Description

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.

Screenshots

Lightbox Customization Options
Light Theme
Dark Theme

Installation

Install and activate SLB
Verify that your site’s theme uses the wp_head(), wp_footer(), & the_content() template tags (standard in any professional theme)

FAQ

Get more information on Simple Lightbox’s official page

Reviews

stuartcr སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་པ། 31, 2023

So when i first starting using this plugin it was simple (as the title says), i took it further and created a custom gallery using ACF, at first it didnt work but a fast solid response from the developer fixed it all in a few days!! TAHNK YOU!!!

dorothai སྤྱི་ཟླ་བདུན་པ། 28, 2023

Did not work when I used it for the first time using Gutenberg blocks. My mistake was I did not place the Gallery into the WP-content block. Fixed it worked like charm.

thedoctorcoernel སྤྱི་ཟླ་གསུམ་པ། 24, 2023

I installed it, linked a picture and it worked. I could not find an embed of Google Fonts (using Firefox Inspector) so the GDPR-Complaint seems to be outdated.

3cstudio སྤྱི་ཟླ་གཉིས་པ། 15, 2023

After taking 10 seconds to Install and Activate Simple Lightbox, it was showing the thumbnails’ larger image file in another 10 seconds, complete with caption and grayed-out background content in a slick lightbox — truly “simple”.

Jarda སྤྱི་ཟླ་དང་པ། 1, 2023

Perfect. I have to write a review because it took so little of my time to get it working. Thank you.

mertoncel སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་པ། 16, 2022

This is a very nice working and looking plugin. Thanks

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Contributors & Developers

“Simple Lightbox” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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“Simple Lightbox” has been translated into 17 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

2.9.3

Hotfix: WordPress 6.1 wp_rand() bug (32-bit platforms) (#974)
Update: Confirm WordPress 6.1 compatibility
Optimize: Media item cache key generation
Optimize: Prune build tasks

2.9.2

Optimize: Symbolic link handing for file/directory paths.

2.9.1

Fix: Validate hook priority values (Let’s Getz Prioritized)

2.9.0

Add: Support WebP image format
Add: Support AVIF image format
Add: Documentation link to readme file
Optimize: Code cleanup/refactoring
Optimize: WPCS validation (Phase 1)
Optimize: Activate links after all other filters
Optimize: Plugin metadata retrieval
Update: Confirm WordPress 6.0 compatibility
Update: Build dependencies
Update: GitHub issue templates

2.8.1

Update: PHP 5.6 Compatibility
Add: PHPCS configuration
Add: GitHub Issue templates

2.8.0

Update: WordPress 5.3+ required.
Update: PHP 7.2+ required.
Optimize: Link detection up to 2x faster.
Optimize: Options data handling.
Optimize: Default title filtering.
Optimize: Standardize media item data structure to avoid conflicts with third-party data.
Optimize: Load only necessary media item properties in browser.
Optimize: Filter all media items (instead of each individual item).
- Filter Removed: media_item_properties (single item).
- Filter Added: media_items (all items).
Fix: area elements included in link detection (This is Jim’s Area).

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Great and it works!!

Works perfectly

Installed. Used. Simple!

Fantastic lightbox plugin

It is simple. Perfect.

Very nice