Very easy to use WordPress lightbox plugin to display YouTube and Vimeo videos in an elegant lightbox overlay.
As of April 2026, WP Video Lightbox is a WordPress video lightbox plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 67 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.3M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Video PopUp.
The WordPress Video Lightbox plugin allows you to embed videos on a page using lightbox overlay display.
This plugin can be used to display images, flash, YouTube, Vimeo, iFrame etc in a lightbox overlay. The embedded videos can be viewed on iPhone and iPad too.
You can embed a Vimeo video using the following shortcode in a WordPress post or page:
[video_lightbox_vimeo5 video_id="13562192" width="640" height="480" anchor="click here to open vimeo video"]
[video_lightbox_vimeo5 video_id="13562192" width="640" height="480" anchor="http://www.example.com/images/vimeo-thumb.jpg"]
You need to replace the value of “video_id” with your actual Vimeo video ID. When a user clicks on the anchor text/image your vimeo video will pop up in lightbox.
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Works great!
Thank you a plugin that does what it says. Spent almost an entire day trying other ‘Highly’ rated youtube plugins, for them to just not work, crash my site and well tear my hair out [if I had any].
Just wanted to embed a simple video from youtube, got more than I wanted with the lightbox effect, now I’m thinking of all the other ways I can use this and have youtube videos everywhere when personally I don’t care much for youtube, except that it’s a convenient way to upload and store my videos.
Should be improved for mobile a little, but still perfect for me,
Thanks!
We needed a custom button and load image, and open in modal on play. This plugin allowed me to do all of that for our custom field-controlled embeds, but it does not work with the core YouTube block – meaning we can’t use it on posts without building a custom block which we are trying to avoid. Additionally, as other reviewers have said, the mobile modal is still not usable. I understand it may be a PrettyPhoto issue, but it is pretty unacceptable in modern times. These two issues are big ones, and fixing them would make it a 5 star plugin. I’ll be watching for updates!
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| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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