WP Lightbox 2
WP Lightbox 2 adds stunning lightbox effects to images and galleries on your WordPress site.
4.4(89 reviews)
·30K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, WP Lightbox 2 is a WordPress image plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 89 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.3M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
4.4/589 reviews
30K+active installs
1.3M+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
WP Lightbox 2 is an WordPress lightbox tool for adding responsive lightbox effect for your website images and also create lightbox effect for album/gallery photos on your WordPress blog.
Just install and sit back. This plugin enable image overlay Lightbox effect for all the images in your WordPress website.
Also our WP Lightbox 2 plugin allow you to configure the lightbox settings.
There are a lot of useful setting for this lightbox, that will help you to display lightbox effect in different ways.
This plugin used to add the lightbox (overlay) effect to the current page images on your WordPress blog.
WP Lightbox 2 have a lot of useful features. WP Lightbox 2 features:
Features of WP Lightbox 2 plugin
- Fully Responsive WordPress Lightbox
- Easy install and use
- Works on all modern browsers
- WP…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Design features not working
by janet4now·5 years ago
The design settings from the admin no longer work. I have a site full of galleries and cannot access the settings to add the next button.
Very annoying. It looks like the plugin was just updated and yet that was not fixed from complaints 4 years ago!
best plugin
by advertare59·5 years ago
thank you for up-dating this plugin. it serves my purposes well, is easy to use and has always been working on all devices.
Broke my site
by Sivustonikkari·5 years ago·1 reply
Very nice to hear this from a customer…
One of the best!
by danjde·7 years ago
I’ve try several “Lightbox plugins”, each of these created me some conflict problems with Jquery template.
Others did not resize on mobile devices.
Others did not allow you to scroll through images.
Others were very complicated to use.
The only one that does not create conflicts, resizes on mobile correctly, is easy to use and is nice to see is this!
Great software, highly recommended!
Nice plugin
by Lohith M·8 years ago
Thanks for the wonderful plugin. It works great!
I am able to make it work rel=”lightbox” to href tag. Its not working for automatically for the linked images.
if you have any solution let me know.
thanks
Download Trends
Today: 116Yesterday: 93This week: 604Period total: 45K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.0
95.6%
Other
4.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.0.7
- Fix: Improved sanitization of plugin settings.
- Fix: Improve escaping of JavaScript output.
- Fix: Add capability check to AJAX settings save.
- Fix: Remove variable variable usage.
- Fix: Remove unused class variables, methods, and hooks.
…and 5 more changes
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