radogado

Rado’s Native Lightbox instantly upgrades every WordPress gallery into a beautiful, full-screen lightbox carousel. Just activate and go — your existing galleries are transformed automatically, no shortcodes to learn, no settings pages to configure.
Built on <a href="https://nativecarousel.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Native Carousel</a>, it uses the browser’s own scroll-snapping instead of heavy animation libraries. The result is buttery-smooth swiping on phones, fluid keyboard navigation on desktops, and a total footprint of roughly 13 KB — smaller than a single thumbnail image.
Why this plugin?
<ul>
<li>Zero configuration — activate it and every gallery on your site becomes a lightbox carousel. Deactivate it and galleries revert to normal. Nothing is written to your database.</li>
<li>Truly lightweight — ~13 KB total (JS + CSS). No jQuery, no frameworks, no external requests. Your PageSpeed score stays intact.</li>
<li>Works with any theme — Twenty Twenty-Five, Astra, GeneratePress, or anything else. The plugin bundles everything it needs.</li>
<li>Accessible by default — full keyboard navigation, focus trapping in the lightbox, screen-reader labels on every control, and <code>prefers-reduced-motion</code> support.</li>
<li>Native scroll-snap — hardware-accelerated, 60 fps swiping powered by the browser itself, not JavaScript animation loops.</li>
<li>Dark mode aware — the lightbox overlay adapts to the visitor’s system color scheme automatically.</li>
</ul>
Features at a glance:
<ul>
<li>Full-screen lightbox with swipe, keyboard and mouse-wheel navigation</li>
<li>Compact thumbnail index strip with scrollable overflow</li>
<li>“Thumbnails only” toggle in both the Block Editor sidebar and Classic Editor settings</li>
<li>Endless (infinite loop) navigation</li>
<li>Lazy-loaded images with low-resolution placeholder blur while loading</li>
<li>Captions and alt text fully preserved</li>
<li>Featured-image click opens the matching gallery slide on single posts</li>
<li>Editor performance guard — caps image sizes in the block editor to prevent crashes with large galleries</li>
</ul>
How it works:
The plugin intercepts gallery rendering at display time and outputs <a href="https://nativecarousel.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Native Carousel</a> HTML markup. Your post content is never modified — the transformation is purely visual and fully reversible.
<h3>Third-party source code</h3>
This plugin bundles minified assets from Native Carousel, an open-source carousel component (GPL-2.0-or-later).
<ul>
<li>Homepage & documentation: <a href="https://nativecarousel.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://nativecarousel.com/</a></li>
<li>Source code repository: <a href="https://github.com/radogado/n-carousel" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/radogado/n-carousel</a></li>
</ul>
The following files in <code>assets/</code> are the minified production builds:
<ul>
<li><code>n-carousel.min.js</code> — carousel runtime</li>
<li><code>n-carousel-preload.min.js</code> — image preloader</li>
<li><code>n-carousel.min.css</code> — carousel styles</li>
</ul>
The unminified, human-readable source is available in the GitHub repository linked above. No build tools are needed to work with this plugin’s own code — <code>gallery-lightbox.css</code> and the admin JavaScript files are shipped unminified and readable.
This plugin is also maintained as part of the niui theme project: 
<a href="https://gitlab.com/spacest/niui/-/tree/main/rados-native-lightbox" rel="nofollow ugc">https://gitlab.com/spacest/niui/-/tree/main/rados-native-lightbox</a>

Rado's Native Lightbox

Transforms WordPress galleries into lightweight lightbox carousels. Works with any theme — only ~13 KB.

vlad.olaru

pixelgrade

George Olaru

PixProof is a custom WordPress plugin that is meant to ease the way photographers interact with their clients. It allows you to have a protected straight forward environment to discuss and proof photos from photo shootings, all in a interactive, AJAX based, interface.
PixProof Gallery <a href="http://bit.ly/1m3LmS0" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo #1</a> (use ‘demo’ as password)
It is a simple to use plugin that uses a Custom Post Type called Proof Galleries to help you manage your “clients” galleries separated from other post types you may have around (like regular galleries or projects).
These can be either public galleries (you will use the fact that the URL is not public and provide it only to your client) or password protected galleries (this is the recommended way) and you will provide the URL and the password to your individual clients (you can even make them private galleries – it is up to you).
You can read more about PixProof plugin on this article: <a href="https://pixelgrade.com/docs/timber/pages-and-content/proof-photos-clients/" rel="nofollow ugc">Proofing Photos with your Clients</a>
<h4>Tested with the following WordPress themes:</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://pixelgrade.com/themes/portfolio/timber/" rel="nofollow ugc">Timber</a> by Pixelgrade</li>
<li><a href="https://pixelgrade.com/themes/portfolio/border/" rel="nofollow ugc">Border</a> by Pixelgrade</li>
<li><a href="https://pixelgrade.com/themes/portfolio/lens/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lens</a> by Pixelgrade</li>
</ul>
Made with love by <a href="https://pixelgrade.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pixelgrade</a>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
The proposed value of Open Source is that by freely sharing the code with the community, others can use, improve and contribute back to it.
It’s great if you’re willing to use your skills, knowledge, and experience to help further refine this project with your own improvements. We really appreciate it and you’re 💯 welcome to submit an issue or pull request on any topic.
<h3>How can you help?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Discovered an issue? Please report it <a href="https://github.com/pixelgrade/pixproof/issues/new" title="here" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</li>
<li>Fixed a bug? Send a <a href="https://github.com/pixelgrade/pixproof/pulls" title="pull request" rel="nofollow ugc">pull request</a>.</li>
<li>Need a feature? Propose it <a href="https://github.com/pixelgrade/pixproof/issues/new" title="here" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</li>
<li>Have you made something great? <a href="https://github.com/pixelgrade/pixproof/issues/new" title="Share" rel="nofollow ugc">Share</a> it with us.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
You can translate PixProof on <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pixproof" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wordpress.org</a>.
<h3>Credits</h3>
Unless otherwise specified, all the plugins files, scripts and images are licensed under GNU General Public License v2 or later.
The PixProof plugin bundles the following third-party resources:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/CMB2/CMB2" rel="nofollow ugc">CMB2</a> Metaboxes, custom fields library – License: GPLv2 or later</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jcchavezs/cmb2-conditionals/" rel="nofollow ugc">CMB2 Conditionals</a> plugin for CMB2 – License: GPLv2 or later</li>
</ul>

PixProof – Easy Photo Proofing for Photographers

PixProof allows you to have a protected, straight forward environment to discuss and proof photos from photo shootings.

Rado's Native Lightbox vs PixProof – Easy Photo Proofing for Photographers