Johannes Kinast

This WordPress Plugin adds a simple & lightweight Lightbox to the standard WordPress Gallery & Image Block. It detects if a post contains a Gallery or Image Block and then loads & initialize <a href="https://github.com/feimosi/baguetteBox.js" rel="nofollow ugc">baguetteBox.js</a>, a pure JavaScript Lightbox script without any dependencies and a modern minimal look.
There is no lock in effect. It does not add a new Block Editor/Gutenberg Block and relies solo on the standard WordPress Gallery and Image Block. You can deactivate this plugin at any time and your Gallery and Image Blocks will work as they’ve done before. Just without the lightbox.
Just one important thing to remember: You always have to select Link → Link to image file or Link images to media file (see screenshots below) for all of your Image & Gallery Blocks to work properly. If you choose None or Link to attachment page it will not work. But that’s fine if you don’t want the Lightbox for a specific Image or Gallery.
Take a look at the <a href="https://youtu.be/qfLOH22cUNM" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube video from Jakson</a> where he reviews this plugin:
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qfLOH22cUNM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<h3>Features</h3>
Here are the features of baguetteBox.js:
<ul>
<li>Written in pure JavaScript</li>
<li>No dependencies (e.g. jQuery)</li>
<li>Image captions support</li>
<li>Responsive</li>
<li>Supports swipe gestures</li>
<li>Around 13 KB, 7 KB gzipped</li>
</ul>
<h3>Works with</h3>
<ul>
<li>Gallery Block (Default Block)</li>
<li>Image Block (Default Block)</li>
<li>Media and Text Block (Default Block)</li>
<li>Gallery (Default Classic Editor Gallery)</li>
<li>CoBlocks Gallery Collage / Masonry / Offset / Stacked</li>
<li>Meow Gallery (+ Gallery Block)</li>
</ul>
Don’t forget to select Link to → Media File for all of your Galleries & Images to work properly.
Notice: At the moment, just Blocks inside a post are supported. Not Blocks in a Widget. You can make it work but have to enqueue the necessary style & script yourself. See FAQ –> How to enqueue the necessary assets (script & style) for blocks outside of posts or for block types that are not supported by default?

Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block

Lightbox for Blocks


This is one of this plugins that improves WordPress with zero effort and a easy minimalistic approach that should be in the core.



Congratulations!


Brilliant and simple solution


My favourite lightweight lightbox viewer closed recently and I needed something to replace it.



This plugin is super lightweight, and has exactly the same admin interface, i.e. nothing to do, just install it and watch the magic happen on existing images and galleries. What's not to like.


A worthy successor to WP Featherlight

Adds a simple & lightweight Lightbox to the standard WordPress Gallery & Image Block. No lock in and no dependencies.

Hiroaki Miyashita

Importance: 
From 0.7.1, the default view changed to Colorbox due to the license regulation by the plugin directory. If you would prefer the prior Lightbox to Colorbox, you need to get the script from the setting page.
The Lightbox Gallery plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox.
<ul>
<li>Lightbox display of Gallery</li>
<li>Tooltip view of caption of images </li>
<li>Displays the associated metadata with images</li>
<li>Divides Gallery into several pages</li>
<li>Extends the default Gallery options</li>
<li>Additional settings are set in the option page</li>
<li>Switch to the Highslide JS display</li>
</ul>
You can also make regular images appear in a lightbox. See Faq.
Localization
<ul>
<li>Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) – <a href="http://www.emmanuelcarvalho.com.br/" rel="nofollow ugc">Emmanuel Carvalho</a></li>
<li>Belorussian (by_BY) – <a href="http://antsar.info/" rel="nofollow ugc">ilyuha</a></li>
<li>Czech (cs_CZ) – <a href="http://blog.vlastenci.cz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Petufo</a></li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) – <a href="http://www.bluebrain.es/" rel="nofollow ugc">Daniel Tarrero</a></li>
<li>Danish (da_DK) – <a href="http://www.clmedia.dk" rel="nofollow ugc">Jacob Voldby</a></li>
<li>German (de_DE) – Michael Wruck and Tacitus Media</li>
<li>Farsi (fa_IR) – <a href="http://webdata.in/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ehsan Razavi</a></li>
<li>French (fr_FR) – <a href="http://www.benletibetain.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">BenLeTibetain</a></li>
<li>Hindi (hi_IN) – <a href="http://outshinesolutions.com/web-hosting/web-hosting-india.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Outshine Solutions</a></li>
<li>Croatian (hr) – <a href="http://aciddot.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tomislav Konestabo</a></li>
<li>Hungarian (hu_HU) – <a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/zsolt.vereb" rel="nofollow ugc">Zsolt Vereb</a> and <a href="http://feriman.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Feriman</a></li>
<li>Italian (it_IT) – <a href="http://gidibao.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gianni Diurno</a></li>
<li>Japanese (ja) – <a href="https://wpgogo.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Hiroaki Miyashita</a></li>
<li>Dutch (nl_NL) – <a href="http://www.peterarends.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Peter Arends</a></li>
<li>Polish (pl_PL) – Otmar</li>
<li>Romanian (ro_RO) – <a href="http://www.jibo.ro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Anunturi Jibo</a></li>
<li>Russian (ru_RU) – <a href="http://www.fatcow.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Fat Cow</a></li>
<li>Slovak (sk_SK) – <a href="http://www.brozman.sk/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Viliam Brozman</a></li>
<li>Swedish (sv_SE) – <a href="http://nemrod.se/" rel="nofollow ugc">Anders Martensson</a></li>
<li>Turkish (tr_TR) – <a href="http://www.dmry.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Hakan Demiray</a></li>
<li>Ukrainian (uk_UA) – <a href="http://wpp.pp.ua/" rel="nofollow ugc">Vitalij Lew</a></li>
<li>Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) – <a href="http://www.inanu.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">leonanu</a></li>
</ul>
If you have translated into your language, please let me know.
Are you interested in other plugins? See the following site <a href="https://www.cmswp.jp/" rel="nofollow ugc">CMS x WP</a>.
<h3>How to use</h3>
How to use this plugin is basically the same as the way to add [gallery] which has been adopted 
by over WordPress 2.5. Lightbox Gallery plugin automatically converted the default view of gallery 
into the lightbox view. Photo captions are displayed as tooltips. Photo descriptions are displayed 
when the lightbox pops up.
<h3>Advanced settings</h3>
There are three additional options to extend the shorttag [gallery].
<ul>
<li>lightboxsize</li>
</ul>
The image size when the lightbox pops up. The default is medium, but you can change to full.
[gallery lightboxsize=”full”]
<ul>
<li>meta</li>
</ul>
Defines whether the exif information is displayed. The default is false. 
If you want to show the photo info, set true. The exif shown on the lightbox includes camera body, 
aperture, focal length, shutter speed, and created timestamp.
[gallery meta=”true”]
<ul>
<li>class</li>
</ul>
Adds a class attribute of the gallery. The default is <code>gallery1</code>.
[gallery class=”gallery2″]
<ul>
<li>nofollow</li>
</ul>
Adds the attribute, rel=”nofollow”. The default is false.
[gallery nofollow=”true”]
<ul>
<li>from, num</li>
</ul>
Defines from which and how many photos are displayed. 
If the number of photos is over that of <code>num</code>, the navigation will be shown. 
You can use the navigation option almost same as the <code>wp_link_pages</code> function.
[gallery from=”5″ num=”10″]
<ul>
<li>pagenavi</li>
</ul>
If you would like not to show the navigation, set <code>0</code>. The default is <code>1</code>.
[gallery num=”10″ pagenavi=”0″]
<ul>
<li>colorbox_settings</li>
</ul>
You can set the additional settings for Colorbox. See <a href="http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Colorbox official site</a>.
[gallery colorbox_settings=”transition:’fade’, slideshow:true”]
<h3>Known Issues / Bugs</h3>
<h3>Uninstall</h3>
<ol>
<li>Deactivate the plugin</li>
<li>That’s it! 🙂</li>
</ol>

Lightbox Gallery

Really, nothing works as expected, looks broken and counter-intuitive. 

It is beyond any definition of bad

The Lightbox Gallery plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox.

Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block vs Lightbox Gallery