Firelight Lightbox is the #4 ranked gallery app on WordPress, with a 4.8 average rating from 355 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Firelight Lightbox is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Firelight. With a rating of 4.8★ from 355 reviews, it currently ranks #4 in the Gallery category.
AppRanks data: Firelight Lightbox ranks #4 in Gallery on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Firelight Lightbox is a category-leading WordPress app with a growing review traction. It is listed in the Gallery category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 355 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.8★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Firelight — established developer track record
Cons
- −Sparse visual evidence (0 screenshots) — harder to evaluate the UX before installing
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How Firelight Lightbox works
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Firelight Lightbox is the most popular lighbox plugin for WordPress, active on over 200,000 WordPress installations. It adds a lightweight and flexible lightbox for viewing images, video, and other media on your website.
After activation, links to images, galleries, videos, pdfs, maps, modals, etc, will open in a lightbox. Settings will be under ‘Lightbox’ on your main admin menu.
QUICK LIGHTBOX DEMOS
Demos for images, videos, PDFs, maps, and modals/popups:
Free Lightbox Demo
Pro Lightbox Demo – Light Theme
Pro Lightbox Demo – Dark Theme
FREE LIGHTBOX FEATURES
– Automatic detection of images
– Automatic detection of galleries
– Customize options for Lightbox appearance, style, and behavior
– Opens all common image formats including webp and svg
– Opens WordPress core galleries
– Opens videos from Youtube, Vimeo, and Dailmotion
– Opens PDF files (embed with object tag, iframe, external Google Docs Viewer)
– Opens NextGEN galleries (instructions)
– Opens content from external web pages (instructions)
– Create easy modals and popup boxes (instructions)
– Open image maps (instructions)
– Open lightbox from WordPress menu items (instructions)
– Support for Jetpack Infinite Scroll
– Support for WordPress Multsite (see Installation instructions)
Links:
-> Demos
-> Docs
-> Free Support
PRO LIGHTBOX FEATURES
Firelight Lightbox Pro is an extension for this lightbox plugin that offers:
– Dozens of Pro features for free lightboxes (Fancybox Legacy, Classic, V2)
– Priority support direct from developers
– New and Powerful Pro Lighbox based on Fancybox 5, including:
– Beautiful, modern full-browser and full-screen ligthbox
– 100+ customizations options
– Thumbnails within the lightbox
– Social sharing for images
– Link direct to images in the lightbox
– “Download image” button
– Toolbar with controls for thumbnails, social sharing, zoom, slideshow, etc
– Open videos
– Open PDFs
– Open popups
– Open inline content and iframes
– Open Google maps
– NextGEN Gallery integration
– Elementor integration
– Perfect on mobile devices
– Optimized lightbox speed
-> VIEW PRO LIGHTBOX DEMOS
-> GET PRO SUPPORT
GDPR / EU Privacy
This plugin does not collect any data or set any browser cookies. The PRO version offers an option to disable the automatic popup after the first visit, which needs a browser cookie. This cookie stores the visitors first website visit timestamp and path on the client side. It is not shared nor is any data stored server side or elsewhere.
Contribute If you’re happy with this plugin, please consider writing a quick rating, helping others in the forum, or translating.
Known conflicts & issues See Firelight Lightbox Troubleshooting.
Category rankings
As of Sep 4, 2026See 90-day rank history for each category
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Keyword rankings
Firelight Lightbox ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- Rank #921
Competitors & alternatives
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Where Firelight Lightbox stands in the Gallery category
Firelight Lightbox ranks #4 of 595 apps in the Gallery category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Firelight Lightbox?
Firelight Lightbox is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.8-star rating from 355 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Gallery category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Firelight.
Where does Firelight Lightbox rank on WordPress?
Firelight Lightbox currently sits at position #4 in the Gallery category on WordPress. That places it in the top 1% of 595 apps tracked in the same category. Category positions are read from the live marketplace ranking and refresh on each scrape, so the number you see here reflects the most recent crawl rather than a long-running average.