17 Magical Free Lightbox Gallery List

1. WordPress Gravity Gallery DZS

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Display your portfolio or media albums in a unique way with Gravity Gallery. It’s fully compatible with lightbox galleries like prettyPhoto so you can zoom on your showcase photos / videos with no problem. Cusomise the gallery size, items size and their parameters. With these options, the possibilities with what you can do this gallery are endless.This gallery is compatible with all the major HTML5 browsers – Firefox, Chrome, Opera, IE9, Safari.HTML5 technology - this gallery uses the latest html5 tehniques to deliver a never seen before experience to your clients

IE7 / IE8 backup – ie7 and ie8 do not support html5, but those users are not forgetten, a centered gallery appears for them so you won’t miss a single visitor

iPod, iPhone, iPad, Android optimized – iOS and Android work great with this gallery

extensive admin panel – admin panel with lots of options to make the gallery as customizable as possible, yet easy to use. to make your life easier while editing the gallery.Gravity Gallery WordPress plugin – get creative!

free updates – even if the value of this gallery increases with upcoming updates, you will get them for free

free support – for installation via my forum -> http://digitalzoomstudio.

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2. WOW Slider

WOW Slider

The most strong and popular web design trend over last couple of years is a sliding horizontal panels also known as Sliders or Carousels. Image slider is a very effective method to increase the web site usability and engage the user.

WOW Slider is a responsive jQuery image slider with amazing visual effects and tons of professionally made templates. NO Coding - WOW Slider is packed with a point-and-click wizard to create fantastic sliders in a matter of seconds without coding and image editing. Wordpress slider plugin and Joomla slider module are available.

Also, you can share your slider on Facebook.

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3. iLightBox · Revolutionary Lightbox Plugin

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By combining support for a wide range of media with gorgeous skins and a user-friendly API, iLightBox aims to push the Lightbox concept as far as possible.“Greetings, this is amazing lightbox! Nice Job! Modern, lightweight and just awesome. Most likely that it will became a free package update.

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4. Scroller Gallery 2 - Recent Posts Teaser WordPress

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DZS Scroller Gallery is the ultimate media gallery that you can use for showcasing your portfolio, photographs or even video shots. The gallery consists of thumbs layed out in a grid format that can have a description and link set on them. The link can also be a lightbox link so it can pop up a lightbox like ZoomBox 2 to launch images or videos.custom lightbox one of a kind, custom-built lightbox included

lightbox galleries separate items in the same gallery by lightbox galleries

extensive admin panel – admin panel with lots of options to make the gallery as customizable as possible, yet easy to use. to make your life easier while editing the gallery.Scroller Gallery 2 WordPress plugin – get creative!

free updates – even if the value of this gallery increases with upcoming updates, you will get them for free

free support – for installation via our forum -> http://digitalzoomstudio.

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5. Social Gallery WordPress Photo Viewer Plugin

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Social Gallery is The Ultimate Social Lightbox for WordPress.Social Gallery Plugin is a fantastic new way to engage visitors to your WordPress blog by adding the ultimate lightbox featuring social media buttons (Facebook like, Facebook Send, Pinterests ‘Pin it’, Twitters ‘Tweet This’ and now Linked In, Stumble Upon & Tumblr) as well as Facebook or Disqus Comments!

Your blog visitors already click your images, at best perhaps you have a lightbox feature (or maybe you don’t even have that!) – but once they click your images (and if they clicked it, they probably like it!) then what? With Social Gallery Plugin your users can “like”, “tweet” and “pin” the images on your page!

Social Gallery [shortcodes] released

Perfect compliment for the Social Gallery Lightbox

Social Gallery Features:

The Ultimate Social Lightbox

40+ CSS 3 Animations – Transition in your Lightbox!

Earn More with Lightbox Adverts (Google Adsense)

Image Library & Social Gallery Pages

Replaces any old Lightbox plugin

Works with WordPress Galleries like NextGen, WordPress Gallery Plugin and Justified Imaged Grid

Facebook’s 1 Billion+ users will be familiar with Social Gallery

The Ultimate WordPress Facebook Plugin for Photo Viewing – Easily integrated just by installing the plugin! Once installed you can view your very own Facebook style gallery – on your own blog!

Social Gallery really is now the most Kick Ass lightbox/gallery sharing plugin!

Integrates directly with WordPress – you get an extra menu item for Social Gallery where you can manage everything including settings, image library and update engine

Tweak your Social Gallery easily from the options screen

Faster than the original Lightbox, and now even faster than older Social Gallery Versions!

Social Gallery Technology

Choice of Social Gallery Pages framework or other fallbacks, including HashBang solution to distinct image comments

CSS3 Animations can be chosen for the opening & closing of Social Gallery!

Support: Please note that support from Envato authors is optional but I typically provide it for free as follows: 1st responses via Forums, emails & comments will also be answered thereafter.Theme compatiblity: Social Gallery will work with 99. Themes which have lightboxes, or plugins which add lightboxes will need to have these removed for Social Gallery to work (because it’s a lightbox.Free updates for life! All users who buy Social Gallery here get free version updates for life.» Added functionality: Delete images from Social Gallery Library via "Image Library"

1 – 15th March 2013 – Many stability improvements & Fixes, Mobile detecting, On/Off for Social Gallery Per-Post & Per-Page, Escaped HTML now allowed for title & Descriptions, Settings Backup and much more!, also pre-cursor update to Social Gallery Mobile & Stat’s Add-ons and Justified Image Grid Improvement

» Fixed a bug with Social Gallery Pages "title" attribute

» Fixed bug where tweet links to page (now links to Social Gallery Page or Fallback)

» Fixed bug where g+ links to page (now links to Social Gallery Page or Fallback)

» Fixed Bug in single-social-gallery-image template

» Fixed options in single-social-gallery-image template

» Added Social Gallery Page awareness to viewer + Social Gallery Page template

» Added "Disable Social Gallery Per Post/Page" meta boxes to posts/pages

» Added On/Off for "Disable Social Gallery Per Post/Page" feature to Settings

» Added capacity to properly save "custom-social-gallery-image.» Implemented Total disabling of Social Gallery per post/page, including includes

0 – 13th December 2012 – Added Google Adsense compatibility, Social Gallery Pages, CSS3 Animations, Super Easy Install Wizard, Tumblr, Linked In, Google+ & Stumble Upon Sharing, Full Screen Mode, Theme Engine, Enhanced Management Area & Admin, Improved code efficiency & robustness and many more tweaks

» Fixed 4 bugs related to image proportion, gallery margin and scaling

» Improvement: Added capacity to enable/disable Social Gallery Pages function

» Improvement: Refined "Social Gallery Pages"

» Improvement: Made it easier to share Social Gallery and Earn a commision

» Improvement: Redeveloped Social Gallery Plugin Homepage

» Improvement: Built specific social gallery encoder to ultimately minify code

» Added Social Gallery Pages functionality

» Added Social Gallery Pages customisation

» Added CSS3 Animation's for opening & closing Social Gallery [v2 easter egg]

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» Added Pretty Urls for Unique Social Gallery Pages

» Added "As seen on" to unique Social Gallery Pages

» Added Social Gallery News to homepage

» Added functionality: Image Gallery Margin Setting

» Added functionality: Image Gallery Enlarging via Setting

» Added Stronger CSS rules to Social Gallery

» Added NextGen Gallery Overview Mode

» Added Gallery Compatability Mode

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6. jQuery Speedo Popup

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a wordpress lightbox gallery

You can play videos, you can make a lightbox of videos and or mixed content or you can notify the user when you want, you have the possibility to do whatever you want.You can choose free 17 jQuery and CSS3 transition effects, or you create your own

* Fixed BUG: When using groupGallery(lightbox) on multiple content and different

* Fixed BUG: If you have a group gallery and you close it and scrool through the mouse wheel, the popup reappears.

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7. Ultimate Grid Responsive Gallery

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Ultimate Grid Responsive Gallery

This is a HTML | CSS | JQuery Grid with a Lightbox, you can specify thumbnails for the grid and when you click on it to open the lightbox it will load the normal image, you can specify the text for the captions and for the lightbox. Fully Responsive Grid and Lightbox

Lightbox with slideshow (play, pause, auto-play)

Free Technical Support

IE was showing fat images in the lightbox and now is fix

Fixed a small console errors and also a small bug when you click to fast the next button in the lightbox

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8. SoapBox Gallery For WordPress

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net style gallery in WordPress with Views and Voting Functionality

Sidebar quickview with title, feature image, excerpt content, post gallery, avatar, author name.Pagination is ajax loaded – the user does not leave the page when cycling through all the gallery pages.All gallery images are loaded into prettyPhoto lightbox with gallery option.Dynamically sort gallery items by date(ascending, descending).Dynamically sort gallery items by amount of votes(ascending, descending).Scrolling effect on top and bottom right sidebar elements mouseover and auto scroll of right sidebar when the gallery is above the window. Check Out Our Free plugins at http://nuvuthemes.

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9. MelonHTML5 - Metro Gallery

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Metro Gallery a flexible and easy to integrate photo gallery featured in Metro Design.Metro Gallery gives you the ability to easily create your own unique Metro Wall containing multiple tiles in various sizes with automatic rotations.Lightbox

A CSS3 lightbox is included, which can be turned on or off.Lightbox can be used to embed both images and videos.Thumbnails in tiles and big images in lightbox

You can use thumbnials in small tiles and set big images to be used in lightbox.Metro Gallery can be loaded with 3 different animations: flip, scale or fade.Free support & frequent updates

As always, feel free to contact me if you have any questions, I’ll respond as soon as I can CHANGE LOGS:

Added ability to use thumbnail in tiles, and big images in lightbox

New feature: Lightbox

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10. Jquery Carousel - Multimedia - Image Video Audio

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It can also be customized as simple lightbox gallery or audio gallery. lightbox support

free updates

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11. Jssor Slider jQuery Plugin, TOUCH & RESPONSIVE

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Image Gallery

Image Gallery with Vertical Thumbnail Navigator

Free support and upgrades

Slider can be put anywhere (lightbox, or any container)

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12. ZoomBox 2 - The Photographer's Premium Lightbox

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ZoomBox 2 – The Photographer’s Lightbox ! What makes ZoomBox unique to the other lightbox scripts ? In short – quality, user-friendliness, design and social media plugin wordpress connectivity.ZoomBox Lightbox Features

HTML5 technology - this gallery uses the latest html5 tehniques ( like Histroy API ) to deliver a never seen before experience to your clients

iPhone / iPad optimized – this gallery has been optimized for Apple touch devices

the only lightbox script that does deeplinking right – most lightbox scripts use hashes for delivering the deeplink, but the problem with that is that facebook likes for example will not get counted for the photo the user is viewing in the ZoomBox, but for the entire page instead.unique ability to zoom on photos – this is the perfect lightbox script for photographers to showcase their work because on any image, your visitor can zoom it and see the marvelous details you capture in your art.ZoomBox Lightbox Updates

[add] arrows for gallery mode

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13. MelonHTML5 - 3D Cube Gallery

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3D Cube Gallery is a flexible and easy to setup Photo Gallery with 3D Cube Animations and fully customizable options via API.Lightbox

Free support & frequent updates

Fix lightbox to work with window scroll

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14. MelonHTML5 - Timeline

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It comes with 4 different timeline element types (blog post, mini gallery, slider and embedded iframe), each element type has its own unique feature and plenty of customizalbe options, which should suit all your needs. A full CSS3 lightbox is also included with the option to be turned on/off. Images rotate automatically and could have lightbox enabled or disabled.Mini Gallery:

Allows you to create a blog post style element with a lightbox enabled image on the top, and a read more link at the bottom.Lightbox

A full CSS3 (jQuery Fallback for IEs) lightbox is included which can be applied to images used in elemetns.99% bug free.Free support & frequent updates

As usualy, feel free to contact me (either use the comment or drop me an email) if you have any questions.

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15. iLightBox · Revolutionary Lightbox for WordPress

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By combining support for a wide range of media with gorgeous skins and a user-friendly API, iLightBox aims to push the Lightbox concept as far as possible.Compatible with the regular wordpress gallery shortcode.“Great work on this plugin! It’s quite fantastic! It’s definitely the best gallery plugin I’ve used for Wordpress. I’ve bought 6 gallery plugins and this is the first one that manages loading images smoothly on slow connections. Most likely that it will became a free package update. * Optimized: Creating new gallery. * Optimized: Native gallery shortcode. * Added: Native support for Gallery Shortcode. * Added: Enable on wordpress gallery shortcode option. * Fixed: Gallery in feed page.

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16. ZoomFolio - WordPress Portfolio Plugin

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You can use it to show the recent posts comments widget wordpress from your blog or a gallery from your vacation.CSS3 technology - this gallery uses cutting-edge css3 definitions to render awesome 3D effects in supporting browsers, the others will degrade gracefully

iPhone / iPad optimized – this gallery has been optimized for Apple touch devices

[ADD] You can have multiple images on a project now ( if the item is of type image and has a “item gallery” attached )

[add] new Features for ZoomBox lightbox like gallery, zoom on photo

[fix] accordion style inside gallery fix – now works on the Item Gallery tab

[add] new Portfolio Item type – gallery

[add] prettyphoto lightbox library – you can now choose between zoombox or prettyphoto lightbox for each portfolio

added gallery mode to posts on skins accordion and clean – as shown in the preview

fixed do not open Big Image in lightbox field

Yes, it’s possible to not use lightbox zoom in on the featured image. You have 2 parts of the Portfolio Item, and you can link them to whatever, a JavaScript image gallery zoom in, a custom link ( that you choose ), the portfolio item link or nothing at all.Nice plugin – I’m wondering is it possible to link the thumbnail to an existing gallery using a link.Set any link inside the Big Image and set Open Big Image in Lightbox to OFF

Another question please, how i can fix the gallery at the center of my page? it’s always in the left.Where do i put vimeo id on post to open on lightbox

free updates – even if the value of this gallery increases with upcoming updates, you will get them for free

free support – for installation via our support board -> http://digitalzoomstudio.

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17. Jssor Slider No-jQuery Version, TOUCH RESPONSIVE

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Image Gallery

Image Gallery with Vertical Thumbnail Navigator

Free support and upgrades

Slider can be put anywhere (lightbox, or any container)

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18. Justified Image Grid - Premium WordPress Gallery

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The #1 best selling gallery on CodeCanyon

This responsive WordPress gallery plugin aligns your thumbnails into a justified grid using jQuery, like Flickr and google image search api search. Make your galleries stand out in an eye-catching and unique new way! Replace the standard WP galleries [gallery] as [justified_image_grid] with lots of new features and options. Filter the thumbnails by tags or any taxonomy!Control every aspect: row height, appearance, special effects like desaturation, color overlay with magnifier icon, borders, multiple captions, free and premium lightboxes, mouse activated animation… It’s easy to install and comes with 18 presets out of the box. The settings are available to change on a per gallery basis, extending the global settings and presets. #2 Settings and creating a gallery

Automatically align images to a justified gallery keeping their original aspect ratio

Or just display all albums in your content using the Facebook overview feature – automatically create separate pages for the albums or just open them in the lightbox.NextGEN Gallery (both versions 1 and 2) integration, full support for nested albums and galleries, tag gallery, tag album, recent images, random images (all photos or from a gallery), individual photos, permalinks, custom links, limit, load more or hidden limit is used instead of pagination.Hidden limit – limit the number of thumbs but cycle all gallery images in the lightbox

224 unique settings and shortcode attributes that you can change for each gallery

These are FooBox which is social and responsive + the Social Gallery that allows Facebook/Disqus comments for the pictures. Multiple free lightbox options bundled: a customized prettyPhoto with social sharing, ColorBox, PhotoSwipe – which is optimized for mobiles and features a touch swipe navigation between the images. It’s possible to use a different lightbox for mobile devices and for desktops. Also to disable the lightbox or to turn links off. Compatible with Jetpack’s Carousel, a full screen free lightbox. HTML tags support in lightbox captions

This is one of best gallery plugins out there.This is the best gallery plugin for wordpress.What a beautiful gallery plugin! Lovely work. I have been looking for a best wordpress gallery with these capabilities for an age! Great work Firsh.Perfect and easy! Best (responsive) gallery plugin by far! Great job.I love this gallery plugin….This is the #1 top selling WordPress gallery plugin on CodeCanyon since July 28, 2013!

Link RSS images to their permalink or the image itself (RSS Reader mode or RSS Gallery mode basically)

Optional lightbox backlink when images are opened in the lightbox

The ng_random_images now accepts a comma separated list of multiple gallery ids to allow random images from multiple galleries. This is useful for sorting by gallery Title A-Z when displaying multiple albums together (next changelog entry) or in the Overview album (all galleries) mode. The ID can be used to sort gallery/subalbum creation order. Added: Using Recent Posts feature, when Click on a thumbnail link to an image (lightbox image gallery of posts), a permalink can be placed in the lightbox as a way to go to the parent post (similar to Flickr, Instagram, RSS backlinks in the lightbox)

Added: Ability to open images on a new tab, by the browser (a new ‘lightbox’ setting)

Added: Ability to show larger image in the lightbox from Facebook (normal: 720px max, larger: the new default, maximum: up to 4MP – 2048px)

Added: Custom text to add before & after each gallery (can be disabled on individual instances)

Ability to open the Facebook albums in the lightbox, without leaving the page is also included. Point a thumbnail to open a different picture in the lightbox and still have prev/next arrows

Added: Nextgen random images (display some random images of a gallery or regardless of gallery – the limit is applied after randomization)

Added: Option to display NextGEN gallery/album descriptions between the breadcrumb and the grid

Improved: Flickr feature: If some photos are not shown because they are too small, this is noted after the gallery with instructions to resolve the issue.Bugfix: PHP Fatal error when NextGEN is uninstalled and still trying to show NextGEN content, is now replaced with a friendly error message (NextGEN gallery is not installed/inactive!).Bugfix: The class gallery-caption is no longer added to the parent container of JIG when Carousel and Load More features are used together (preventing Carousel when clicking outside a thumbnail is now solved in an other way)

Added: Jetpack Carousel compatibility (new retina ready lightbox, only for WP images), supports download link and 3 metadata locations (caption)

All in all this means you can tag WP images, just like NextGEN, and display a gallery based on the tag.Bugfix: The Social Gallery’s latest version is recognized in the shortcode editor properly

Added: Take over gallery shortcode – choose between hiding the original WordPress gallery shortcode, replacing it automatically or leaving it alone

Improved: Custom link target VIDEO is now called “Lightbox: video / iframe / another image”

Bugfix: SocialGallery bugs – update to at least Social Gallery version 2.Added: Uses Jetpack Photon, a CDN-like free service by WordPress.Improved: The setting overlay_gallery_max changed from 30 to 300 in prettyPhoto to make sure the overlay gallery shows up when required

Changed: Using the “NextGEN galleries open in lightbox” feature the hash is written as #prettyPhoto[galleryid] instead of #ngg[galleryid] because prettyPhoto only reopens itself this way

Bugfix: NextGEN breadcrumb was missing gallery name in v1.Bugfix: A chrome bug when using special effects and a horizontally centered gallery would clip 1px randomly from top and left.Added: NextGEN tags: Tag Gallery and Tag Album mode (tag galleries are also openable in a lightbox, breadcrumbs are also implemented for tags)

Added: NextGEN gallery thumbnails now show the number photos (can be turned off with a new setting)

Added: NextGEN gallery thumbnails can now open the photos in a lightbox instead of creating a new page for them (can be toggled with a new setting)

Social Gallery doesn’t support HTML (links to the file to download)

Improved: Image can be linked to the attachment page (new lightbox and recents_link_to setting)

Improved: NextGEN album and gallery dropdown selectors now include the ID id the shortcode editor

Improved: PhotoSwipe compatibility – added JIG gallery refresh to the close event and tap x event, so you’ll no longer get ‘Element is too thin’ error when coming back from PhotoSwipe

Bugfix: When not using permalinks with NextGEN, galleries will link to the gallery’s own page properly, like original NextGEN – previously only albums did this correctly

call-user-func]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback’ is no longer showing up when keeping the ‘hidden’ WP gallery present under JIG gallery on older versions of WordPress.Updated: More documentation has been included for using the plugin with nextgen gallery album shortcode

Bugfix: Shortcode editor no longer generates ng_pics undefined when NextGEN gallery is not installed.Added: Recent posts can link to the images (lightbox) instead of posts – create a jQuery gallery image recent posts, not a slider

Added: Ability to automatically exclude featured image from the gallery (use the word feature in the exclude field)

Improved: Social Gallery V2 compatibility

Bugfix: Fixed a browser crash due to scrollbar appearing and disappearing due to constantly varying gallery height (very rare case but serious)

Bugfix: Sometimes gallery would be invisible when only one row is present and can’t fill the row.Added: PhotoSwipe as a new lightbox option, ability to use it on mobiles only or everywhere

Added: Premium lightboxes – FooBox and Social Gallery (purchased separately), dedicated mutual compatibility

Added: Ability to add images from media library to gallery wordpress to the lightbox that are above the limit (have a few thumbnails and 100s of images in the lightbox)

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