Top WordPress Lightbox plugins

These lightbox plugins for WordPress are some of the best. Even though WordPress is one of the fastest platforms out there, these plugins can definitely slow down your load time.

1. Lightbox 2 ( Download – Demo )

Lightbox jQuery plugin for WordPress will help you to present images in a spectacular and original manner by overlaying images on the current page.

2. jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries ( Download – Demo )

jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries Plugin makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images right there in the page.

3. Picasa LightBox ( Download - Demo )

You can add Picasa images to your posts and pages without using any custom tags, click the Picasa Photos tab, browse your albums and select the picture you want to insert. Picasa LightBox does not download Picasa images to your serve, instead it displays them directly from Picasa.

4. Lightbox Gallery ( Download - Demo )

This plugin uses add , which was introduced in WordPress 2.5. The plugin automatically converts the default view of your gallery into the lightbox view. A nice feature of this plugin are the tooltips which display the images captions.

5. FancyBox ( Download - Demo )

Seamlessly integrates FancyBox into your blog: Upload, activate, and you’re done. No further configuration needed.

6. Lightview plus ( Download - Demo )

Lightview does the same as lightbox, but in a much nicer way and since Version 2.0 much more. Now lightview plus plays videos from YouTube and Vimeo. This plugin automatically enhance image links to use lightview.