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

  1. Insert links to images/image attachments into your posts/pages

That’s it! The image will be displayed in a lightbox automatically.

  • Lightbox Customization Options
  • Light Theme
  • Dark Theme
  1. Install and activate SLB
  2. Verify that your site’s theme uses the wp_head(), wp_footer(), & the_content() template tags (standard in any professional theme)

Couldn’t be simpler. Downloaded, installed, activated and now all my post images open in a lightbox. Brilliant!

I like the simplicity of the plugin and it works with WP native image block. The ability to automatically group single images on a page or post and browse through them in the model box is great.

That’s all I can say: just fab! 😀

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!!!

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.

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

Contributors

2.9.5

  • Optimize: Parameterize DB queries.
  • Update: Confirm WordPress 6.9 compatibility.

2.9.4

  • Optimize: Escape special characters in DOM attributes.
  • Update: Confirm WordPress 6.2-6.8 compatibility.

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

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