Limited-Time Offer

Get Extra 20% off on FullCharge Yearly Plan — available for first 10 users only. Don’t miss out! 🚀

TrackWP

LightPress Lightbox · Version history

LightPress Lightbox changelog and version history

Latest version
2.3.5
Mar 25, 2026 (7 months ago)
Releases
39
since 2010
In the last year
1
Tested up to
WordPress 6.9.11
PHP 7.0 or later

Releases each year

  • 20104 releases
  • 20113 releases
  • 202314 releases
  • 202416 releases
  • 20251 release
  • 20261 release

20261 release

  1. LightPress Lightbox 2.3.5Latest

    • Fix: Improve gallery grouping attribute handling
    • Update: WordPress tested version to 6.9.4

20251 release

  1. LightPress Lightbox 2.3.4

    • Update: Dom purify script version
    • Update: WordPress tested version to 6.8
    • Fix: Issue with download links

202416 releases

  1. LightPress Lightbox 2.3.3

    • Update Pro landing and pricing
    • Fix invalid invalid infobar CSS
    • Update WordPress tested version

  2. LightPress Lightbox 2.3.2

    • Fix Animation Duration setting
    • Fix top navbar box shadow
    • Show optin/reviews to all users

  3. LightPress Lightbox 2.3.1

    • Fix JavaScript error
    • Fix license checks

  4. LightPress Lightbox 2.2.0

    • Add review requests
    • Add option to disable core lightbox
    • Change how plugin is instantiated

  5. LightPress Lightbox 2.1.0

    • Major file reorganization
    • Fix image inserting not working in classic editor
    • Update plugin banner and icon

  6. LightPress Lightbox 2.0.0

    • Rename plugin to LightPress
    • Add core LightPress plugin class
    • Add new settings screen
    • Old plugin file can be loaded by setting JQLB_LEGACY constant to true

  7. LightPress Lightbox 1.5.5

    • Update WP tested version
    • Improve JS enqueueing
    • Minor security fix (issue only affected authenticated users)

  8. LightPress Lightbox 1.5.4

    • Add plugin timestamp
    • Update WP tested version

  9. LightPress Lightbox 1.5.3

    • Improve mobile panzoom behavior
    • Remove nav for single images
    • Option to use alt as title

  10. LightPress Lightbox 1.5.2

    • Fix new nav arrow size

  11. LightPress Lightbox 1.5.1

    • Replace dashicons with svg for nav arrows

  12. LightPress Lightbox 1.5

    • Added new nav arrow style options
    • Added overlay color/opacity options
    • Added border color/width options
    • Added image shadow option
    • Added option to hide infobar
    • Improved styling

  13. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.9.3

    • Added pinch-to-zoom support for mobile
    • Improved mobile styling

  14. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.9.2

    • Update author and contributors
    • Update tested WordPress version
    • Update minimum PHP version to 7.0

  15. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.9.1

    • Add webp support
    • Remove donation links

  16. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.9

    • Updated readme author and description
    • Fixed image centering on small screens
    • Removed white space from end of lines
    • Updated default settings for resize_on_demand and margin_size
    • Capitalized slideshow links

202314 releases

  1. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.8.3

    • Added setting to control whether jQuery is loaded in the header or footer.

  2. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.8.2

    • Migrated lightbox to modern jQuery (Thanks: Joseph Rézeau aka papijo!)
    • Improved support of Gutenberg editor’s image captions (Thanks: Joseph Rézeau aka papijo!)
    • Tested up to WordPress 5.6 and PHP 7.4.12

  3. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.8.1

    • Tested for WordPress 5.x and PHP 7.0

  4. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.8

    • Fixed translations not being loaded properly
    • Fixed support for WordPress 4.4

  5. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.7

    • Support for WordPress’ new translation system.
    • Updated translation for Portugese (Thanks: Pedro Mendonça)
    • Added images and CSS for Portugese (Thanks: Pedro Mendonça)

  6. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.6

    • “Download link” now correctly open a download dialogue instead of displaying the file
    • Title, caption and all control elements can now be turned on / off individually
    • Added support for custom style sheets (just copy original to your theme’s style folder, and hack away)
    • Restructured the HTML slightly, making styling easier
    • Added specific CSS selectors for all elements
    • Fixed animation speed setting being ignored
    • Dropped quirks support for Internet Explorer 8
    • Removed help-text setting

  7. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.5

    • Fit to screen edge on low rez displays (<500px)
    • Added global setting to hide title & caption
    • Reduced the amount of code running for each image shown
    • Updated German translation (thanks Niko23)
    • Fix: swipe direction
    • Fix: slideshow now waits for images to display before starting timer.
    • Fix: support for latest jQuery
    • Fix: WordPress encoding wrong quote mark in captions, causing duplicate texts to display.

  8. LightPress Lightbox 1.4.1

  9. LightPress Lightbox 1.4

  10. LightPress Lightbox 1.3.4.2

  11. LightPress Lightbox 1.3.4.1

  12. LightPress Lightbox 1.3.4

  13. LightPress Lightbox 1.3.3

  14. LightPress Lightbox 1.3.2

20113 releases

  1. LightPress Lightbox 1.3.1

  2. LightPress Lightbox 1.3

  3. LightPress Lightbox 1.2.2

20104 releases

  1. LightPress Lightbox 1.2.1

  2. LightPress Lightbox 1.2

  3. LightPress Lightbox 1.1

  4. LightPress Lightbox 1.0

Questions about LightPress Lightbox’s releases

What is the latest version of LightPress Lightbox?

2.3.5, released on Mar 25, 2026 (7 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 6.9.11 and needs PHP 7.0 or later.

How often is LightPress Lightbox updated?

One release in the last year. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from April 2010.

Know when your rivals ship

Track your plugin and its rivals: TrackWP sees each new release in the nightly snapshot and alerts you, with what it did to their rank.

Start free

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