FCP Lightest Lightbox Plugin

Simple and super lightweight Lightbox for WordPress with gallery navigation support.

Features

• Zero render-blocking tags are added on the page
• Only 0.5 kB is loaded if no linked images found
• Gallery support
• Caching, minifying & combining friendly
• jQuery independent (in case it’s async)
• Responsive
• Keyboard navigation
• Swipe navigation

Demo

firmcatalyst.com/lightest-lightbox

Usage

Starts working just by the plugin activation. Opens linked images in a popup Lightbox by click. Adds arrow navigation, if an image is a part of a gallery or other links sequence.

Development

You can modify the code for your needs, or suggest improvemens on GitHub. It is pretty transparent and well-commented.

1. Install the plugin
2. Activate the plugin

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   Desktop view

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   Mobile view

Waiting for your questions, which you can ask here or via GitHub.

1.4

• Swipe navigation added
• Inlined the inline js
• Improved the siblings search

1.3

• Removed the render blocking css to be loaded by js
• Moved the main js and css away to load only if a linked image is found

1.2

• Optimized to fit WP 5.7

1.1

• Optimized: Gallery & image sequences tracking added

1.0

• Initial release