Image and Video Lightbox, Image PopUp

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 91% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ LunaGraphica

   1.4y ago

   I honestly don’t know what people are complaining about. I installed the free version and it was up and working in minutes. It has all the features I need; I didn’t feel like I needed to pay for the Pro version. I notice that some of the negative reviews use the same wording. I suspect some disgruntled jerk is trying to smear this plugin.

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2. ★★★★★ angelinajaade

   2.1y ago

   I should have read the reviews before I tried it.

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3. ★★★★★ GameYob

   6.3y ago

   This is a very well made plugin. Has lots of customisable options and I couldnt be without it. It pretty much does everything for you, all you do is install the plugin, and add an image or image with a custom url into a page/post, and it does the rest. It will automatically open up the image or video in a lightbox and it looks great. Plenty (loads) of customisation options. Perfect. This topic was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by GameYob.

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4. ★★★★★ vietnamsales

   8.6y ago

   Impossible to make it work. I tried everything. It just doesn’t work, as the dev wants us to believe. Supposedly (because the manual consist in 2 sentences), you just insert an image from the gallery and the plugin takes over. Except, it doesn’t… Too bad, it’s exactly what I needed. Just wasted a couples of hours of my time. Why is it even here?

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5. ★★★★★ majadul

   9.4y ago

   Don’t waste your time. Fail on a lot of levels. First of all, this is a trick to get you to set it up and then be forced to buy the PRO version. This plugin has a lot of features but the free version is impossible to use without upgrading to Pro.

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6. ★★★★★ somedev

   9.8y ago

   Don’t waste your time. Fail on a lot of levels. First of all, this is a trick to get you to set it up and then be forced to buy the PRO version. This plugin has a lot of features but the free version is impossible to use without upgrading to Pro. In fact, there are a lot of features that are forced on in the free version which most webmasters will not want to be forced on, such as downloading the image, and some ridiculous popout effects that broke the lightbox on the page whenever the user selected them during our testing. Also, in the free version, the background color and text color for some attributes are the same color, which means you won’t see the info at all unless you upgrade to PRO so you can change the colors. Also, the free version is supposed to be able to show the image title, but in our testing the plugin had some bugs that it absolutely did not show the title (img title attribute) or the “description” (caption), even though it was set to show the info. So it doesn’t even work for the very basic title feature.

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7. ★★★★★ nene

   9.8y ago

   I understand some features must be on PRO, but not like everything. Free version is more like a demo. Keep it.

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8. ★★★★★ kalmika

   9.9y ago

   The whole support team was fast, helpful and kind! Thanks for all the help! It works just great!

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.4 Image and Video Lightbox, Image Popup <= 2.1.5 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2023-01-23 CVE-2023-24004 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.1.5 Patched in 2.1.6

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Growth timeline

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

1. 2024-10-28 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2024-10-27 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2024-10-24 2K+ → 1K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Video Popup – Video Lightbox for YouTube, Vimeo & MP4 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• ARI Fancy Lightbox – Popup for WordPress 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Ultimate Lightbox 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• Easy Lightbox – Image, Gallery and Video Lightbox for WordPress 1K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags C
• Video Reviews / Video Widget 100+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags C
• P Popup Lightbox 10+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D

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Image and Video Lightbox, Image PopUp: 1K+ active installs, 3.3★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/lightbox-popup