WP Colorbox
View image, video (YouTube, Vimeo), page, inline HTML, custom content in lightbox. Add jQuery Colorbox lightbox effect to your WordPress site.
4.3(23 reviews)
·5.0K+ active installs·Updated 7 months agoAs of April 2026, WP Colorbox is a WordPress image plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 23 reviews. It has been downloaded 154K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
4.3/523 reviews
5.0K+active installs
154K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
WP Colorbox plugin is a simple lightbox tool for WordPress. It allows users to pop up content in lightbox using the popular jQuery ColorBox library. They can also view the larger version of a particular media file without leaving the page.
Features
- Beautiful lightbox popup style
- Flexiblity of creating your own lightbox link
- Pop up custom/HTML content in lightbox
- Trigger lightbox from either a text/image link
- Add lightbox to a YouTube or Vimeo video link
- Enable lightbox functionality on your site which supports modern browsers
- Use a simple shortcode to pop up a media file in lightbox
- Apply lightbox effect on images inserted into WordPress post/page
- Open external page in lightbox using iframe
- Responsive lightbox popup which works on mobile devices. Also it fits perfectly on smaller screen…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Best flexible lightbox on the market
by alphaomegawebdesign·3 years ago
I use the colorbox lightbox for many years in my projects and for me it´s still the best lightbox plugin on the market. Its easy to use and very flexible in functionality and design. Really great job. Thank you!!!
Great Text solution
by klstock12·7 years ago
I was looking for a pop-up text solution. This fit it great.
Firefox
by gtwa·8 years ago
Very good but it is not running on firefox and ms edge
Simle and Jump-starting!
by brontho·8 years ago
Many thanks to the plugin developers – you did a great job!
I was able to start enjoying nice lightbox stuff on my website right after I saved my initial Fancybox settings(and no matter what class was attributed to my img links!)
I changes nothing in my php/css, which is so cool. It just works.
That’s fantastic!
Great plugin!
by malagraphicdesign·8 years ago
Works perfectly, thanks!
Download Trends
Today: 17Yesterday: 23This week: 113Period total: 7K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
86.6%
v1.0
13.4%
Top Alternatives to WP Colorbox
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.6
- Removed title option.
Contributors
Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.