Simple Lightbox Plugin

Simple Lightbox is a very simple and customizable lightbox that is easy to add to your WordPress website.

Features

Options for customizing the lightbox behavior are located in the Appearance > Lightbox admin menu (or just click the Settings link below the plugin’s name when viewing the list of installed plugins)

• Automatically activate links (no manual coding required)
• Automatically resize lightbox to fit in window
• Customize lightbox with themes
• Mobile-optimized responsive themes included
• Customizable lightbox animations
• Infinitely customizable with add-ons
• Supports WordPress image attachment links
• Supports links in widgets
• Keyboard Navigation
• Display media metadata (caption, description, etc.) in lightbox
• Enable Lightbox depending on Page Type (Home, Pages, Archive, etc.)
• Group image links (play as a slideshow)
• Group image links by Post (separate slideshow for each post on page)

Usage

1. Insert links to images/image attachments into your posts/pages

That’s it! The image will be displayed in a lightbox automatically.

• For more usage tips, go to Simple Lightbox’s official page
• See Simple Lightbox’s documentation for in-depth information on using and customizing SLB.

1. Install and activate SLB
2. Verify that your site’s theme uses the wp_head(), wp_footer(), & the_content() template tags (standard in any professional theme)

1. 

   Lightbox Customization Options

2. 

   Light Theme

3. 

   Dark Theme

Get more information on Simple Lightbox’s official page

2.9.3

• Hotfix: WordPress 6.1 wp_rand() bug (32-bit platforms) (#974)
• Update: Confirm WordPress 6.1 compatibility
• Optimize: Media item cache key generation
• Optimize: Prune build tasks

2.9.2

• Optimize: Symbolic link handing for file/directory paths.

2.9.1

• Fix: Validate hook priority values (Let’s Getz Prioritized)

2.9.0

• Add: Support WebP image format
• Add: Support AVIF image format
• Add: Documentation link to readme file
• Optimize: Code cleanup/refactoring
• Optimize: WPCS validation (Phase 1)
• Optimize: Activate links after all other filters
• Optimize: Plugin metadata retrieval
• Update: Confirm WordPress 6.0 compatibility
• Update: Build dependencies
• Update: GitHub issue templates

2.8.1

• Update: PHP 5.6 Compatibility
• Add: PHPCS configuration
• Add: GitHub Issue templates

2.8.0

• Update: WordPress 5.3+ required.
• Update: PHP 7.2+ required.
• Optimize: Link detection up to 2x faster.
• Optimize: Options data handling.
• Optimize: Default title filtering.
• Optimize: Standardize media item data structure to avoid conflicts with third-party data.
• Optimize: Load only necessary media item properties in browser.
• Optimize: Filter all media items (instead of each individual item).
  • Filter Removed: media_item_properties (single item).
  • Filter Added: media_items (all items).
• Fix: area elements included in link detection (This is Jim’s Area).

See full changelog