Easy SwipeBox

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2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

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How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 16 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ moshayesteh

   5.2y ago

   this is useful for podcast site This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by moshayesteh.

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2. ★★★★★ jules22

   5.7y ago

   Thanks for submitting the plugin. Saved me the time of having to enqueue Swipebox into my theme.

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3. ★★★★★ ulfben

   7.6y ago

   Swipebox is a great mobile-first image viewer. This plugin Just Works™, and it has an excellent admin panel exposing all the Swipebox settings. If I had one feature requests, it’s that I’d like photos to be grouped by post, instead of putting every image on the page into the same group. If you are currently using my old WP-jQuery Lightbox, strongly consider replacing it with Easy SwipeBox. It is better maintained, and provide a better experience on mobile devices. Thanks Leonardo for putting this together!

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4. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   8.2y ago

   This integration of the famous Swipebox image lightbox is really sweet, lightweitch and efficient. Works out of the box, mobile friendly and so smooth. Thank you for your awesome job !

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5. ★★★★★ imbecillen

   8.2y ago

   So simple and elegant, yet easy to customise. Works great as a “carousel-lightbox” for all the images in a posts since it goes through them all. Great touch capability and is neat. Suggestions for further development: Click outside image should close box on desktop, at least available. Show image thumbnails in bottom as a carousel, choosable ofc. Add this code to fix the close button position on desktop vs touch media if your page has a vertical scrollbar. The close button is a sprite image and is placed to narrow to the edge on desktop if you got a scrollbar. #swipebox-close { background-position: 5px 12px; } @media screen { #swipebox-close { background-position: 15px 12px; } }

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6. ★★★★★ keppens

   8.4y ago

   This plugin works fine. Consider updating the readme file to declare compatibility with wp 4.9.6

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7. ★★★★★ pecktron2000

   8.5y ago

   This is just what you need to easily add swipe capability to galleries. I use it in conjunction with FooGallery and it works perfectly. Love this one!! Many Thanks to the developer!!

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8. ★★★★★ madhazelnut

   8.6y ago

   I had to do a substitute for Simple Lightbox since that one drove my database nuts with very heavy queries. This one either does it all on the client side, or is otherwise efficient. Good job.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.1.2 Bug fix: Update SwipeBox to fix compatibiliy with jQuery 3.X.X – Use original SwipeBox jQuery plugin 1.5.2 – Check https://github.com/brutaldesign/swipebox . 1.1.2
2. — Version 1.1.1 Bug fix: Update SwipeBox to fix compatibiliy with jQuery 3.X.X – Check https://github.com/mho79/swipebox . 1.1.1
3. — Version 1.1.0 New feature: Added Lightbox Setting Page. Customize the SwipeBox lightbox behaviour. Discover more about SwipeBox options . New feature: Esclude media from autodetection. Exclude some images or videos from autodetection 1.1.0
4. — Version 1.0.2 Bug fix: moved from wp_print_scripts to wp_enqueue_scripts. Better compatibiliy with Soil plugin from Roots. Thanks to Gifford Nowland 1.0.2
5. — Version 1.0.1 Bug fix: better image format detection (jpg -> .jpg). Thanks to jas8522 Updated readme.txt 1.0.1
6. — Version 1.0 Updated SwipeBox to 1.4.1 Bug fix: Added support to UPPERCASE image extension Bug fix: Removed SwipeBox to Youtube User and Channel links New feature: Added admin page for autodetection settings. 1.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.6.2

Translated into 131 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Plus 107 more locales with partial translations.

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-07-04 3K+ → 2K+ down after 2 days in tier
2. 2025-07-02 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2025-06-30 3K+ → 2K+ down after 325 days in tier
4. 2024-08-09 4K+ → 3K+ down after 33 days in tier
5. 2024-07-07 5K+ → 4K+ down after 63 days in tier
6. 2024-05-05 4K+ → 5K+ up after 3 days in tier
7. 2024-05-02 3K+ → 4K+ up after 495 days in tier
8. 2022-12-24 4K+ → 3K+ down after 699 days in tier

Competes with

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Easy SwipeBox: 2K+ active installs, 5.0★ (16 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/easy-swipebox