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LightPress Lightbox

Simple, lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. Formerly the WP JQuery Lightbox.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.9
Current version2.3.5
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.9
Minimum stackWP 5.0 · PHP 7.0
Directory statusactive
Last directory update25 Mar 20267mo ago
Active installations40K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.6 / 5 from 72 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records LightPress Lightbox version 2.3.5 as active, updated 7mo ago and tested up to WordPress 6.9.

Overview

About this plugin

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

– Opens content from external web pages

– Create easy modals and popup boxes

– Open image maps

– Flawless on mobile devices

– Hyper fast performance

-> VIEW PRO LIGHTBOX DEMOS

-> GET PRO SUPPORT

Background and Thanks

Special thanks to Ulf Benjaminsson, who created the original WP JQuery Lightbox plugin and maintained it for many years.

Additional Info

Copyright (C) 2010-2023 Ulf Benjaminsson.

Copyright (C) 2023-Present LightPress LLC.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

, 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • gallery
  • image
  • lightbox
  • photo
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.9

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.9.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.9
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.0 · PHP 7.0
Update activity25 Mar 20267mo ago

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