Best jquery lightbox plugins for WordPress
The most popular jquery lightbox plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP Featherlight Disabled leads with 2K+ active installs, ahead of Ultimate Lightbox (1K+). All 2 plugins tagged “jquery lightbox” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 jquery lightbox plugins
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WP Featherlight DisabledThe most installed jquery lightbox plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
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Ultimate Lightbox1K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 19 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
All 2 plugins tagged “jquery lightbox”
WP Featherlight Disabled
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,619by treeflips1 year ago
The most lightweight WordPress lightbox plugin...and the featherlight CSS/JS (only 7kb) is automatically disabled unless you manually enable within ea …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Ultimate Lightbox
Up in the last 7 days:26#6,559by Rustaurius3 months ago
Add a responsive lightbox to any or all images on your site
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.1(19)
- Downloads
- 21/day