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Amit Kumar Singh

Aim of this plugin was to create a simple lightbox, to be used with the images on the post, it helps you add your images as you do now, it will take care of rest of the things. It works transparently without adding any extra work on your part.
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akWPLightbox

It makes all the image in a post that are linked to larger images, to open with lightbox effect.

ulfben

Erick Danzer

LightPress

LightPress Lightbox is a popular, very lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. It is active 40,000 websites. After activation, settings will appear under ‘Lightbox’ on your website’s main admin menu, and images and galleries will open in a nice lightbox.
To make images open in the lightbox, you need to set images to “Link To:” media file. For image blocks, this setting is on the toolbar at the top of the block. For galleries, this setting is on the sidebar by other block options.
LIGHTBOX DEMOS
<a href="https://lightpress.io/free-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Free Lightbox Demo</a> 
<a href="https://lightpress.io/pro-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Lightbox Demo – Light Theme</a> 
<a href="https://lightpress.io/pro-lightbox-dark/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Lightbox Demo – Dark Theme</a>
FREE LIGHTBOX FEATURES 
– Automatic detection of images and galleries 
– Customize colors of lightbox and navigation 
– Classic and modern navigation styles 
– Option to show info bar 
– Option to show title or alt text 
– Option to show download button 
– Slideshow options 
– Keyboard navigation 
– And more!
Links: 
-> <a href="https://lightpress.io/free-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demos</a> 
-> <a href="https://lightpress.io/free-lightbox-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Docs</a> 
-> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-jquery-lightbox/" rel="ugc">Free Support</a>
PRO LIGHTBOX FEATURES
LightPress Pro is a premium extension for this lightbox plugin that offers: 
– Priority support via email directly from devs 
– Powerful, Modern Pro Lighbox 
– Beautiful, modern full-browser and full-screen ligthbox 
– Dozens of customizations options 
– Thumbnails within the lightbox 
– Toolbar with controls for thumbnails, zoom, slideshow, and more 
– Open videos (Youtube, Vimeo, self-hosted) 
– Opens PDF files 
– Opens content from external web pages 
– Create easy modals and popup boxes 
– Open image maps 
– Flawless on mobile devices 
– Hyper fast performance
-> <a href="https://lightpress.io/pro-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">VIEW PRO LIGHTBOX DEMOS</a> 
-> <a href="https://lightpress.io/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">GET PRO SUPPORT</a>
Background and Thanks
Special thanks to <a href="http://www.ulfbenjaminsson.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ulf Benjaminsson</a>, who created the original WP JQuery Lightbox plugin and maintained it for many years.
<h3>Additional Info</h3>
Copyright (C) 2010-2023 Ulf Benjaminsson. 
Copyright (C) 2023-Present LightPress LLC.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

LightPress Lightbox

Simple, lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. Formerly the WP JQuery Lightbox.

akWPLightbox vs LightPress Lightbox