Gallery - Display your Wordpress galleries in a lightbox easily
As of April 2026, Gallery Lightbox is a WordPress slider plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 105 reviews. It has been downloaded 211K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 35% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Smart Slider 3.
WordPress supports image galleries without having to use any plugins. The native WordPress image gallery displays as a grid of image thumbnails. This plugin will help you to make the thumbnails in the grid will display the large version of the image in lightbox mode on top of the content rather than taking the user away from the page easily.
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With free version you will get the following gallery feature :
If it would only apply automatically on pages/posts created from the mobile app. Now one needs to go afterwards frome the web to switch lightbox on.
Merci
This is plugin works perfectly. Thanks.
Doesn’t work with WP tiled galleries.
Reached out to support and got no reply at all so deleting the plugin and finding another one that will work or at that least has support that actually replies
I installed a different gallery – there’s no point in comparing it – Gallery Lightbox is much better
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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