What is Simple Lightbox?

Simple Lightbox is a very simple and customizable lightbox that is easy to add to your WordPress website.

Where can I customize the lightbox behavior?

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)

What are the features of Simple Lightbox?

Some of the features of Simple Lightbox include automatic activation of links, automatic resizing of lightbox to fit in window, customization with themes, mobile-optimized responsive themes, customizable lightbox animations, support for add-ons, support for WordPress image attachment links, support for links in widgets, keyboard navigation, display of media metadata in lightbox, enabling lightbox depending on page type, grouping of image links, and grouping of image links by post.

How do I use Simple Lightbox?

To use Simple Lightbox, you just need to insert links to images/image attachments into your posts/pages. The image will be displayed in a lightbox automatically.

Where can I find more information and documentation about Simple Lightbox?

For more usage tips, you can visit Simple Lightbox's official page at http://archetyped.com/tools/simple-lightbox/. You can also refer to Simple Lightbox's documentation at https://github.com/archetyped/simple-lightbox/wiki for in-depth information on using and customizing SLB.

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Simple Lightbox

The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress

Rating:

4.3

Active Installations:

100000+

Last Updated:

Jul 16, 2024

WordPress Version:

5.3 or higher

Tested up to:

6.6.2

Features Download’s trend Changelog Reviews

Easy Installation

Simply add

Simple Lightbox to your

WordPress website

Author’s Site

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

2.8.1

Update: PHP 5.6 Compatibility
Add: PHPCS configuration
Add: GitHub Issue templates

2.8.0

Update: WordPress 5.3+ required.
Update: PHP 7.2+ required.
Optimize: Link detection up to 2x faster.
Optimize: Options data handling.
Optimize: Default title filtering.
Optimize: Standardize media item data structure to avoid conflicts with third-party data.
Optimize: Load only necessary media item properties in browser.
Optimize: Filter all media items (instead of each individual item).
- Filter Removed: media_item_properties (single item).
- Filter Added: media_items (all items).
Fix: area elements included in link detection (This is Jim’s Area).

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Worked straight out of the box!

By splinter1 on November 27, 2024

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

Brilliant!

Simple Yet Awesome

By skylabb on October 17, 2024

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.

Just fab!

By Marc Bijl (newoceans) on October 8, 2024

That's all I can say: just fab! :-D

Great and it works!!

By stuartcr on October 31, 2023

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!!!

Works perfectly

By dorothai on July 28, 2023

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.

Installed. Used. Simple!

By thedoctorcoernel on March 24, 2023

I installed it, linked a picture and it worked. I could not find an embed of Google Fonts (using Firefox Inspector) so the GDPR-Complaint seems to be outdated.

Fantastic lightbox plugin

By 3cstudio on February 15, 2023

After taking 10 seconds to Install and Activate Simple Lightbox, it was showing the thumbnails' larger image file in another 10 seconds, complete with caption and grayed-out background content in a slick lightbox -- truly "simple".

It is simple. Perfect.

By Jarda (vinitius) on January 1, 2023

Perfect. I have to write a review because it took so little of my time to get it working. Thank you.

Very nice

By mertoncel on October 16, 2022

This is a very nice working and looking plugin. Thanks

Must Be Something I'm Doing Incorrectly

By Andrew Ferguson (ajdferg) on September 29, 2022

I tried to get this to work on a site using the Twenty Twenty-Two theme. Simple gallery containing six images and set to link the images to the media file. Clicking on an image just shows the image, no controls to switch between images.

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