Seamlessly integrates FancyBox lightbox into your WordPress blog: Upload, activate, and you're done. Additional configuration optional.
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.
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.
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…
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!
It’s lightweight, non-intrusive, and does its job perfectly. Thank you.
That’s what you need
Maybe one of the simplest and best.
Works great with Avada, but it just missing core function of fancybox, which is fullscreen mode. Other than that, simple and flawless.
| WordPress | 5.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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
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