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FancyBox for WordPress

Seamlessly integrates FancyBox lightbox into your WordPress blog: Upload, activate, and you're done. Additional configuration optional.

By colorlibplugins·Images·Free
4.6(92 reviews)
·40K+ active installs·Updated 11 months ago
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As of April 2026, FancyBox for WordPress is a WordPress images plugin with 40K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 92 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.9M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Autoptimize.

4.6/592 reviews
40K+active installs
1.9M+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009

Overview

Seamlessly integrates FancyBox into your blog: Upload, activate, and you’re done. Additional configuration optional.

You can easily customize almost anything you can think about fancybox lightbox: the border, margin width and color, zoom speed, animation type, close button position, overlay color and opacity and even more advanced option like several options to group images into galleries, and more…

By default, the plugin will use jQuery to apply FancyBox to ANY thumbnails that link directly to an image. This includes posts, the sidebar, etc, so you can activate it and it will be applied automatically.

Further Reading

This plugin is developed and maintained by Colorlib. Which is well know for their free WordPress themes. However, now they are looking to extend their presence i…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.692 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Идеальный плагин Fancybox
by Vital_V_G·6 months ago

Замечательный плагин  Fancybox! Легкий, удобный, справляется со своими функциями! Функционал не нагружен всякими ползунками, пикселями, настройками. Установил и пользуешься!

От читателей (подписчиков) моего блога огромный респект!

  • This topic was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by Vital_V_G.
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Perfect!
by joseyaz·9 months ago

It’s lightweight, non-intrusive, and does its job perfectly. Thank you.

Very well
by stsalv·1 year ago·1 reply

That’s what you need

Simple and effective FancyBox
by jellet·1 year ago·1 reply

Maybe one of the simplest and best.

Works great, just missing some functions.
by kozbilek·1 year ago·1 reply

Works great with Avada, but it just missing core function of fancybox, which is fullscreen mode. Other than that, simple and flawless.

Download Trends

Today: 69Yesterday: 75This week: 520Period total: 61K

Compatibility

WordPress5.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5
PHP7.4+ required

Version Adoption

v3.3
76.0%
v3.0
14.7%
v3.2
7.0%
Other
2.3%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

3.3.7 – 07.05.2025

Fixed: Issue with text domain loading too early (translations now load properly on the init hook)
Fixed: Improved HTML sanitization in captions with DOMPurify to prevent XSS while preserving valid HTML formatting

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
3.3.7
Last Updated
May 7, 2025
WP Requires
5.6+
Tested Up To
6.8.5
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
40K+
Downloads
1.9M+
Added
Feb 6, 2009
Business
Free

Tags

imagesphotosfancyboxlightboxpictures

Developer

C
colorlibplugins
11 plugins0.4M+ total installs
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