Simple Lightbox for WordPress
Provides an easy was to add a Lightbox to Images in Gutenberg image, gallery and Media-with-Text-Blocks. Additionally to Youtube and HTML5 Videos but …
5(10 reviews)
·400 active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Simple Lightbox for WordPress is a WordPress video plugin with 400 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 8.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Top alternative: The Ultimate Video Player For WordPress….
5/510 reviews
400active installs
7.3K+total downloads
4 yearssince 2022
Overview
** !!! Upgrade only if your server uses PHP 8.0++. Do NOT upgrade if it still uses PHP 7.4. !!! **
Provides an easy was to add a Lightbox to Images in Gutenberg image, gallery and Media-with-Text-Blocks. Additionally to Youtube and HTML5 Videos but no other videos. Other video types like VideoPress, Vimeo etc. are currently NOT supported.
The Javascript library fslightbox.js is used for that. You even may use the paid version of fslightbox.js.
Plugin settings are provided by a JSON-file that may be easily changed and backed-up manually (automatically after V2.0.0).
NEW: Added support for the complete HTML-code to the post, page etc. in-between body tags and not only the content. This is an Opt-in. See example settings file in ./settings/plugin-settings-body.json.
The support for HTML5-Vid…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 8.0+ required |
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Changelog
3.2.0
- Added functionality to render the HTML for fslightbox completely on the client side in javascript. Almost same performance for images from the same server. Slower for videos from another source.
- Added the requred *.js and *.css files for that. Tested with local and public version of my sites.
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