Photo gallery lightbox – 📱 mobile friendly gallery plugin –– Story Show Gallery
Full screen photo gallery lightbox for delightful display of your photos, with a lot of features, fully customizable, free.
4.9(7 reviews)
·200 active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Photo gallery lightbox is a WordPress lightbox plugin with 200 active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
4.9/57 reviews
200active installs
7.5K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Story Show Gallery is a lightbox gallery that focuses on delightful display of your photos in full screen. On mobile phones it can utilize notch area and it works also in landscape mode. SSG supports brand building, optimal placing of captions, social sharing, deep linking, EXIF, etc. It’s free.
SSG works with the standard WordPress gallery and images (classic or Gutenberg blocks) or optionally with galleries made by other plugins. The galleries/images are fully managed by WordPress, Story Show Gallery just displays full size photos in a full screen lightbox (WP doesn’t have a default lightbox).
Story Show Gallery is already set up for standard functionality. But you can customise it with over 50 options – set a watermark, c…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.11.0
hiding of cursor after defined time, setting of captions alignment, tested in WP 6.9
Contributors
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