Responsive Lightbox & Gallery vs Simple Lightbox
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| Feature | Responsive Lightbox & Gallery v2.7.11.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.9/5 Visit Details | Simple Lightbox v2.9.5 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.3/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 100,000+ | 100,000+ |
| Last updated | October 20, 2026 | September 12, 2026 |
| Editions | Responsive Lightbox & Gallery · Responsive Lightbox premium extensions ($) | Simple Lightbox |
| Pros | Eight lightbox scripts to choose from, with per-script settings; Gallery builder with grid, slider and masonry layouts plus block and widgets; Media folders and remote image library built in; No usage tracking | Image links open in a lightbox with no manual coding; Groups gallery and post images into a slideshow; Themes and animations can be set in the admin |
| Cons | Additional gallery types and lightboxes are paid extensions; Extensions page loads its list from dfactory.co; Galleries are a custom post type, so they do not move cleanly to another gallery plugin | Look is set by the bundled themes; Many options to tune on the Appearance > Lightbox screen |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Choice of bundled lightbox scripts, Gallery builder custom post type, Basic grid, slider and masonry layouts, Gallery shortcode and block, Media folders and media tags, Remote image library (Unsplash, Flickr, Wikimedia), Lightbox for WooCommerce product galleries, Gallery and image widgets, Licence keys for premium extensions ($) | Automatic activation of image links, Group gallery images into a slideshow, Group images per post, Lightbox for links in widgets, Lightbox animations toggle, Selectable lightbox themes |
| Integrations | ||
| Storage | Unsplash, Flickr, Wikimedia Commons | — |
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Plugins | WPML, Polylang | — |
| Requires WordPress | 6.4 | 5.3 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 5.6.20 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | www.dfactory.co, api.unsplash.com, api.flickr.com, commons.wikimedia.org | — |
| Blocks | 2 | — |
| Shortcodes | 1 | — |