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Easy SwipeBox

Easily enable the SwipeBox jQuery extension on all media links. Optimized for responsive layouts and touch devices.

By Leonardo Giacone·Image·Free
5(16 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 years ago
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As of April 2026, Easy SwipeBox is a WordPress image plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 16 reviews. It has been downloaded 34K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.

5/516 reviews
2.0K+active installs
34K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

Easy SwipeBox plugin for WordPress websites gives you a flexible, aesthetic and mobile-friendly Lightbox solution for just about all media links on your website. Easy SwipeBox uses the packed SwipeBox and is multisite compatible.

Main features

  1. Enqueuing of SwipeBox Javascript and CSS files.
  2. Customization of SwipeBox lightbox appereance and behaviour from the Lightbox Settings page.
  3. Autodetection of links to images or videos. You can exclude/include media types from the Autodetection Settings page.
  4. Other geek settings in the Advanced Settings page.

Autodetection

Select one or more options from Autodetection setting page, Easy SwipeBox automatically detects the media type and add class="swipebox" to their links.
Otherwise, add class="swipebox" yourself to make the magic happen.

If you lik…

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Ratings & Reviews

516 reviews
5 ★
16
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Recent Reviews

good addon
by moshayesteh·4 years ago

this is useful for podcast site

  • This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by moshayesteh.
Well Done!
by jules22·5 years ago

Thanks for submitting the plugin. Saved me the time of having to enqueue Swipebox into my theme.

Great!
by ulfben·7 years ago

Swipebox is a great mobile-first image viewer. This plugin Just Works™, and it has an excellent admin panel exposing all the Swipebox settings.

If I had one feature requests, it’s that I’d like photos to be grouped by post, instead of putting every image on the page into the same group.

If you are currently using my old WP-jQuery Lightbox, strongly consider replacing it with Easy SwipeBox. It is better maintained, and provide a better experience on mobile devices.

Thanks Leonardo for putting this together!

🖼️ Swipebox’s best wordpress plugin
·7 years ago

This integration of the famous Swipebox image lightbox is really sweet, lightweitch and efficient. Works out of the box, mobile friendly and so smooth. Thank you for your awesome job !

One of the best lightboxes out there!
by imbecillen·7 years ago

So simple and elegant, yet easy to customise. Works great as a “carousel-lightbox” for all the images in a posts since it goes through them all. Great touch capability and is neat.

Suggestions for further development:

Click outside image should close box on desktop, at least available.

Show image thumbnails in bottom as a carousel, choosable ofc.

Add this code to fix the close button position on desktop vs touch media if your page has a vertical scrollbar. The close button is a sprite image and is placed to narrow to the edge on desktop if you got a scrollbar.

#swipebox-close {
background-position: 5px 12px;
}

@media screen {
#swipebox-close {
background-position: 15px 12px;
}
}

Download Trends

Today: 5Yesterday: 3This week: 35Period total: 2K

Compatibility

WordPress3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 5.6.17
PHP5.6+ required

Version Adoption

v1.1
100.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.1.2 – Major release (26/02/2021)

  • Bug fix: Update SwipeBox to fix compatibiliy with jQuery 3.X.X – Use original SwipeBox jQuery plugin 1.5.2 – Check https://github.com/brutaldesign/swipebox.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Leonardo GiaconeLeonardo Giacone
Plugin Info
Version
1.1.2
Last Updated
Feb 26, 2021
WP Requires
3.0.1+
Tested Up To
5.6.17
PHP Requires
5.6+
Active Installs
2.0K+
Downloads
34K+
Added
Feb 8, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

imagevideogalleryfancyboxswipebox

Developer

L
Leonardo Giacone
2 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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