MetaSlider Lightbox – Modals & Lightboxes – Image, Gallery, Video, Slideshow Lightbox
MetaSlider Lightbox is the lightbox and modal plugin for WordPress. Build a lightbox for images, galleries, video, slideshows and more.
4.4(8 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, MetaSlider Lightbox is a WordPress lightbox plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 311K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 12% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
4.4/58 reviews
10K+active installs
100%resolved
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
MetaSlider Lightbox is the lightbox and modal plugin for WordPress. You can use MetaSlider Lightbox to add modal windows for images, galleries, videos, slideshows and more. You can use MetaSlider Lightbox to enhance your MetaSlider slideshows, plus also the media files inside your WordPress posts.
The MetaSlider Lightbox plugin allows you to show a wide variety of media inside a lightbox modal window, including these:
- Images
- Image galleries
- Videos hosted on WordPress sites
- Vimeo videos
- YouTube Videos
- Featured images
- MetaSlider slideshows
You can really enhance your WordPress media with a lightbox. Visitors can view your images or videos and then open them inside a modal. This can make the image or video larger and also darken the background so it’s easier to focus on the media.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
What a joke
by andreadelriva·7 months ago·5 replies
First, It is an add on the should be part of meta slider itself. No reason to have it separated from the other. The crop options are intentionally tweaked to make the image look dumb, and impossible to adjust to a decent view. Solution? upgrade lol
How am I even supposed to consider the premium options, when the basics fail to server its purpose. But hey, nice try.
Installed, and uninstalled right away.
- This topic was modified 7 months ago by andreadelriva. Reason: missing a note
A really useful plugin
by vitralsolutions·8 years ago
I think this plugin is just great. Have support for the most used lightbox plugins and do its job perfectly.
Slider with lightbox
by richardsan·9 years ago
really great work!
Works as Described
by arceoh·9 years ago
Uninstalling this and Metaslider since they forced Extendify into it. Would not recommend to anyone.
Works well!
by bimofix·9 years ago
Thanks a lot for the plugin! Only have a little problem with the image description with the responsive lightbox plugin, otherwise great plugin!
Download Trends
Today: 74Yesterday: 90This week: 594Period total: 70K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.22
47.5%
v1.13
28.4%
Other
12.7%
v2.20
5.8%
v1.11
5.7%
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Changelog
The format is based on Keep a Changelog recommendations
and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
[2.22.0] – 28 Jan, 2026
- FIXED: Fix toolbar icon CSS selector affecting share dropdown icons, #261;
- FIXED: Include the MetaSlider logo, #283;
- CHANGED: Hash URLs, #282;
- CHANGED: Move sidebar setting to a new panel, #285;
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