WP Featherlight - A Simple jQuery Lightbox WordPress Plugin
An ultra lightweight jQuery lightbox for WordPress images and galleries.
WP Featherlight is a WordPress lightbox plugin for adding a minimal, high-performance, responsive jQuery lightbox to your WordPress website. At its core, WP Featherlight is a WordPress plugin wrapper for the Featherlight jQuery lightbox plugin. When installed, the plugin will automatically display all standard WordPress images and galleries in a simple, minimalistic lightbox popup.
In order for WordPress images and galleries to be lightboxed, you need to select the "Media File" option when choosing where the thumbnails should link. You can also select the "Custom Link" option if you make sure to link directly to an image file. This should work for any image file, even if it's hosted on another website.
It's also possible to lightbox videos, iframes, and ajax content with WP Featherlight by adding data attributes to your content. For more details on custom content loadi
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Usage of WP Featherlight - A Simple jQuery Lightbox over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 1 041 to 1 833 — up 792 (+76.1%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 1 833 | +21 |
| June 2024 | 1 812 | +41 |
| May 2024 | 1 771 | +40 |
| April 2024 | 1 731 | +61 |
| March 2024 | 1 670 | +100 |
| February 2024 | 1 570 | +45 |
| January 2024 | 1 525 | +62 |
| December 2023 | 1 463 | +195 |
| November 2023 | 1 268 | +31 |
| October 2023 | 1 237 | +42 |
| September 2023 | 1 195 | +106 |
| August 2023 | 1 089 | +13 |
| July 2023 | 1 076 | +35 |
| June 2023 | 1 041 | — |
Themes used with WP Featherlight - A Simple jQuery Lightbox
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Generatepress |
| 3 | Divi |
| 4 | Structurepress-pt |
| 5 | Corporate-pro |
| 6 | Ed-template-5-child |
| 7 | Ed-template-5 |
| 8 | Brunch-pro-2.0.1 |
| 9 | Secret-garden3 |
| 10 | Astra |
| 11 | Business-pro-theme |
| 12 | Generatepress_child |
| 13 | Shaka-pt |
| 14 | Brunch-pro-2.0.0 |
| 15 | Twentyseventeen |
| 16 | Adrenaline-pt |
| 17 | Mts_schema |
| 18 | Structurepress-pt-child |
| 19 | Divi-child |
| 20 | Ed-template-6 |
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