sandywp / plugins / simple-lightbox

Simple Lightbox

4.3 out of 5 stars. 4.3 239 reviews

The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress

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v2.9.5 100,000+ installs WP 5.3+ PHP 5.6.20+

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What you get inside

3 screens
  • Lightbox Customization Options

  • Light Theme

  • Dark Theme

About this plugin

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.

4.3

239 reviews

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  • 3 ★ 5
  • 2 ★ 3
  • 1 ★ 33

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