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Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin · Version history

Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin changelog and version history

Latest version
2.8.8
Nov 7, 2026 (2 days ago)
Releases
19
since 2019
In the last year
10
about one every 38 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20191 release
  • 20201 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20231 release
  • 20244 releases
  • 20252 releases
  • 20269 releases

20269 releases

  1. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.8.8Latest

    • Updated 07 Nov 2026
    • Update : Moved FooBox block editor controls from the Content tab to the Settings tab.
    • Security : Sanitize WordPress captions before comparing their text to prevent stored DOM-based cross-site scripting through image attributes.
    • Fix : Use original attachment URLs for new Gallery and Image block media links instead of the selected display size, including when overriding the WordPress lightbox. Preserve existing links and wait for attachment data before saving new media links.

  2. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.8.7

    • Updated 12 Oct 2026
    • Update : updated to Freemius SDK v2.13.5 (includes security fixes)

  3. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.8.5

    • Updated 27 Aug 2026
    • New : Automatically include FooBox frontend assets on saved posts that use enabled FooBox block editor controls when assets are excluded by default.
    • Fix : Hardened FooBox Pro social sharing requests to reject malformed input cleanly and prevent PHP fatal errors.

  4. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.8.4

    • Updated 22 Jul 2026
    • New : Added a Block Editor help tab to the FooBox Getting Started admin pages.

  5. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.8.3

    • Updated 21 Jul 2026
    • Fix : Kept FooBox controls visible in the WordPress 7 block inspector’s Content tab.
    • Fix : Applied each Gutenberg Gallery block’s selected FooBox style and opening effect to its lightbox instance.

  6. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.8.1

    • Updated 20 Jul 2026
    • Update : updated to Freemius SDK v2.13.4
    • Docs : clarified which Gutenberg content handlers and opening effects require FooBox Pro.
    • Fix : Sanitized WordPress caption titles and descriptions before rendering.

  7. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.44

    • Updated 27 May 2026
    • Fix : Fixed a PHP warning in the WP Rocket compatibility layer when inline defer exclusions are passed as an array.
    • Fix : Prevented Google Analytics tracking handlers from throwing JavaScript errors when a FooBox item URL is missing.

  8. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.43

    • Updated 14 May 2026
    • New : Added an Auto Link Existing Images setting to automatically wrap unlinked WordPress attachment images so older posts can open in FooBox.
    • New : Added Admin notice on FooBox Settings page to ask if you want to enable Auto Linking for old content.

  9. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.41

20252 releases

  1. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.35

    • Updated 03 July 2025
    • Update : Updated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.5.2
    • Update : Freemius SDK update 2.12.0
    • Fix : Fixed bug where double escaped HTML was not being parsed correctly.

  2. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.34

    • Updated 27 Jan 2025
    • Update : Freemius SDK update 2.11.0
    • Fix : Fixed bug where custom JS from settings was being double escaped.

20244 releases

  1. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.33

    • Updated 10 Nov 2024
    • Update : Freemius SDK update 2.9.0

  2. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.32

    • Updated 4 Aug 2024
    • Update : Freemius SDK update 2.7.3
    • Update : Updated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.4.13
    • Fix : Fixed parsing of HTML captions, so that it strips harmful scripts.

  3. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.28

    • Update 4 May 2024
    • Update : Freemius SDK update 2.7.2
    • Fix : enhanced sanitization for settings.

  4. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.27

    • Updated 1 July 2023
    • Update : Freemius SDK to 2.5.10

20231 release

  1. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.25

    • Updated 01 March 2023
    • Update : Freemius SDK to 2.5.3
    • Update : Updated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.4.13

20221 release

  1. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.17

    • Updated 19/12/2020
    • Fix : fix for loader appearing after the modal is closed in come instances
    • Fix : additional jQuery 3+ compatibility – removed all deprecation warnings
    • Update : Updated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.4.5

20201 release

  1. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.7.11

    • Update : Freemius SDK 2.3.2
    • Update : Updated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS

20191 release

  1. Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin 2.6.4

    • Fix : Improved plugin request validation and data handling
    • Fix : Included font-display for improved pagespeed score
    • Update : Freemius SDK 2.2.4

Questions about Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin’s releases

What is the latest version of Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin?

2.8.8, released on Nov 7, 2026 (2 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.4 or later.

How often is Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin updated?

10 releases in the last year, about one every 38 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from May 2019.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.