Responsive Lightbox & Gallery vs Feeds for YouTube Pro
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| Feature | Responsive Lightbox & Gallery v2.7.11.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.9/5 Visit Details | Feeds for YouTube Pro v2.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Paid Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 100,000+ | — |
| Last updated | October 20, 2026 | — |
| Editions | Responsive Lightbox & Gallery · Responsive Lightbox premium extensions ($) | Feeds for YouTube Pro ($) |
| 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 | List, grid, gallery and carousel layouts; Live stream feeds and single video pages; Stores videos as a custom post type for on-site browsing |
| 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 | Paid licence; updates depend on an active licence; Needs a YouTube Data API key; Sends usage data by default in the Pro version |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | — |
| 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 ($) | List, grid, gallery and carousel layouts ($), Live stream feeds ($), Feed from a search result ($), Videos stored as a custom post type ($), Single video shortcode ($), Elementor widgets ($), Licence key and updates from the vendor ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Storage | Unsplash, Flickr, Wikimedia Commons | — |
| Social | — | YouTube Data API ($) |
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Plugins | WPML, Polylang | Elementor ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 6.4 | 4.1 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 6.4.3 |
| Phones home | No | Yes |
| External services | www.dfactory.co, api.unsplash.com, api.flickr.com, commons.wikimedia.org | reviews.smashballoon.com, www.googleapis.com, plugin.smashballoon.com, connect.smashballoon.com, usage.smashballoon.com |
| Blocks | 2 | 1 |
| Shortcodes | 1 | 2 |