Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox
A responsive image lightbox for WordPress galleries, WordPress attachments & FooGallery
3.9(94 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin is a WordPress modal plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 3.9/5 rating from 94 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.8M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 8% this week. Support resolution rate: 75%. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
3.9/594 reviews
100K+active installs
75%resolved
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
FooBox adds a lightbox to your WordPress site, so images are loaded in a modal or popup instead of redirecting your visitors away from your site.
Some people often refer to a lightbox as an “Image Zoom” effect. It’s really just a modal overlay or popup that showcases your images.
FooBox was the first lightbox to take responsive layout seriously. Not only does it scale images to look better on phones, but it rearranges it’s button controls to look great in both portrait or landscape orientation.
Add a modal popup to your website images with no setup. FooBox will automatically add modals to WordPress galleries, WordPress images with captions, and attachment images.
Works with most image gallery plugins, but works best with our FooGallery Gallery WordPress Plugin.
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Ratings & Reviews
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FooBox is fantastic
by Ronald Huereca·3 weeks ago·1 reply
FooBox works great ouf of the box (pun intended) and is well-suited for sites that need a quick image lightbox plugin that plays well with others.
The default lightbox theme provided is professionally made and well-suited for showcasing screenshots, portfolio items, photography, and more.
If you need more layout choices and compatibility with even the peskiest lightbox plugins, please check out Pro, as it’s the only license I don’t hesitate to renew.
PHP 8.5 compatibility
by vulpecula·1 month ago·1 reply
The freemium.php file used by this plugin raises php warnings, not safe.
PHP warning: Deprecation: Using null as an array offset is deprecated, use an empty string instead
This should be fixed, thanks
- This topic was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by vulpecula.
Igor
by igormig·3 months ago·1 reply
A simple and convenient plugin. Just what I needed to replace “Image Zoom”, which isn’t updated and doesn’t support modern PHP versions.
Review nag banner keeps coming back
by kpolljonker·11 months ago
DIsmissing it once should be enough, instead it keeps begging me to leave a review. Well here it is: 1 star for constantly annoying me until I went to waste time leaving a review
Brilliant plugin, Thank YOU!
by tasmanianflora·1 year ago
I’ve been using FooBox for several years now and find it a superb plugin for my flora of Tasmania website. Superb and easy to use.
Download Trends
Today: 268Yesterday: 324This week: 2KPeriod total: 229K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.7
94.1%
Other
5.9%
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Changelog
2.7.41
- Updated 19 Jan 2025
- Update : Made sure all plugin check warnings were corrected.
- Update : Updated getting started admin page to include links to homepage and docs.
- Update : Freemius SDK update 2.13.0
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