Gallery Lightbox
Gallery - Display your Wordpress galleries in a lightbox easily
4.7(105 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs 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.
4.7/5105 reviews
10K+active installs
0%resolved
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
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 :
- Extends the default Gallery options
- Automatically add lightbox to WordPress image galleries
- Set Slideshow Auto Play
- Change Slideshow Interval
- Show / hide Bottom Thumbnails
- Change Slider Ov…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.7105 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Simple and easy
by Tapio Heiskanen·8 months ago
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.
- This topic was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by Tapio Heiskanen.
Merci
by acrolepia·1 year ago
Merci
This is plugin works perfectly. Thanks.
by pfl34·1 year ago
This is plugin works perfectly. Thanks.
Doesn’t work with WP tiled galleries
by tuicreations·1 year ago
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
there’s no point to comparing – Gallery Lightbox much beatter
by rksgdynia·1 year ago
I installed a different gallery – there’s no point in comparing it – Gallery Lightbox is much better
Download Trends
Today: 57Yesterday: 123This week: 365Period total: 21K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0.0.43
- Update : WordPress 6.9 compatibility
- Update : PHP 8.5 compatibility
- Fixed : XSS issue, thanks to patchstack.com
- Fixed : Many other PHP and CSS clean and optimization
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