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This basic plugin enables the Magnific Popup image lightbox to work with single images within your posts and pages, gallery images using the built-in WordPress gallery and also WooCommerce product images. 
Images within a Gallery will have next and previous arrows. 
You can add an alt attribute to your image, to enable lightbox ‘captions’.
The plugin comes with a Settings page for you to choose options. All are off by default.
Thanks to Dmitry Semenov for the original script and hard work: http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/
Note: This only supports images and not the full capabilities of Magnific Popup.

IW Magnific Popup

Simply put, this plugin works great but could slightly be improved :)
I would love to get in touch with the developer and submit a pull request to improve a few things...



Work as expected

A plugin to include the Magnific Popup lightbox for single & gallery images in WordPress.

Danny Jones

Add a stunning lightbox to your website in seconds with Distinctive Lightbox.
Distinctive Lightbox is a lightweight, so you can expect no bloat here. Build using pure JavaScript, the plugin does not require additional libraries such as jQuery – meaning your users are only served the JS they need.
<h3>Features Overview</h3>
<ul>
<li>Easy to use. The plugin can be activated on any link which leads to an image, or even just links with the class you choose – its up to you.</li>
<li>Works with images & YouTube/Vimeo videos out of the box.</li>
<li>Show you media meta data (image title/description) via user-controllable captions, automatically.</li>
<li>Choose opening/closing/sliding animations to suit your tastes.</li>
<li>Image captions can be positioned to suit your needs.</li>
</ul>
<h3>About the plugin</h3>
As with most good plugins, Distinctive Lightbox was created to fulfil a need we (<a href="https://www.distinctivepixels.com/" title="Distinctive Pixels Homepage" rel="nofollow ugc">DistinctivePixels</a>) had for a bloat-free, simple to use lightbox that works just as well on a desktop as it does in the palm of your hand.
Although a few others offer some good options, we felt we could do better – so here we have our offering.
We wanted the plugin to be as easy to setup as possible, and once its setup, you should be able to forget it. With that the mind we have made the plugin very flexible in how you can turn a regular link into a lovely lightbox.
Want any link which which leads to an image to be a lightbox? No problem! You just want links with a specific class or ID to trigger them? You got it!
The same goes for YouTube/Vimeo links – some other plugins make a fuss over this, or even worse, dont support them! Not here, just like for images, if you want the plugin to sniff out these links and turn them into something pretty – we got you.

Distinctive Lightbox

Add a stunning, yet lightweight lightbox to your site in seconds. Easy to configure via simple settings.

IW Magnific Popup vs Distinctive Lightbox