As of April 2026, WP Magnific Popup is a WordPress popup plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 16K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 12% this week. Top alternative: Popup Builder & Popup Maker for….
This basic plugin adds the Magnific Popup lightbox script to wordpress site and works with single images, iframe links and dialogs.
All you need to do to use Magnific Popup on a link is to add specific css class to ‘a’ tag. CSS class names can be configured on settings page.
For images you can use alt attribute to add captions.
Thanks to Dmitry Semenov for the original script: http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/
This plugin is only basic version and does not support all features of Magnific Popup yet.
Plugin provides following functionality:
Usage example html:
Usage examp…
No issues. Makes installing Magnific a quick and easy process, what more is there to say?
Very easy to set up. It works well on various screen sizes.
Does exactly what I need it to without being bloated down with options.
An easy way to use Magnific Popup in WP with some useful settings such as ability to choose the CSS class that triggers it.
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 4.6.30 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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