The most lightweight WordPress lightbox plugin...and the featherlight CSS/JS (only 7kb) is automatically disabled unless you manually enable within ea …
As of April 2026, WP Featherlight Disabled is a WordPress image plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 17K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
This minimal WordPress lightbox plugin adds high performance, responsive jQuery lightbox functionality to your images. When standard WordPress images/galleries are clicked, the background fades out into black as images display in lightbox popup. Galleries can be navigated with on-screen arrows, touchscreen swipes, or pressing arrows keys.
In order for WordPress images and galleries to be lightboxed:
– You must select the “Media File” option when choosing where thumbnails should link. You can also select the “Custom Link” option if it links directly to an image file. This should work for any image file, even if it’s hosted on another website.
– Enable on each post by checking “Enable lightbox” on the WP Featherlight settings.
– Yo…
Hooray! Only loads on pages I choose, and not on all pages.
Thank you!
This Plugin makes sense, as you only need to load it, where you need it.
Thanks
This plugin fix conflicts between WP Featherlight and other lightbox plugin especially some gallery plugin. I can activate it upon my need. Nice work.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Plugin was tested in latest WP 6.4.2 and description was updated. More screenshots were added to help customers with the images configuration.
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