Add responsive lightbox effect to your images, pop up photos and photo gallery in lightbox
As of April 2026, Responsive Lightbox2 is a WordPress images plugin with 300 active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 10K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
Responsive Lightbox2 plugin adds lightbox functionality to your WordPress site. It allows you to overlay images on top of the current page. You can add this lightbox popup effect to your website images, photos, album or even gallery. Responsive Lightbox2 is responsive and works on all modern browsers.
Responsive Lightbox2 is very user friendly so there is absolutely nothing for you to configure in the lightbox settings. All you need to do is install this plugin and add shortcode to a page to create beautiful lightbox popup.
Responsive Lightbox2 plugin is based on the original jQuery Lightbox script developed by Lokesh Dhakar. This plugin makes it possible for users to add Lightbox2 effect to their WordPress sites.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.1.10 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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