14 Best WordPress LightBox Plugins Compared - 2024

The Responsive Lightbox plugin is very user friendly and one of the most rated WordPress lightbox plugins. With it, you can use lightbox to display any of your image or video, links and product galleries, there are also custom galleries provided by Jetpack. There is a powerful and easy to use gallery builder so gallery creating and customizing will be a cinch. There are also 3 different gallery templates: Masonry, Slider, and Grid. The Responsive Lightbox plugin also work with the Visual Composer for even more customizing potential. This plugin is jam packed with add ons and extensions to offer you even more flexibility for customizing your lightbox.

The Resposnive Lightbox plugin also comes with:

• WooCommerce product gallery support
• 8 responsive lightbox scripts
• Drag ‘n’ drop image reordering so you can change things up super easily
• Gallery widget
• Gallery picker to insert shortcodes
• You can create galleries from the Media library or Post attached images

The next of our WordPress lighbox plugins is the Simple lightbox. If you are someone who likes things with minimal frills and is into a minimalist style then the Simple Lightbox plugin is right up your alley. With this plugin you can enable the lightbox feature for tons of elements like: posts, pages, menus, home page, categories and tags, widgets and more. You can also create slideshows for your images and control their effects and manage other elements of the slideshows like its transitions, animations and speed. If you want to do even more with this plugin you can have unlimited customizing potential with options from add ons that you can incorporate.

The Simple Lightbox WordPress plugin comes with even more features such as:

• Light and dark skins
• Can show media metadata in lightbox
• Several premium add ons
• Supports links in widgets
• Includes mobile optimized responsive themes
• Keyboard navigation
• Customizable lightbox animations
• Group image links by post

We continue with the WP Featherlight plugin which will add a high performance and responsive Jquery lightbox to your WordPress site. The plugin displays all of your images and galleries in a lightbox popup, so you can sit back and relax while it does the work for you. If you have AJAX content or videos you can also add a lightbox to them should you want. This plugin is super simple and easy to set up , so if you aren’t so tech savvy you have nothing to worry about. All you have to do is install the plugin and then link any images or videos etc. you upload to the Media File option, and that’s it you are done.

The WP FeatherLight plugin has a few more things to offer you, such as:

• It is super light weight so it will not slow down your website
• Comes wth one single lightbox style
• You have the option to disable the lightbox

So if you are looking for something simple and easy to enhance the content of your website you should definitely look  into WP Featherlight.

And we have come to number 5 of our WordPress Lightbox plugins with the Foobox plugin. This is THE plugin to get if you are super into having a plugin that takes its responsive design seriously. This plugin rearranges its button controls to look good on both landscape and portrait orientation and it can scale images by itself so your content will look good on mobile phone screens. With this plugin you have some control over which content and which pages have the elements of the plugin included, if you don’t want the lightbox effects you can choose to disable them. There is a new metabox feature that also now comes with the Foobox plugin.

The WordPress Foobox plugin also comes with:

• A responsive design
• No configuration needed
• Functionality with WordPress galleries
• Works with WordPress captioned images

There is also a Foobox Pro option available should you want to have more features like video support and social sharing.

With this next plugin you may be able to tell what it can do from its name. The WP Video lightbox plugin allows you to embed a video on a page and use the lightbox overlay display. With this plugin you can also display: images, iFrame, Vimeo an YouTube videos, etc. The plugin comes with lots of shortcodes to help set up your site with the different content and videos from various sites. It comes with simple instructions and steps to help you embed these videos. The videos you embed on your site can also be viewed on devices like iPads and iPhones.

More features of the WP Video Lightbox plugin include:

• You can show  description of a popup in overlay
• You can use both shortcode/html code to popup media in lightbox
• The ability to disable a video at the end of a YouTube video
• You can automatically get the thumbnail for your video and embed in lightbox

To learn more about the WP Video Lightbox plugin check out this video!

The ARI Fancy Lightbox plugin is a great choice for anyone that wants to show various types of content in lightbox. This plugin is flexible so your content will be able to be viewed nicely from desktop to mobile. It uses Fancybox popup to give the content on your WordPress site a lightbox effect. You can use it to show Justified Image Grid and Jetpack galleries, PDF documents, videos from YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo etc., images, Google maps links, inline content and more!. This plugin is so easy to use, just install and choose which images you want to have the lightbox effect, there is no need to adjust any code or do anything else.

The ARI Fancy Lightbox plugin has a few more feature such as:

• One click integration with WooCommerce should you want to have an online shopping aspect, or add a WooCommerce plugin
• Support for FooGallery
• Integrates with NexGen galleries
• Supports slideshow mode
• Highly customizable
• Has UI interface to change lightbox styles
• Mobile friendly

The Easy Fancybox plugin gives you a flexible lightbox solution for almost all of the media links on your WordPress website. This plugin uses the updated version of the FancyBox Jquery extension and it can work with WP 3+ multi-site. The Easy Fancybox plugin also supports videos hosted by Youtube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. Once you have activated the plugin you will be able to manage the media lightbox options from the admin page. After activation everything is incredibly simple because all of the links from PNGs, JPGs, and GIFs will be automatically opened in the FancyBox MAC/Gnome-style lightbox which floats over the web page.

The Easy Fancybox plugin comes with many more features to help improve your website like:

• Support for WordPress galleries
• Support from WordPress menu items
• Automatic detection of media files links
• Style choice for the  lightbox overlay and window (like colors and borders)
• Fade or elastic popup effects
• Can support Jetpack infinite scroll

If you are in the market for a very customizable lightbox plugin for your WordPress site then look no further than the Image and Video Lightbox plugin. This plugin is also responsive so it will look great on all different types of devices and various screen sizes. It is also super simple to use, just install and enable it, and use the admin panel for customizing. The Image and Video Lightbox plugin has also been tested on various web browsers and is cross browser compatible. This plugin also works on most of the popular WordPress themes so you don’t have to worry about it maybe not being compatible with your theme.

The Image and Video Lightbox plugin also comes with features such as:

• Overlay transparency
• Ability to customize the popup background
• You can change the font size
• Ability to set count, description and title sections
• Ability to change count text
• Ability to show or hide the control buttons

The jQuery Colorbox WordPress plugin, the 10th of our WordPress lightbox plugins, is a lightbox/colorbox plugin to use with your site. This plugin features 11 different themes for you to choose from and it works right out of the box with WordPress galleries and NexGen gallery. All of the images that you have in your posts or pages can be easily shown in a lightbox or colorbox when the thumbnail, which is linked to the image, is clicked on.

You can also show groups of images as a slideshow, instead of individual entities, within a lightbox or colorbox. Should you want to have certain images on your site be excluded from the effect of the lightbox or colorbox you will need to add a special CSS class for the excluded items. The JQuery Colorbox plugin also comes with loads of different language options to translate your plugin’s content to so people from all over the world can use your site.

The Lightbox CSS3 WordPress plugin is actually rated very highly even though the amount of its user is pretty low in comparison with other similar plugins we have seen. However, the Lightbox CSS3 plugin is a great choice because it has a very high performance and since it works independently from JQuery and Javascript  it is very fast and only uses functions that are native to CSS3. This plugin is also more reliable and works better and faster with mobile devices than other plugins that are dependent on Javascript libraries.

This is a very simple but extremely effective plugin and the Lightbox CSS3 plugin also provides you with:

• A very low memory footprint
• It can work with any embedded image
• Faster than other JS lightbox plugins

Number 12 of our WordPress lightbox plugins list is the WP jQuery Lightbox plugin. This particular plugin is a great and simple alternative to some of the other more complicated lightbox plugin options. It has minimized scripts and light weight functionality so it runs faster and better compared to other similar plugins. This plugin comes with files that are translation ready so if you want or need your site to be in a different language you easily have that flexibility with the WP jQuery Lightbox plugin. It also has an admin panel for any configuration you may want to do.

The WordPress WP jQuery Lightbox plugin also comes with a few more very useful tools, such as:

• Auto boxing of your image links
• An options panel
• Live adjustments to the browser window and orientation of your phone
• Support for WordPress galleries
• Swipe gestures for moving between images when operating your site on a touch screen device.
• Keyboard navigation