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Firelight Lightbox

by FirelightWP on WordPress.org

Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups.

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Open an image in the default lightbox.

Open an image in the default lightbox.

NEWS: Easy Fancybox is now Firelight Lightbox. Read about it here.

Firelight Lightbox is the most popular lighbox plugin for WordPress, active on over 200,000 WordPress installations. It adds a lightweight and flexible lightbox for viewing images, video, and other media on your website.

After activation, links to images, galleries, videos, pdfs, maps, modals, etc, will open in a lightbox. Settings will be under ‘Lightbox’ on your main admin menu.

QUICK LIGHTBOX DEMOS

Demos for images, videos, PDFs, maps, and modals/popups:

Free Lightbox Demo
Pro Lightbox Demo – Light Theme
Pro Lightbox Demo – Dark Theme

FREE LIGHTBOX FEATURES
– Automatic detection of images
– Automatic detection of galleries
– Customize options for Lightbox appearance, style, and behavior
– Opens all common image formats including webp and svg
– Opens WordPress core galleries
– Opens videos from Youtube, Vimeo, and Dailmotion
– Opens PDF files (embed with object tag, iframe, external Google Docs Viewer)
– Opens NextGEN galleries (instructions)
– Opens content from external web pages (instructions)
– Create easy modals and popup boxes (instructions)
– Open image maps (instructions)
– Open lightbox from WordPress menu items (instructions)
– Support for Jetpack Infinite Scroll
– Support for WordPress Multsite (see Installation instructions)

Links:
-> Demos
-> Docs
-> Free Support

PRO LIGHTBOX FEATURES

Firelight Lightbox Pro is an extension for this lightbox plugin that offers:
– Dozens of Pro features for free lightboxes (Fancybox Legacy, Classic, V2)
Priority support direct from developers
New and Powerful Pro Lighbox based on Fancybox 5, including:
– Beautiful, modern full-browser and full-screen ligthbox
– 100+ customizations options
– Thumbnails within the lightbox
– Social sharing for images
– Link direct to images in the lightbox
– “Download image” button
– Toolbar with controls for thumbnails, social sharing, zoom, slideshow, etc
– Open videos
– Open PDFs
– Open popups
– Open inline content and iframes
– Open Google maps
– NextGEN Gallery integration
– Elementor integration
– Perfect on mobile devices
– Optimized lightbox speed

-> VIEW PRO LIGHTBOX DEMOS
-> GET PRO SUPPORT

GDPR / EU Privacy

This plugin does not collect any data or set any browser cookies. The PRO version offers an option to disable the automatic popup after the first visit, which needs a browser cookie. This cookie stores the visitors first website visit timestamp and path on the client side. It is not shared nor is any data stored server side or elsewhere.

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Known conflicts & issues

See Firelight Lightbox Troubleshooting.

Active installations200K+
Weekly downloads
65,419+34.83%
Version2.3.17
Last updated6/13/2025
WordPress version5.0
Tested up to6.8.1
PHP version7.0
Tags
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