WP Lightbox 2 | Plugin Review Network

WP Lightbox 2 is awesome tool for adding responsive lightbox effect for images and also create lightbox for photo album/gallery on your WordPress blog

WP Lightbox 2 is an WordPress lightbox tool for adding responsive lightbox effect for your website images and also create lightbox effect for album/gallery photos on your WordPress blog. Just install and sit back. This plugin enable image overlay Lightbox effect for all the images in your WordPress website. Also our WP Lightbox 2 plugin allow you to configure the lightbox settings. There are a lot of useful setting for this lightbox, that will help you to display lightbox effect in different ways.

This plugin used to add the lightbox (overlay) effect to the current page images on your WordPress blog.

WP Lightbox 2 have a lot of useful features. WP Lightbox 2 features:

= Features of WP Lightbox 2 plugin

Fully Responsive WordPress Lightbox
Easy install and use
Works on all modern browsers
WP Lightbox 2 works perfectly with all versions of WordPress
Group related images in post and navigate through them with ease
Ability to use lightbox in comments
Ability to display download link for images
Ability to change image info position
Ability to reduce large images to fit smaller screens
Ability to set Animation duration
Ability to to type additional text below image info
Ability to change Lightbox Overlay opacity
Lightbox effect for WordPress Galleries
User friendly back-end for WP Lightbox 2 plugin
Tested on popular WordPress themes

This plugin was created by Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin. Check out some of our other products, including Soliloquy - the best responsive WordPress slider plugin, Envira Gallery - the best responsive WordPress gallery plugin and OptinMonster.

Our WP Lightbox 2 is user friendly plugin, but here you can see some frequently asked questions that can help you.

How should I enable WP Lightbox 2

By default the option "Use Lightbox for all image links" is enabled, that's means all the images in your website will display in overlay lightbox.

How can I disable WP Lightbox 2 for certain images

You just need to add rel="nobox" to your image link. Example -

How can I display caption in lightbox

Use the title attribute if you want to show a caption.

Why plugin doesn't work for me

Check the following reasons:

You have changed the plugin folder name to something other than wp-lightbox-2.
The problem is in your WordPress theme. Use another theme, that does not interfere with post/pages images.
You have other plugins that conflict with WP Lightbox 2. Disable your other plugins and see if that helps. If it does, re-enable each plugin, one at a time to see which one is causing the conflict.

Does WP Lightbox 2 work properly in all Browser(Chrome, Firefox, Explorer, etc)

Yes, it does. The problem is in your WordPress theme, mangling image display properties. Use another theme, or change your theme Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

3.0.6.5

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 5.6.
Fix: Fit to screen bug has been resolved
Fix: Close button not shown bug has been resolved

3.0.6.4

Fix: Library was broken, if a user had a select box on their website.

3.0.6.3

Code Rewrite
Added NodeJs and Babel for minifiying the script to reduce script size
Fix: WordPress 5.5 compatibility

3.0.6.2

Add checks for images without rel tags and fix all the things.

3.0.6.1

Prevent double quotes on automatic rel attributes

3.0.6

Fix: WordPress 4.4 compatibility

3.0.5

Fix: WordPress 4.3 compatibility

3.0.0

Created some important changes for Lightbox.

2.28.9.2.1

Fixed: Broken shortcodes with WordPress 4.1 for Lightbox.

2.28.9.2

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 4.1.

2.28.9.1

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 4.0.1.

2.28.9.0

Optimize Lightbox: content grouping support and exclusion performance .

2.28.8.9

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 4.0.

2.28.8.8

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 3.9.2

2.28.8.7

Fixed Image Galary and other HTML issue minor for Lightbox .

2.28.8.6

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 3.9.1

2.28.8.5

Fixed Lightbox Responsiveness Issue .

2.28.8.4

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 3.9.

2.28.8.3

Fixed full screen image close issue for Lightbox.

2.28.8.2

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 3.8.1

2.28.8.1

Fixed navigation Issue for Lightbox.

2.28.8

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 3.8 .

2.28.7

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 3.7.1.

2.28.6.1

Fixed navigation issue (minor release) for Lightbox.

2.28.5

*Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 3.6.1.

2.28.4

*Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 3.6.

2.28.3

Fixed HTML5 Themes support issues fro Lightbox.

2.28.2

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress HTML5 Themes.

2.28.1

Fixed PHP 5 comment bug that got reintroduced into plugin.

2.28

*Use wp_enqueue_scripts instead. Check support thread.

2.27

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 3.5.1.

2.26

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 3.5.

2.25

Compatible Lightboxwith wordpress 3.4.2 (Fixed PHP 5 bug)
Fixed Bug Stopped Working with W3 Total Cache

2.24

Compatible Lightbox with wordpress 3.4.2

2.23

Updated jQuery calls for WordPress Lightbox.

2.22

Fixed one's, that caused a fatal error.

2.21

Image Map fro Lightbox.
Shrink large images to fit smaller screens.

2.2

Bug Fixed Can't install update.

2.1

Default view changed to Colorbox due to the license regulation by the plugin directory.

2.0

List versions.
Works on all modern browsers.
Group related images in post and navigate through them with ease.
Backwards Compatibility.
No configuration required.
5 Inbuilt theme.
Lightbox display of Gallery.

= = First download the WP Lightbox 2 plugin ZIP file. For installing the WP Lightbox 2, please follow these steps

Log in to your WordPress website admin panel.
Then go to Plugins page Add New > Upload Plugin .
Click "Choose file" then select the - WP Lightbox 2 zip file.
Then Install and activate the plugin.
Then, from the left panel of Dashboard, click on the WP Lightbox 2 icon to edit WP Lightbox 2 options.