WP ImageViewer
A zooming and panning plugin inspired by google photos for your web images.
4.9(10 reviews)
·700 active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, WP ImageViewer is a WordPress colorbox plugin with 700 active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.1+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: WP Colorbox.
4.9/510 reviews
700active installs
11K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
ImageViewer is an image viewer inspired by Google Photo’s.
It may also look familiar to users of Ebay.com or Tweakers.net.
It provides a modal for images, similar to modals as lightbox, colorbox and fancybox, just in a somewhat more abstract way.
Features
- Smooth dragging and panning images.
- Support touch devices.
- Double tap to zoom in/zoom out.
- Pinch in / pinch out to zoom in/out.
- Snap view for easier panning and zooming experience.
- Exposed API to control zoom programmatically.
Anti-Features
- Clean user interface, no bells, no whistles, no horns.
- Lightweight code (no PHP, 2 JS files and 1 CSS file).
- No settings page (really).
- No database queries.
Upstream Project
You can look at Github for the original code.
This project is integrated in this WordPress plugin and all ready to use…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.0.1
- 2026-02-04
- Fix arrow keys when viewer is inactive.
Contributors
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