Simple Lightbox

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Simple Lightbox

by Archetyped

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Description

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.

  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

    Lightbox Customization Options

  2. Light Theme

    Light Theme

  3. Dark Theme

    Dark Theme

Get more information on Simple Lightbox’s official page

Does nothing

By paullb on July 24, 2026

Installed. Does nothing. Checked settings.

(This is not a request for support but a review, After this I instlled Meow Lightbox and it worked right out of the box)

Lean easy and looks great

By WebHostPro (dwhswebhosting) on June 7, 2026

I love when an app just works. This was a simple set up and worked right away. I just switched to the dark mode and increased the play gallery function .3 for a faster rotation. Easy peazy, great job!

Works as expected

By speff on May 11, 2026

Exactly what I needed. Don’t know how the other 1-starring people are using it, but I didn’t have any issues

Does not do anything

By Benjamin Stocker (bstocker) on September 12, 2025

Just does not work.

Worked straight out of the box!

By splinter1 on November 27, 2024

Couldn’t be simpler. Downloaded, installed, activated and now all my post images open in a lightbox.

Brilliant!

Simple Yet Awesome

By Skylabb (skylabb) on October 17, 2024

I like the simplicity of the plugin and it works with WP native image block. The ability to automatically group single images on a page or post and browse through them in the model box is great.

Just fab!

By Marc Bijl (newoceans) on October 8, 2024

That’s all I can say: just fab! 😀

Great and it works!!

By stuartcr on October 31, 2023

So when i first starting using this plugin it was simple (as the title says), i took it further and created a custom gallery using ACF, at first it didnt work but a fast solid response from the developer fixed it all in a few days!! TAHNK YOU!!!

Works perfectly

By dorothai on July 28, 2023

Did not work when I used it for the first time using Gutenberg blocks. My mistake was I did not place the Gallery into the WP-content block. Fixed it worked like charm.

Installed. Used. Simple!

By thedoctorcoernel on March 24, 2023

I installed it, linked a picture and it worked. I could not find an embed of Google Fonts (using Firefox Inspector) so the GDPR-Complaint seems to be outdated.

2.9.5

  • Optimize: Parameterize DB queries.
  • Update: Confirm WordPress 6.9 compatibility.

2.9.4

  • Optimize: Escape special characters in DOM attributes.
  • Update: Confirm WordPress 6.2-6.8 compatibility.

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

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