#257 by installs
Firelight Lightbox
Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups.
- Installs
- 200,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (361)
- Updated
- 26 days ago
LightPress Lightbox
Simple, lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. Formerly the WP JQuery Lightbox.
- Active installs
- 40,000+
- #906 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 922.1K
- 922,125
- Downloads, 30 days
- 4.4K
- 1.4K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5
- 72 reviews
- Last updated
- 7 months ago
- Mar 25, 2026
- Version
- 2.3.5
- 40 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | March 25, 2026Updated in the last year |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 6.9.11Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.0 or newer |
| First published | April 11, 2010 |
| Support, last two months | 0 of 1 threads resolved (0%) |
Reviews
4.6 / 5 from 72 reviews
| 5 stars | 58 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 7 |
| 3 stars | 3 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 3 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
LightPress Lightbox is a popular, very lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. It is active 40,000 websites. After activation, settings will appear under ‘Lightbox’ on your website’s main admin menu, and images and galleries will open in a nice lightbox.
To make images open in the lightbox, you need to set images to “Link To:” media file. For image blocks, this setting is on the toolbar at the top of the block. For galleries, this setting is on the sidebar by other block options.
LIGHTBOX DEMOS
Free Lightbox Demo
Pro Lightbox Demo – Light Theme
Pro Lightbox Demo – Dark Theme
FREE LIGHTBOX FEATURES
– Automatic detection of images and galleries
– Customize colors of lightbox and navigation
– Classic and modern navigation styles
– Option to show info bar
– Option to show title or alt text
– Option to show download button
– Slideshow options
– Keyboard navigation
– And more!
Links:
-> Demos
-> Docs
-> Free Support
PRO LIGHTBOX FEATURES
LightPress Pro is a premium extension for this lightbox plugin that offers:
– Priority support via email directly from devs
– Powerful, Modern Pro Lighbox
– Beautiful, modern full-browser and full-screen ligthbox
– Dozens of customizations options
– Thumbnails within the lightbox
– Toolbar with controls for thumbnails, zoom, slideshow, and more
– Open videos (Youtube, Vimeo, self-hosted)
– Opens PDF files
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Trouble shooting:
If you have problems with WP jQuery Lightbox, please make sure you try these steps before asking for help. If you ask for help and I find any of these steps would fix the problem, I will just link you back here to do the work yourself.
- Make sure your site is not throwing any javascript errors. Use your browsers javascript console to find out.
If you’re running a custom theme:
Can the lightbox display the image description instead of the title?
WP jQuery Lightbox grabs texts from three different HTML nodes;
- title-attribute of link-to-image
- img tag’s title attribute (if 1 is empty)
- img tag’s alt attribute (if 1 and 2 is empty)
- HTML content of .gallery-caption or .wp-caption-text (in that order)
Look at how the default TwentyTwelve theme uses these in its galleries and set up your theme so it outputs what you need in these places.
I can see elements of my site through the overlay
It’s a problem of z-index. Check the z-index property for the problematic elements, and force them to be less than 100. (Thanks dway!)
How do I add images to a post?
Inserting Images into Posts and Pages
How do I create a thumbnail gallery?
Upload images to a post (see previous question) and use WordPress’ built-in gallery shortcode: [gallery link="file"]
Note the link="file" – this is crucial! By default the gallery will link your humbnails to a page displaying your image. With link="file" the thumbnails links
directly to the image files – allowing Lightbox to function.
Must fade-in and animation of all *box-scripts be so slow?
WP-jQuery Lightbox lets you configure the animation duration and disable image resizing from the admin panel. Set duration to 0 to disable animations entirely.
Latest changelog entry
- Fix: Improve gallery grouping attribute handling
- Update: WordPress tested version to 6.9.4
Screenshots
Default frontend appearance.
Tagged
Plugins that share its tags
#328 by installs
Responsive Lightbox & Gallery
The most popular lightbox plugin and responsive gallery builder for WordPress.
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.9 (2K)
- Updated
- 11 days ago
#332 by installs
Simple Lightbox
The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.3 (239)
- Updated
- 49 days ago
The fastest drag & drop photo gallery plugin. Create stunning image galleries, albums, video galleries & lightbox displays in minutes — no coding!
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.7 (1.6K)
- Updated
- 8 days ago
#427 by installs
Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox
A responsive image lightbox for WordPress galleries, WordPress attachments & FooGallery
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 3.9 (95)
- Updated
- 19 days ago
#683 by installs
ACF Photo Gallery Field
A lightweight extension of Advanced Custom Field (ACF) that adds Photo Gallery field to any post/pages on your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 60,000+
- Rating
- 4.0 (29)
- Updated
- 10 months ago
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.