fancyBox 3 for WordPress

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1. ★★★★★ richardjamesw

   7.0y ago

   Seems to be the only Fancybox plugin with an option for click to zoom after lighbox has popped up. So glad I finally found one that works! Rich

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2. ★★★★★ abcdefghijklmnop

   8.2y ago

   Works out of the box upon activation with latest version of WordPress (June 2018). Edit: Captions don’t work. 1-2 days after installation, my slider stopped working. I then opened my site in Microsoft Edge to test it. Just before the site loaded, I saw some Russian words appear and then disappear. Immediately uninstalled and everything looks normal right now. Hope this didn’t f*ck my site up. It is the only plugin installed besides the default Hello Dolly and Akismet. Edit 2: 26 Jan 2020. This remains the only plugin installed on my site and so far so good. I am sorry to the developer for the earlier bad review, I honestly thought there was something wrong with the plugin. This topic was modified 8 years ago by abcdefghijklmnop. This topic was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by abcdefghijklmnop.

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3. ★★★★★ makissm21

   8.2y ago

   Thanks for the job.

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4. ★★★★★ Paul Scollon

   8.4y ago

   Some of these fancybox plugins have nearly too many features, which means more things to go wrong. This one just does one thing, and does it well. Got me out of a jam for sure when another similar plugin just decided to start throwing javascript errors all over the console.

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5. ★★★★★ frietsje

   8.4y ago

   Working for a while now with this plugin. Works easy and as you expect. Also fast support!

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6. ★★★★★ springm

   8.5y ago

   This plugin does what it should, and in addition the code is very clear and beautiful, so I could easily patch in a functionality that I missed

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7. ★★★★★ psamathe

   8.8y ago

   Excellent gallery system. Using the standard WordPress [gallery] shorcode means great compatibility and if you do ever change, all your old posts will still work fine. Only reason for 4*s is the need for link="file" in the shortcode – but that’s a minimal issue. Excellent support. Posted question and quickly answered and resolved. (And I regard Fancy Box 3 as massively superior to the previous Fancy Box releases – which I’d never used as I didn’t like them, but version 3 is a massive improvement)

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.3.2

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-06-02 2K+ → 1K+ down after 562 days in tier
2. 2023-11-18 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2023-11-16 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2023-11-15 1K+ → 2K+ up after 21 days in tier
5. 2023-10-25 2K+ → 1K+ down after 3 days in tier
6. 2023-10-22 1K+ → 2K+ up after 6 days in tier
7. 2023-10-16 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2023-10-15 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier

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).

• J jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries 4K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D
• WP Featherlight Disabled 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags C
• C Cleaner Gallery 2K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags D
• WP fancybox 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags C
• Lightbox 600+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
• F FancyBox Gallery 400+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D

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fancyBox 3 for WordPress: 1K+ active installs, 4.9★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/w3dev-fancybox