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Rubel Miah

<p>Easy Lightbox is an Image, Gallery and Video Lightbox plugin for WordPress. This plugin will enable a smooth Lightbox in your WordPress website.</p>
<p>You can add Lightbox functionality in images, gallery, and videos very easily.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>100% Responsive.</li>
<li>Image, Gallery, and Video Lightbox.</li>
<li>Auto Lightbox for Gallery.</li>
<li>Touch-swipe Supported.</li>
<li>Minimalist & Lightweight.</li>
<li>All Major Browsers Supported.</li>
<li>Easy to Configure and Use.</li>
<li>Friendly Support.</li>
</ul>


Easy Lightbox – Image, Gallery and Video Lightbox for WordPress

Excellent plugin

Unfortunately, this plugin is way out of date. When you try to use it with links to the video services it converts them all to http links not https. 

By the looks of it, it also uses embed methods that are no longer supported, at least with YouTube. Looking at the source code it converts the links to /v/ style links not /embed/ ones, so you just get a connection refused error.

Seems like it also strips out adding in extra commands to pass to YouTube like rel=0 and similar (although I'm not sure, I think rel in particular doesn't do anything these days, but all commands are stripped out).

It seems that the lightbox it's based on was last updated in 2014 and is no longer available on the github repo it has in its copyright. 

Needs an overhaul to be useful again.

out of date for video embeds

Easy Lightbox is an Image, Gallery and Video Lightbox plugin for WordPress. This plugin will enable a smooth Lightbox in your WordPress website.

Rustaurius

EtoileWebDesign

<p><a href="https://www.etoilewebdesign.com/ultimate-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ultimate Lightbox Demo</a></p>
<p>Lightbox plugin that lets you add a lightbox to any or every image on your site simply by clicking on a checkbox on the plugin’s options page.</p>
<p><strong>Works with Gutenberg, for both galleries and single images!</strong></p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add lightbox functionality to all images, WordPress galleries, YouTube videos and more!</li>
<li>Add lightbox functionality to images with a specific CSS class, ID or selector</li>
<li>Full set of lightbox controls, including autoplay, zoom, maximize, close, download and more</li>
<li>Optional thumbnail strip underneath the main image in the lightbox</li>
</ul>
<p>For those unfamiliar with lightbox functionality, it is when you click on an image and, instead of opening in a new window, that image opens up in a box that appears as an overlay above your page content. You remain on the page you were on and, once you close the lightbox, you’re instantly brought back to the page. No extra navigating or time lost.</p>
<p>With our Ultimate Lightbox plugin, you can even cycle through multiple images in an open lightbox, which creates a smooth and quick browsing experience for those visiting your site.</p>
<p>You have full control over which images you want to add lightbox functionality to. You can choose to add this lightbox to all images on your site or just to images in WordPress galleries. You can even add a lightbox just to images with a specific CSS class, ID or selector.</p>
<p>With all the features you’d expect from a good lightbox plugin, with the added ability to choose from a wide variety of arrows and icon sets for the navigation controls, as well as a full complement of styling options, Ultimate Lightbox is the only WordPress lightbox plugin you will need.</p>
<h4>Additional Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Choose from an array of different lightbox arrow graphics</li>
<li>Choose from a variety of icon sets for your lightbox controls</li>
<li>Assign specific controls to specific corners of the lightbox screen</li>
<li>Advanced styling options that allow you to modify the color, size and font size for virtually every element within the lightbox</li>
<li>And more!</li>
</ul>


Ultimate Lightbox

I reviewed this plugin, thinking it was working. Alas, it was a different lightbox plugin that I had been trying to get to work and I got confused, likely by a caching issue. Can't delete the review, so the best I can do is ask for you to ignore it. If you're an admin, feel free to delete this review.

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Add a responsive lightbox to any or all images on your site

Easy Lightbox – Image, Gallery and Video Lightbox for WordPress vs Ultimate Lightbox