Plugin info

Total downloads: 5,160
Active installs: 80
Total reviews: 2
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 4/18/2025 (257 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 10/4/2021 (4 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.3
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 257 days ago • 2 reviews

40/100

Is Simple lightGallery abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 257 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.3
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.4

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Description

An easy way to integrate either v1 or v2 of lightGallery JavaScript to WordPress. lightGallery is a lightweight, modular, JavaScript library for creating beautiful image & video galleries for the web and the mobile

Features

In Settings > Simple lightGallery you can find several options to control in which parts of your site the lightGallery will be loaded.

Some of lightGallery core features (taken from lightGallery officially site)

  • Fully responsive.
  • Modular architecture with built in plugins.
  • Highly optimized for touch devices.
  • Mouse drag supports for desktops.
  • Double-click/Double-tap to see actual size of the image.
  • Animated thumbnails.
  • Social sharing.
  • And many more.

Usage

  1. Select in which post_types and taxonomies you want the lightGallery to be loaded.
  2. Make sure you are using the correct markup and the appropriate initialization for your galleries.
  3. If you want to use lightGallery with WP native [gallery] shortcode make sure to use it with the option link="file".

Installation

  1. Install and activate Simple lightGallery plugin
  2. Either use your own markup and code to initialize it on the frontend or enable the support for the WP [gallery] shortcode.

Credits

Frequently Asked Questions

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Review feed

James Revillini
8/17/2024

fantastic implementation of LightGalleryJS in Wordpress

This plugin is simple, lightweight, and has great support! It worked exactly as described and now my galleries are beautiful and accessible!

Screenshots

  1. lightGallery Customization Options using v1 of the script

    lightGallery Customization Options using v1 of the script

  2. lightGallery Customization Options using v2 of the script

    lightGallery Customization Options using v2 of the script

Changelog

1.7.2

  • Fix: Remove jQuery dependency from v2 code

1.7.0

  • Update lightGallery to version 2.7.2

1.6.1

  • Fix: Hash plugin is not working on multiple galleries.
  • Fix: Image captions are not shown at slideshow.

1.6.0

  • Fix: lightGallery v2 Plugins are not working.

1.5.1

  • Code cleaning…

1.5.0

  • Replace jQuery Chosen library with Select2
  • Add the option to auto-include the needed inline js code (for V1 only!)

1.4.0

  • Update lightGallery to version 2.7.0

1.3.0

  • Update lightGallery to version 2.3.0

1.2.0

  • Add the option to use lightGallery with WP native [gallery] shortcode

1.0.1

  • Cosmetic fixes

1.0.0

  • First Release!