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Firelight Lightbox

v2.3.25

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

by Firelight · Website

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Rank
#257 24h 0 · 7d 1
Est. installs
250,525 High confidence
Total downloads
8.0M all time
Rating
4.8 ★ 361 reviews
Official installs
200,000+ public bucket
Support threads
3 last 2 months
Support resolved
67% of threads
Tested up to
WP 7.1.3 compatibility

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Maintenance & compatibility

18 days ago

Last release

Version
2.3.25
Requires WP
5.0
Requires PHP
7.0
On WP.org since
2010

About Firelight Lightbox

Firelight Lightbox is a WordPress plugin by Firelight, first published on WordPress.org in 2010. It has 200,000+ active installations and 8,034,381 downloads in total, and ranks #257 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Over the past week it climbed 1 place. Users rate it 4.8 out of 5 across 361 reviews. Version 2.3.25 was released 18 days ago, so the plugin is actively maintained. It is tested up to WordPress 7.1.3 and requires WordPress 5.0 and PHP 7.0 or later. In the last two months, 2 of 3 support threads were marked resolved (67%). It is listed under gallery, image, lightbox, modal and photo. Plugins with a similar focus include LightPress Lightbox, Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin and Responsive Lightbox & Gallery.

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