radogado

<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Why this plugin?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Zero configuration</strong> — 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><strong>Truly lightweight</strong> — ~13 KB total (JS + CSS). No jQuery, no frameworks, no external requests. Your PageSpeed score stays intact.</li>
<li><strong>Works with any theme</strong> — Twenty Twenty-Five, Astra, GeneratePress, or anything else. The plugin bundles everything it needs.</li>
<li><strong>Accessible by default</strong> — full keyboard navigation, focus trapping in the lightbox, screen-reader labels on every control, and <code>prefers-reduced-motion</code> support.</li>
<li><strong>Native scroll-snap</strong> — hardware-accelerated, 60 fps swiping powered by the browser itself, not JavaScript animation loops.</li>
<li><strong>Dark mode aware</strong> — the lightbox overlay adapts to the visitor’s system color scheme automatically.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Features at a glance:</strong></p>
<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>
<p><strong>How it works:</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Third-party source code</h3>
<p>This plugin bundles minified assets from <strong>Native Carousel</strong>, an open-source carousel component (GPL-2.0-or-later).</p>
<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>
<p>The following files in <code>assets/</code> are the minified production builds:</p>
<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>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This plugin is also maintained as part of the niui theme project:<br />
<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></p>


Rado's Native Lightbox

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

RylanH

<p>The Storyform plugin let’s you craft your story in a format that is more enticing to the reader. Utilizing rich full-bleed fullscreen magazine layouts that flip horizontally, Storyfom gets out of the way of your content. You can even selectively choose which posts to apply <a href="https://storyform.co" rel="nofollow ugc">Storyform</a> to. Storyform works great with longform articles, photo-essays, reports or the everyday blog.</p>
<p>The Storyform platform supports print-like features such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>fullscreen fullbleed magazine layouts</li>
<li>truly responsive across all your devices</li>
<li>touch, mouse and keyboard friendly pagination, no more scrolling</li>
<li>multi-column articles</li>
<li>high quality typography</li>
<li>drop-caps</li>
<li>pullquotes</li>
<li>large photography</li>
<li>animations</li>
<li>background video</li>
<li>captions</li>
</ul>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="How to create a great article / Storyform" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/106440432?dnt=1&app_id=122963" width="750" height="422" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="How to create a great article / Storyform" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/106440432?dnt=1&app_id=122963" width="750" height="422" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write"></iframe></p>
<h4>Docs, Support and Resources</h4>
<p>Visit the <a href="//storyform.co/docs/wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">Official Storyform Plugin Homepage</a> for more detailed information or <a href="//storyform.co" rel="nofollow ugc">Storyform</a> to hear more about the platform.</p>
<h4>Using Storyform</h4>
<p>Storyform is built to work with mainly HTML5 standard semantic article content. It attempts to remove any inline styling or extraneous elements and simply uses the underlying semantic elements. It then applies it’s template layout and styling that you chose for the post. Storyform does not support:</p>
<ul>
<li><code><object></code> based videos or content</li>
<li><code><iframe></code> embedded elements other than YouTube, Vimeo videos</li>
<li>links or alignment attributes on embedded media</li>
</ul>


Storyform

The Storyform plugin let's you create engaging, fullscreen magazine stories with just one click.

Rado's Native Lightbox vs Storyform