Grey Owl Lightbox
Responsive lightbox plugin for images, galleries, videos, HTML and AJAX content with JavaScript event support.
5(2 reviews)
·40 active installs·Updated 7 months agoAs of April 2026, Grey Owl Lightbox is a WordPress ajax plugin with 40 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.1+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Top alternative: zipaddr-jp.
5/52 reviews
40active installs
7.8K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Responsive lightbox plugin for images, galleries, videos, HTML and AJAX content with JavaScript event support.
About Plugin
The “Grey Owl Lightbox” plugin is designed to display different content in the lightbox,
For example: image, galleries, videos and other html content.
The plugin is triggering JAVASCRIPT events to control the lightbox via the .JS file
At the core of the plugin is the js library, which works with jQuery, each developer can use events for more features of this plugin. A list and examples of all events are on the documentation page.
First view
Open image in lightbox
to open an image in a lightbox after clicking a button or a link, you need to add a class to the button, which will be used as a trigger in the JavaScript code
Opens gallery in lightbox
to open the gallery…
Screenshots
Ratings & Reviews
52 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.1+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.0 (29/8/2025)
- Bug fixed with resize html content.
- Optimized javascript file
Contributors
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