Best magnific popup plugins for WordPress
The most popular magnific popup plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Fast Gallery Lite leads with 10+ active installs, ahead of WP Magnific Lightbox (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “Magnific Popup” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 magnific popup plugins
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Fast Gallery LiteThe most installed magnific popup plugin, with 10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
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WP Magnific Lightbox10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
All 2 plugins tagged “Magnific Popup”

Fast Gallery Lite
Up in the last 7 days:68#34,679by ad-theme9 years ago
create your gallery in one minute. Easy and Fast.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Magnific Lightbox
Down in the last 7 days:1,361#44,315by sakeef9 years ago
WP Magnific will allow users to add responsive popup Images, Videos and Maps easily from the backend. Users can generate the shortcodes from Wordpress …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day