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Easy Lightbox – Best Image, Gallery and Video Lightbox for WordPress

This plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

Easy Lightbox – Best Image, Gallery and Video Lightbox for WordPress

Description

Easy Lightbox is the Best Image, Gallery and Video Lightbox plugin for WordPress. This plugin will enable a smooth Lightbox in your WordPress website.

You can add Lightbox functionality in images, gallery, and videos very easily.

Features

  • 100% Responsive.
  • Image, Gallery, and Video Lightbox.
  • Auto Lightbox for Gallery.
  • Touch-swipe Supported.
  • Minimalist & Lightweight.
  • All Major Browsers Supported.
  • Easy to Configure and Use.
  • Friendly Support.

If you like this plugin, please give us 5 Star to encourage for future improvement.

Screenshots

  • Image in Lightbox
  • Video in Lightbox

Installation

Installing this plugin as regular WordPress plugin.

After install, you are ready to add Lightbox in images. By default, the plugin auto assign WordPress regular gallery with Lightbox. But, you have to use link to attribute as file. Example this gallery shortcode will auto add Lightbox: [gallery link="file" columns="5" ids="357,356,354,353,352"].

If you want to add a lightbox in single image, you just have to use litebox in your link. Example code: <a href="BIG_IMAGE_LINK" class="litebox"><img src="THUMBNAIL_IMAGE_LINK" alt="" /></a>.

If you want to add lightbox image image set, just use data-litebox-group="galone" in your link. Example code:

<a href="BIG_IMAGE_LINK" data-litebox-group="galone" class="litebox"><img src="THUMBNAIL_IMAGE_LINK" alt="" /></a>
<a href="BIG_IMAGE_LINK" data-litebox-group="galone" class="litebox"><img src="THUMBNAIL_IMAGE_LINK" alt="" /></a>
<a href="BIG_IMAGE_LINK" data-litebox-group="galone" class="litebox"><img src="THUMBNAIL_IMAGE_LINK" alt="" /></a>
<a href="BIG_IMAGE_LINK" data-litebox-group="galone" class="litebox"><img src="THUMBNAIL_IMAGE_LINK" alt="" /></a>
<a href="BIG_IMAGE_LINK" data-litebox-group="galone" class="litebox"><img src="THUMBNAIL_IMAGE_LINK" alt="" /></a>

If you want to add video Lightbox, it is same like single Lightbox. Example code: <a href="YOUTUBE_VIDEO_LINK" class="litebox">Open Youtube Video</a>

Currently this plugin support 4 video sharing websites.

  1. Youtube
  2. Vimeo
  3. Dailymotion
  4. Kickstarter

Contact with us if you are in trouble for adding Lightbox. We’ll be happy to help you.

Reviews

February 3, 2021
I was trying to create a button pointing to a pop-up lightbox with an image from the image gallery. After using some more “famous” lightbox plugins I tried this one and it worked as a charm. The only downfall is that there are no customization options, but I can live with that.
September 16, 2020
Unfortunately, this plugin is way out of date. When you try to use it with links to the video services it converts them all to http links not https. By the looks of it, it also uses embed methods that are no longer supported, at least with YouTube. Looking at the source code it converts the links to /v/ style links not /embed/ ones, so you just get a connection refused error. Seems like it also strips out adding in extra commands to pass to YouTube like rel=0 and similar (although I’m not sure, I think rel in particular doesn’t do anything these days, but all commands are stripped out). It seems that the lightbox it’s based on was last updated in 2014 and is no longer available on the github repo it has in its copyright. Needs an overhaul to be useful again.
June 28, 2019 1 reply
It works with Vimeo, but with YouTube when you click on the link to open the video, you will see a download notice.
March 29, 2019 1 reply
I really like this plugin. It works really easily and makes using Lightbox in WordPress a snap. There are a few small areas where it does fall short. Such as no support for captions on image popups. I was surprised that it was not supported. Also the images don’t transition. they just instantly change from one to another. Being able to fade images or add a transition even by CSS would be a fantastic additions. It is not a total deal breaker but I am considering using another plugin for image series which means some duplication in code bases but image captions and smooth transitions are a must for Lightbox. Thanks to the developer for all of your hard work so far.
January 30, 2018
Хороший, простой плагин! Советую всем.
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Contributors & Developers

“Easy Lightbox – Best Image, Gallery and Video Lightbox for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Change log

1.1.2 – Jan 25, 2024

  • Tested: WordPress 6.4.2 compatibility.

1.1.1 – May 28, 2022

  • Tested: WordPress 6.0 compatibility.

1.1

  • Fix: Loading scripts from unauthenticated sources on SSL server.

1.0

  • First Release