About this plugin
FancyBox for WordPress turns the images you already have into a lightbox gallery. Activate it and every image that links to a full-size file opens in an overlay instead of loading a new page — in posts, pages, widgets and the block editor’s gallery blocks, with no shortcodes and nothing to add to your content.
If the defaults suit you, there is nothing to configure.
What you get out of the box
- Click any linked image to open it in an overlay, with the rest of the page dimmed behind it
- Arrow keys, on-screen arrows, swipe on touch devices, and Escape to close
- Zoom, slideshow, thumbnail strip and full-screen controls in the toolbar
- Captions taken from the image title, the block editor’s caption, or a data-caption attribute
- Galleries grouped automatically — everything on the page, per post, or per gallery block
- PDFs, videos and other pages open in the lightbox too
What you can change
Settings live under Settings → Fancybox for WP, split into Appearance, Animations, Behaviour, Galleries and Misc:
- Overlay colour and opacity, padding, border, background colour
- Caption position (inside the frame, over the image, or below it), size and colour
- Opening and transition animations, and their speed
- Close on overlay click, close on image click, zoom on click, mouse-wheel navigation, looping
- Turn the lightbox off on mobile, on WooCommerce shop pages, or on product pages
- Exclude PDF links, or exclude individual images with class="nolightbox"
- A custom jQuery expression if you want to decide exactly which links are affected
Built on FancyBox 3
7. Nothing is loaded from an external CDN, so no visitor data leaves your site. The bundled copy is namespaced ( fancyboxforwp ) so it will not collide with a FancyBox that your theme or another plugin already loads.
Translations
org language packs. org — help for your locale is very welcome.
Contributing
Development happens on GitHub. Bug reports and pull requests are welcome.
This plugin is developed and maintained by Colorlib, who also make free WordPress themes.
If it is useful to you, a review genuinely helps.