Simple Lightbox WordPress Plugin
The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress
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 (capt
gallery
images
lightbox
photography
Style
template
theme
Sites running Simple Lightbox, click to open one
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Usage of Simple Lightbox over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 5 861 to 7 607 — up 1 746 (+29.8%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 7 607 | -167 |
| June 2024 | 7 774 | +163 |
| May 2024 | 7 611 | +151 |
| April 2024 | 7 460 | +299 |
| March 2024 | 7 161 | +226 |
| February 2024 | 6 935 | +49 |
| January 2024 | 6 886 | +213 |
| December 2023 | 6 673 | +585 |
| November 2023 | 6 088 | +115 |
| October 2023 | 5 973 | -86 |
| September 2023 | 6 059 | +159 |
| August 2023 | 5 900 | -13 |
| July 2023 | 5 913 | +52 |
| June 2023 | 5 861 | — |
Themes used with Simple Lightbox
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Divi |
| 3 | Twentytwelve |
| 4 | Buildpress |
| 5 | Avada |
| 6 | Twentyeleven |
| 7 | Newspaper |
| 8 | Generatepress |
| 9 | Hueman |
| 10 | Responsive |
| 11 | Twentythirteen |
| 12 | X |
| 13 | Twentyfourteen |
| 14 | Twentysixteen |
| 15 | Astra |
| 16 | Cargopress-pt |
| 17 | Colormag |
| 18 | Vantage |
| 19 | Canvas |
| 20 | Extra |
Sites running Simple Lightbox
All sites in the collection100 examples from the collection. Open any site to see the theme and plugins we found on it.
