Shutter Reloaded
Darkens the current page and displays an image (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller (10KB) and faster.
4.3(6 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Shutter Reloaded is a WordPress images plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 143K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 6% this week. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
4.3/56 reviews
1.0K+active installs
143K+total downloads
19 yearssince 2007
Overview
Shutter Reloaded is an image viewer for your website that works similarly to Lightbox, Thickbox, etc. but is under 10KB in size and does not require any external libraries. It has many features: resizing large images if the window is too small to display them with option to show the full size image, combining images in sets, redrawing the window after resizing, pre-loading of neighbour images for faster display and very good browser compatibility.
This plugin offers customization of the colour and opacity settings for the background and colour for the caption text, buttons text and the menu background.
There are options to enable it for all links pointing to an image on your site (with option to exclude some pages), or just on selected pages. It can be enabled only for image links with CS…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
5 YEARS NOT UPDATED AND WORKING FINE
by Prixer·9 years ago
🙂
Broken since 4.4.2
by RosalinaxGirl·10 years ago
Don’t work since 4.4.2 but ok with earlier versions.
Also no support on the forum for this pluggin
Great plugin and easy to use!
by Greg Ross·12 years ago
What more could you want?
It just works!
by jlyoungs·12 years ago
The only caveat is that, for some reason, the background didn’t darken at first. I futzed with it a bit and now it works like a charm. I don’t know what happened, probably because I don’t know what I’m doing. With great plugins like this, I don’t need to. Thank you!
errors CSS3
by cvoydom.in.ua·13 years ago
Checking the validity of the CSS
test results CSS для http://cvoydom.in.ua (CSS3)
Unfortunately, we found the following errors (7)
URI : http://cvoydom.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/shutter-reloaded/shutter-reloaded.css?ver=2.4 (Although I have installed version 2.5)
12 div#shNavBar a img parse error opacity=60)
21 div#shNavBar a:hover img parse error opacity=100)
46 div#shNavBar Свойство user-select there is no : none
70 div#shShutter parse error opacity=80)
116 #shNavBar .srel-d parse error opacity=40)
126 * html div#shNavBar parse error document.compatMode && document.compatMode==’CSS1Compat’) ? document.documentElement.scrollTop+document.documentElement.clientHeight-this.clientHeight : document.body.scrollTop+document.body.clientHeight-this.clientHeight)
127 * html div#shNavBar parse error document.compatMode&&document.compatMode==’CSS1Compat’) ? document.documentElement.scrollLeft : document.body.scrollLeft)
Download Trends
Today: 7Yesterday: 5This week: 31Period total: 934
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.5
91.9%
v2.4
7.0%
v2.1
1.1%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.5
Refreshed to use the updated WordPress API, fix for minor inconsistency in WebKit.
Contributors
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