12 Best WordPress Lightbox Plugins
Enhance image presentation with professional WordPress lightbox plugins. Add popup galleries, zoom effects, and responsive image viewing capabilities.
Firelight Lightbox
Active Installations: 200,000+
280 ratings
Updated: 12/8/2024
Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups.
Responsive Lightbox & Gallery
Active Installations: 100,000+
1,965 ratings
Updated: 2/18/2025
The most popular lightbox plugin and responsive gallery builder for WordPress.
Simple Lightbox
Active Installations: 100,000+
235 ratings
Updated: 7/15/2024
The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress
Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox
Active Installations: 100,000+
89 ratings
Updated: 1/27/2025
A responsive image lightbox for WordPress galleries, WordPress attachments & FooGallery
WP Photo Album Plus
Active Installations: 10,000+
200 ratings
Updated: 3/28/2025
This plugin is more than just a photo album plugin, it is a complete, highly customizable multimedia cms and display system.
Gallery Blocks with Lightbox. Image Gallery, (HTML5 video , YouTube, Vimeo) Video Gallery and Lightbox for native gallery
Active Installations: 40,000+
108 ratings
Updated: 2/24/2025
Two in One. Gutenberg gallery blocks (Masonry, Justified, Slider, Carousel, Grid) and highly customizable lightbox.
FancyBox for WordPress
Active Installations: 40,000+
89 ratings
Updated: 11/12/2024
Seamlessly integrates FancyBox lightbox into your WordPress blog: Upload, activate, and you're done. Additional configuration optional.
Advanced Responsive Video Embedder for Rumble, Odysee, YouTube, Vimeo, Kick …
Active Installations: 30,000+
168 ratings
Updated: 3/22/2025
Level up your basic video embeds! Advanced features, privacy. Use URLs, Shortcodes or Blocks to customize videos to your needs.
Lightbox with PhotoSwipe
Active Installations: 20,000+
110 ratings
Updated: 12/27/2024
Integration of PhotoSwipe (http://photoswipe.com) for WordPress.
Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block
Active Installations: 20,000+
83 ratings
Updated: 3/24/2025
Adds a simple & lightweight Lightbox to the standard WordPress Gallery & Image Block. No lock in and no dependencies.
Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others
Active Installations: 10,000+
190 ratings
Updated: 3/18/2025
Galleries on steroids! A stylish lightbox & gallery plugin for WP, Flickr, SmugMug and Zenfolio photos and videos.
LightPress Lightbox
Active Installations: 40,000+
62 ratings
Updated: 10/20/2024
Simple, lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. Formerly the WP JQuery Lightbox.
How We Rank Plugins
To determine the Best WordPress Lightbox Plugins we used a comprehensive scoring system that considers multiple factors. We analyze active installations, download counts, user ratings, and rating consistency on a weekly basis. To ensure quality, we only include plugins with a substantial number of reviews. This methodology helps us identify plugins that are not only popular but also consistently reliable and well-maintained.
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