Simple Lightbox
The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress
4.3(236 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Simple Lightbox is a WordPress image plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 236 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.0M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.3+ and PHP 5.6.20+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 13% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
4.3/5236 reviews
100K+active installs
0%resolved
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
Simple Lightbox is a very simple and customizable lightbox that is easy to add to your WordPress website.
Features
Options for customizing the lightbox behavior are located in the Appearance > Lightbox admin menu (or just click the Settings link below the plugin’s name when viewing the list of installed plugins)
- Automatically activate links (no manual coding required)
- Automatically resize lightbox to fit in window
- Customize lightbox with themes
- Mobile-optimized responsive themes included
- Customizable lightbox animations
- Infinitely customizable with add-ons
- Supports WordPress image attachment links
- Supports links in widgets
- Keyboard Navigation
- Display media metadata (caption, description, etc.) in lightbox
- Enable Lightbox depending on Page Type (Home, Pages, Archive, etc.)
- Group…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.3236 reviews
5 ★
186
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5
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Recent Reviews
Does not do anything
by Benjamin Stocker·6 months ago
Just does not work.
- This topic was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by Benjamin Stocker.
Worked straight out of the box!
by splinter1·1 year ago
Couldn’t be simpler. Downloaded, installed, activated and now all my post images open in a lightbox.
Brilliant!
Simple Yet Awesome
by skylabb·1 year ago
I like the simplicity of the plugin and it works with WP native image block. The ability to automatically group single images on a page or post and browse through them in the model box is great.
Just fab!
by Marc Bijl·1 year ago
That’s all I can say: just fab! 😀
Great and it works!!
by stuartcr·2 years ago
So when i first starting using this plugin it was simple (as the title says), i took it further and created a custom gallery using ACF, at first it didnt work but a fast solid response from the developer fixed it all in a few days!! TAHNK YOU!!!
Download Trends
Today: 580Yesterday: 680This week: 4KPeriod total: 283K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6.20+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.9
81.5%
Other
10.1%
v2.8
8.4%
Top Alternatives to Simple Lightbox
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.9.5
- Optimize: Parameterize DB queries.
- Update: Confirm WordPress 6.9 compatibility.
Contributors
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