Firelight Lightbox
Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups.
4.8(331 reviews)
·200K+ active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Firelight Lightbox is a WordPress image plugin with 200K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 331 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.6M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 14% this week. Support resolution rate: 43%. Top alternative: Imsanity.
4.8/5331 reviews
200K+active installs
43%resolved
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
NEWS: Easy Fancybox is now Firelight Lightbox. Read about it here.
Firelight Lightbox is the most popular lighbox plugin for WordPress, active on over 200,000 WordPress installations. It adds a lightweight and flexible lightbox for viewing images, video, and other media on your website.
After activation, links to images, galleries, videos, pdfs, maps, modals, etc, will open in a lightbox. Settings will be under ‘Lightbox’ on your main admin menu.
QUICK LIGHTBOX DEMOS
Demos for images, videos, PDFs, maps, and modals/popups:
Free Lightbox Demo
Pro Lightbox Demo – Light Theme
Pro Lightbox Demo – Dark Theme
FREE LIGHTBOX FEATURES
– Automatic detection of images
– Automatic detection of galleries
– Customize options for Lightbox appearance, style, and…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.8331 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very good
by rugger86·2 weeks ago
Recommend
Doesn’t work with sunshine photo cart
by FinnDorian·1 month ago
I’m using the gallery Plugin “sunshine photo cart” and it does not convert image links into a lightbox gallery. I am sick of using/adjusting 5 different lightbox plugins, because every gallery uses its own…
- This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by FinnDorian.
Increases the value of a photo blog
by Andreas Lanz·1 month ago
The plugin works perfect and with a beautiful, but discreet animation.
I’d prefer having the possibility to force the browser via the settings to show the images in their original size if they are smaller the the screen resolution and not to scale them up. At least I didn’t find a respective position in the very extensive settings section, only for scaling down too big contents…
Perfect
by Kris Townsend·2 months ago
This plugin does exactly what I need it to, simply and reliably. What a boost to my sites!
gut
by dagmarmoreth·2 months ago
alles bestens
Download Trends
Today: 895Yesterday: 1KThis week: 8KPeriod total: 671K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.3
60.3%
v1.8
19.1%
Other
10.8%
v1.9
9.8%
Top Alternatives to Firelight Lightbox
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.3.19
- Fix: Remove unused Fancybox
.oldJS files
Contributors
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