Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox vs Lightbox with PhotoSwipe

FooBox adds a lightbox to your WordPress site, so images are loaded in a modal or popup instead of redirecting your visitors away from your site. Some people often refer to a lightbox as an “Image Zoom” effect. It’s really just a modal overlay or popup that showcases your images. FooBox was the first lightbox to take responsive layout seriously. Not only does it scale images to look better on phones, but it rearranges it’s button controls to look great in both portrait or landscape orientation. Add a modal popup to your website images with no setup. FooBox will automatically add modals to WordPress galleries, WordPress images with captions, and attachment images. NEW: Auto Link Existing Images Have older posts with images that do not open in FooBox? That is probably because those images were inserted without linking to the full-size media file. Enable Auto Link Existing Images and FooBox will automatically wrap unlinked WordPress attachment images on the frontend, so visitors can open them in the lightbox without you editing old content. Works with most image gallery plugins, but works best with our FooGallery Gallery WordPress Plugin. FULL GUTENBERG SUPPORT Within Gutenberg, FooBox lightbox will automatically add a modal popup to images and galleries that have the “Link To” setting set to “Media File”. Image captions set in the editor are also automatically picked up in the FooBox modal popup. FooBox Image Lightbox Features: Responsive lightbox design Modern lightbox design Zero configuration! Works with WordPress galleries Works with WordPress captioned images Auto links older unlinked WordPress attachment images Control when to exclude / include FooBox JS & CSS assets Includes a 7-day free trial of FooBox Pro Lightbox! You can try the PRO version for free for 7 days. FooBox PRO Features: Social sharing (10+ networks) Video lightbox support HTML lightbox support iFrame support Deeplinking Fullscreen and slideshow modes Glass lightbox theme (including custom color pickers) Metro lightbox theme Flat lightbox theme 5 color schemes, 12 button icons and 11 loader icons 12 animation effects 85+ settings to customize FooBox PRO Works With: The Best Image Gallery Plugin for WordPress NextGen Justified Image Grid Envira Gallery WooCommerce product images (Works with WooCommerce v3+) JetPack Tiled Gallery AutOptimize Check out the full feature comparison. Complete FooBox Asset Control By default, FooBox lightbox includes javascript and stylesheet assets into all your pages. We do this, because we do not know if the page content contains media or not. If you want more control over when FooBox assets are included, you can now exclude the assets by default, by enabling a setting. Then on each page, you can choose to include them when required. Alternatively, you can leave the setting disabled, and then choose to exclude the FooBox assets from particular pages. A new metabox is now available when editing your pages or posts. This new feature was only available in the PRO version beforehand, but we feel control over your website performance is something you should not have to pay for. Enjoy! Translations Serbo-Croatian by Borisa Djuraskovic

This plugin integrates PhotoSwipe to WordPress. All linked images in a post or page will be displayed using PhotoSwipe, regardless if they are part of a gallery or single images. More about the original version of PhotoSwipe see here: http://photoswipe.com You can also display EXIF data from supported image types. As of version 4.0.0 this plugin requires at least WordPress 5.3 and PHP 7.0. Older PHP version will cause problems. In this case you have to upgrade your PHP version or ask your hoster to do so. Please note that WordPress itself also recommends at least PHP 7.4 – see https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/. Please keep in mind: not the visible thumbnail is relevant, but only the image link. Images should always be linked to the file and not to the attachment page. Since version 5.6.1 there is an option to fix attachment links which can be enabled if needed – however this may slow down your website since then all links on a page will be checked if they are attachment links.