Best shadowbox plugins for WordPress
The most popular shadowbox plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Shadowbox JS leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Add LightBox & Title (300+) and Always Valid Lightbox (50+). All 5 plugins tagged “shadowbox” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 shadowbox plugins
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Shadowbox JSThe most installed shadowbox plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 9 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
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Add LightBox & Title300+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4.
- 3.
Always Valid Lightbox50+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 4.
Ez Overlay10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
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Plugin Name10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.
All 5 plugins tagged “shadowbox”
Shadowbox JS
Up in the last 7 days:2#5,194by Matt Martz9 years ago
Shadowbox is an online media vieiwing application similar to Lightbox and Thickbox but with more functionality. Supports all types of media.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Add LightBox & Title
Down in the last 7 days:18#10,975by ppalli15 years ago
This plugin for WordPress automatically add the rel="lightbox[ID-OF-THE-POST]" and recovers the image title.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Always Valid Lightbox
Down in the last 7 days:57#20,389by Joffrey Quillet14 years ago
Always Valid Lightbox is a Lightbox plugin whose markup adapts to the WP site's Doctype, in order to always provide valid HTML markup.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ez Overlay
#31,631by Adam Nowak16 years ago
A simple lightbox plugin designed to enable you to display html content within a popup window using just about any html element as a trigger.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Plugin Name
Up in the last 7 days:1,139#41,266by hb86013 years ago
Always Valid Lightbox Mod is a Lightbox plugin which adapts to site's DOCTYPE and provides a valid HTML markup.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day