Lightbox plugins

Our picks

• OptinMonster

  Service · Paid

  A lead generation service for building popups, floating bars, slide-ins, inline forms and spin-to-win campaigns that grow email lists and reduce cart abandonment.

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• WP Lightbox 2

  Plugin · Free

  20,000+ active installs · Rated 4.4/5 · Updated January 31, 2026

  A WordPress plugin that adds a responsive lightbox overlay to images and photo galleries on your site.

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• Simple Lightbox

  Plugin · Free

  100,000+ active installs · Rated 4.3/5 · Updated September 12, 2026

  A customisable WordPress lightbox that activates image links automatically and resizes the overlay to fit the screen.

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• Carousel by Jetpack

  Plugin · Free

  A feature of the Jetpack plugin that turns standard WordPress galleries into a full-screen photo viewer.

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• NextGen Gallery by Imagely

  Plugin · Paid

  A long-standing WordPress gallery plugin from Imagely for managing and displaying photo collections.

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• Foobox

  Plugin · Free + paid

  A responsive lightbox plugin for WordPress from FooPlugins that opens images in a popup instead of sending visitors to a new page.

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• WP Video Lightbox

  Plugin · Free

  30,000+ active installs · Rated 4.3/5 · Updated May 20, 2026

  A WordPress plugin for showing videos in a lightbox overlay when a visitor clicks a link or thumbnail.

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• Easy FancyBox

  Plugin · Free

  200,000+ active installs · Rated 4.8/5 · Updated October 5, 2026

  A WordPress lightbox plugin, now called Firelight Lightbox, that opens images, galleries, videos, PDFs, maps and modals in an overlay instead of a new page.

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• Responsive Lightbox & Gallery

  Plugin · Free + paid

  100,000+ active installs · Rated 4.9/5 · Updated October 20, 2026

  A plugin combining a drag-and-drop gallery builder with lightbox effects for images on a WordPress site.

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