Title: Gallery Lightbox
Author: GhozyLab
Published: <strong>19 An Lùnastal 2015</strong>
Last modified: 24 Am Faoilleach 2026

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# Gallery Lightbox

 By [GhozyLab](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ghozylab/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gallery-lightbox-slider.zip)

 * [Details](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/#installation)
 * [Development](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gallery-lightbox-slider/)

## Description

WordPress supports image galleries without having to use any plugins. The native
WordPress **image gallery** displays as a grid of image thumbnails. This plugin 
will help you to make the thumbnails in the grid will display the large version 
of the image in lightbox mode on top of the content rather than taking the user 
away from the page easily.

We also provide the best image carousel plugin that will allow you to make your 
default WordPress gallery into awesome image carousel. Just download [Image Carousel Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-carousel/),
install, sit back and enjoy 🙂

With free version you will get the following gallery feature :

 * Extends the default Gallery options
 * Automatically add lightbox to WordPress image galleries
 * Set Slideshow Auto Play
 * Change Slideshow Interval
 * Show / hide Bottom Thumbnails
 * Change Slider Overlay Color
 * Ability to display gallery as Carousel, just install [Image Carousel Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-carousel/)
 * and more free feature will available every release new version

#### Demo with Gallery Block

#### Demo with Classic Editor

#### Recommended Plugins

The following are other recommended plugins by the author:

 * [Best Gallery Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-media-gallery/) – Easy
   Media Gallery is a wordpress plugin designed to display various media support
   including grid gallery, galleries, photo album, multiple photo albums, portfolio,
   photo gallery or image gallery.
 * [Best Contact Form](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-lite/) – The Best
   Contact Form Plugin to create awesome Contact Form in minutes.
 * [Best Image Slider Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-slider-widget/)–
   Easy Image Slider Widget – Displaying your image as slider in widget/sidebar 
   area with very easy. Allows you to customize it to looking exactly what you want.
 * [Best Popup Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-notify-lite/) – The Best
   Notify and Subscription Form Plugin to display notify popup, announcement and
   subscribe form with very ease, fancy and elegant.
 * [Best Image Carousel](https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-carousel/) – Touch 
   enabled WordPress plugin that lets you create a beautiful responsive image carousel.

#### Translation

 * Deutsch / Deutschland
 * Espanol / Espana
 * Francais / France
 * Italy
 * Swedish
 * Bahasa Indonesia
 * Hebrew
 * Malaysia
 * Polish

and many more…

> 
> #### **NOTE**
> 
> If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one,
> you can send [the text of PO and MO files](https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress)
> for [GhozyLab](https://ghozylab.com/plugins/) and we’ll add it to the plugin. 
> You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files
> [Poedit](https://poedit.net/download).

#### Technical Support

If any problem occurs or if you think, that you found a bug please contact us at
[info@ghozylab.com](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/info@ghozylab.com?output_format=md).

#### Gallery Lightbox step by step guide

There are no complicated instructions for using Gallery Lightbox plugin because 
this Lightbox plugin designed to make all easy. Please watch the following video
and we believe that you will easily to understand it just in minutes :

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * On Frontend
 * [[
 * On Backend

## Installation

#### For automatic installation:

The simplest way to install is to click on ‘Plugins’ then ‘Add’ and type ‘Gallery
Lightbox’ in the search field.

#### For manual installation 1:

 1. Login to your website and go to the Plugins section of your admin panel.
 2. Click the Add New button.
 3. Under Install Plugins, click the Upload link.
 4. Select the plugin zip file (gallery-lightbox-slider.x.x.x.zip) from your computer
    then click the Install Now button.
 5. You should see a message stating that the plugin was installed successfully.
 6. Click the Activate Plugin link.

#### For manual installation 2:

 1. You should have access to the server where WordPress is installed. If you don’t,
    see your system administrator.
 2. Copy the plugin zip file (gallery-lightbox-slider.zip) up to your server and unzip
    it somewhere on the file system.
 3. Copy the “gallery-lightbox-slider” folder into the /wp-content/plugins directory
    of your WordPress installation.
 4. Login to your website and go to the Plugins section of your admin panel.
 5. Look for “Gallery Lightbox” and click Activate.

## FAQ

### How to use Gallery Lightbox Plugin?

There are no complicated instructions for using Gallery Lightbox plugin because 
this Lightbox plugin designed to make all easy. Please watch the following video
and we believe that you will easily to understand it just in minutes :

This is for WordPress with Gallery Block

This is for WordPress with Classic Editor

### How can I get support?

 * We are not able to provide anything other than community based support for Gallery
   Lightbox Plugin.

### How can I say thanks?

 * Just recommend our plugin to your friends! or
 * If you really love Gallery Lightbox Plugin any donation would be appreciated!
   It helps to continue the development and support of the plugin.
    But seriously,
   I just want to drink coffee for free, so help a developer out. You can use this
   link [Donate to Gallery Lightbox](https://plasso.co/donate@ghozylab.com).

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3e5408dba75118663ba5f4bff6155ff5ac757fb21e90ad17cb41153744b871ea?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Simple and easy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-and-essy/)󠁿

 [Tapio Heiskanen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oh2th/) 22 An t-Iuchar 2025

If it would only apply automatically on pages/posts created from the mobile app.
Now one needs to go afterwards frome the web to switch lightbox on.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ad310878ac850690838f461d35ae43bdecf28ed31581539e07311bd9c3862e68?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Merci](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/merci-111/)󠁿

 [acrolepia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/acrolepia/) 8 An Gearran 2025

Merci

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[This is plugin works perfectly. Thanks.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-is-plugin-works-perfectly-thanks/)󠁿

 [pfl34](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pfl34/) 27 Am Faoilleach 2025

This is plugin works perfectly. Thanks.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9618532f08449f05a6d29d7dd71eb7644b5132cea4e46a10396a1bf07c62826c?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesn’t work with WP tiled galleries](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-with-wp-tiled-galleries/)󠁿

 [tuicreations](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tuicreations/) 4 An Cèitean 2024

Doesn’t work with WP tiled galleries.Reached out to support and got no reply at 
all so deleting the plugin and finding another one that will work or at that least
has support that actually replies

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/223f4d95f9825c71ed3bddf97291cee3e5b8e24315bf05a0c6cec2ae8514c77a?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[there’s no point to comparing – Gallery Lightbox much beatter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theres-no-point-to-comparing-gallery-lightbox-much-beatter/)󠁿

 [rksgdynia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rksgdynia/) 30 An Giblean 2024

I installed a different gallery – there’s no point in comparing it – Gallery Lightbox
is much better

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2ada2ea03acc0574b1d75644d1854a94d81f3137a1ef033db775a06d032e12ee?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Outstanding out of the box](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outstanding-out-of-the-box/)󠁿

 [cocoamelody](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cocoamelody/) 8 Am Faoilleach 2024

Just went through 5 other plugins that were utterly useless. THANK YOU.

 [ Read all 105 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gallery-lightbox-slider/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Gallery Lightbox” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ GhozyLab ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ghozylab/)

“Gallery Lightbox” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Gallery Lightbox” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gallery-lightbox-slider/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gallery-lightbox-slider/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gallery-lightbox-slider/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gallery-lightbox-slider/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0.43

 * Update : WordPress 6.9 compatibility
 * Update : PHP 8.5 compatibility
 * Fixed : XSS issue, thanks to patchstack.com
 * Fixed : Many other PHP and CSS clean and optimization

#### 1.0.0.41

 * Fixed : XSS issue, thanks to patchstack.com

#### 1.0.0.39

 * Fixed : Compatibility issue with new Gallery Block
 * Update : WordPress 6.3 compatibility

#### 1.0.0.37

 * Fixed : Javascript issue in frontend
 * Update : WordPress 5.5 compatibility

#### 1.0.0.35

 * Tweak : Replace selectbox (dropdown mode) with button animation in gallery settings
   page
 * Fixed : Wrong plugin name in PHP variable
 * Fixed : Many other PHP and CSS clean and optimization

#### 1.0.0.33

 * Fixed : RTL language issue
 * Fixed : jQuery selector for several markup, thanks to @ov3rfly
 * Fixed : Many other PHP and CSS clean and optimization

#### 1.0.0.31

 * Tweak : Compatibility with the latest Image Carousel plugin

#### 1.0.0.30

 * Tweak : Gutenberg Gallery Block compatibility

#### 1.0.0.29

 * New : Malaysia Language ( ms_MY )
 * Timestamp : none
 * Update : WordPress 4.8 compatibility

#### 1.0.0.27

 * Update : POT file and all Languages
 * Timestamp : 03/13/16 00:01:17

#### 1.0.0.25

 * Added : New Option to Enable / Disable Lightbox Fancy Caption
 * Timestamp : 02/06/16 17:14:18

#### 1.0.0.23

 * Tweak : Free Plugins Page styles
 * Timestamp : 02/01/16 08:58:12

#### 1.0.0.21

 * Tweak : Retrieving Premium and Free plugin page via AJAX to speed page load
 * Timestamp : 01/29/16 08:16:55

#### 1.0.0.19

 * Tweak : Update Lightbox selector to make it compatible with custom link feature
   from Image Carousel Plugin ( version 1.0.0.15 ) that will released within a few
   days
 * Timestamp : 01/28/16 14:24:02

#### 1.0.0.17

 * Added : New Option to show/hide thumbnails caption
 * Timestamp : 01/24/16 07:29:30

#### 1.0.0.15

 * Tweak : Settings Link in plugin list
 * Timestamp : 01/17/16 15:06:04

#### 1.0.0.11

 * Tweak : Move admin notice from Documentation Tab to Settings Tab
 * Timestamp : 01/08/16 16:23:05

#### 1.0.0.10

 * Tweak : Documentation Page
 * Timestamp : 01/06/16 15:10:40

#### 1.0.0.9

 * Fixed : Thickbox ( add_thickbox ) issue on Free Install Plugins Page
 * Timestamp : 12/17/15 13:19:48

#### 1.0.0.7

 * New : Language ( he_IL )
 * Fixed : Slider interval from 1 seconds to 3 seconds when interval not set
 * Timestamp : 11/25/15 01:50:20

#### 1.0.0.5

 * New : Language ( sv_SE )
 * Timestamp : 11/06/15 10:37:57

#### 1.0.0.3

 * Tweak : Change text domain to plugin slug
 * Timestamp : 10/01/15 12:10:50

#### 1.0.0.1

 * Fixed : Many other PHP and CSS clean and optimization
 * Timestamp : 09/04/15 23:15:44

#### 1.0.0.0

 * This is the launch version. No changes yet.
 * Timestamp : 08/19/15 12:07:22

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0.43**
 *  Last updated **3 mìosan ago**
 *  Active installations **10,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  Languages
 * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/),
   [Czech](https://cs.wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/),
   [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/), and [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider)
 * Tags
 * [gallery](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gallery/)[gallery lightbox](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gallery-lightbox/)
   [image lightbox](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/image-lightbox/)[image slider](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/image-slider/)
   [slider](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/slider/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://gd.wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  91 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gallery-lightbox-slider/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  8 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gallery-lightbox-slider/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  2 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gallery-lightbox-slider/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gallery-lightbox-slider/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  4 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gallery-lightbox-slider/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gallery-lightbox-slider/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ GhozyLab ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ghozylab/)

## Support

Issues resolved in last two months:

     0 out of 1

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gallery-lightbox-slider/)

## Donate

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