
Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups.
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- Updated
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Simple Lightbox
The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #332 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 3.1M
- 3,053,941
- Downloads, 30 days
- 11.6K
- 3K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5
- 239 reviews
- Last updated
- 49 days ago
- Sep 12, 2026
- Version
- 2.9.5
- 17 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | September 12, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.3 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.6.20 or newer |
| First published | May 29, 2010 |
| Support, last two months | 0 of 2 threads resolved (0%) |
Reviews
4.3 / 5 from 239 reviews
| 5 stars | 188 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 10 |
| 3 stars | 5 |
| 2 stars | 3 |
| 1 star | 33 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Simple Lightbox is a very simple and customizable lightbox that is easy to add to your WordPress website.
Features
Options for customizing the lightbox behavior are located in the Appearance > Lightbox admin menu (or just click the Settings link below the plugin’s name when viewing the list of installed plugins)
- Automatically activate links (no manual coding required)
- Automatically resize lightbox to fit in window
- Customize lightbox with themes
- Mobile-optimized responsive themes included
- Customizable lightbox animations
- Infinitely customizable with add-ons
- Supports WordPress image attachment links
- Supports links in widgets
- Keyboard Navigation
- Display media metadata (caption, description, etc.) in lightbox
- Enable Lightbox depending on Page Type (Home, Pages, Archive, etc.)
- Group image links (play as a slideshow)
- Group image links by Post (separate slideshow for each post on page)
Usage
- Insert links to images/image attachments into your posts/pages
That’s it! The image will be displayed in a lightbox automatically.
- For more usage tips, go to Simple Lightbox’s official page
- See Simple Lightbox’s documentation for in-depth information on using and customizing SLB.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Latest changelog entry
- Optimize: Parameterize DB queries.
- Update: Confirm WordPress 6.9 compatibility.
Screenshots
Lightbox Customization Options 
Light Theme 
Dark Theme
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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. The author takes donations at their donate page.