Rating: 5 stars

This is what I expect of a lightbox. I want my pictures in large format without distraction, nothing else. And that’s what this plugin does :).

Rating: 5 stars

All the other plugins I researched were asking for mucho bucks for some of the most overly-complicated backend. This did exactly what I wanted to do on install. Love it! Many thanks!

Rating: 5 stars

Makes life easy. It’s simple and does what it’s suppose to.

Rating: 4 stars

Cuando estaba felíz de tener al fin los EXIF en imagenes webp me encuentro con que al poco rato una actualización acaba con mi felicidad, la verdad no vi ningún problema mientras funcionaron los EXIF en webp sin pasar por el PHP, así que por ahora usaré la versión previa ya que para mi es fundamental esta funcionalidad y por ahora le bajo la calificación al plugin hasta que se vuelva a implementar o se solucione de alguna manera.

When I was happy to finally have the EXIF in webp images I find that soon after an update ends with my happiness, the truth I did not see any problem while the EXIF worked in webp without going through the PHP, so for now I will use the previous version because for me it is essential this functionality and for now I lower the rating to the plugin until it is reimplemented or is solved in some way.

• This topic was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by elyeti2017.

Rating: 5 stars

In my opinion, this is the best Lightbox on WordPress. It uses the famous PhotoSwipe, which has a clean, elegant and minimalistic look. The plugin offers an intuitive UI to adjust a few things and the developer is super responsive. Great work!

Rating: 5 stars

Great work. Looks good, works great.

Rating: 5 stars

No frills, it works with no issues out of the box.

Plenty of settings to customize it. Fast, and neat.

Rating: 5 stars

After adding PhotoSwipe on hardcoded websites, I am using this PhotoSwipe plugin for WordPress sites and it works fantastic. The configuration is well done. Thank you @awelzel . It’s great, that dimsemenov allowed you to make this plugin. Keep it up!

Rating: 5 stars

Works really well on both desktop and mobile, has a nice design which doesn’t require any customization to look good, and I can set it up to group images into galleries with data tags.

Rating: 5 stars

I have been looking for so long for a lightbox that scrolls. Finally I found it here. This lightbox is really beautiful, I am happy ??

Rating: 5 stars

Not too much to write here. It’s perfect for larger galleries. Will donate to support it.

Rating: 5 stars

Clean, simple, and fast implementation of PhotoSwipe for WordPress with lots of customization options.

Rating: 5 stars

best lightbox plugin for photo websites – and it’s for free! absolutely worth donating for it. great fullscreen view (with magnification icon to zoom into large photos) – wonderful to show photos also on smartphones and tablets

• This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by webentwicklerin.

Rating: 5 stars

Easy to use and great support! Thank you!

Rating: 5 stars

Works great. Additional stylign are necessary.

Rating: 5 stars

Great plug in! I have used for many years now, and realized I never gave a review, my bad.
This plug in is the best in its category. It doesn’t bloat the page with unnecessary files, even though it has a lot of options to navigate through the images.

And it works flawlessly.

Thanks!

Rating: 5 stars

…rapid support!

Rating: 5 stars

Works very well with the WordPress integrated Gutenberg Galery Block

Rating: 5 stars

I’ve created a website for my photography. When I learned to make websites, in the 90s, it was with html and a text editor. I am struggling to understand how things work these days and, although I was reasonably happy with how my site looked on a desktop or laptop, I wasn’t happy at all with the experience of browsing my photos on a mobile – which, I’m sure, is the most common way for people to view a website these days.

At first glance at least, this plugin does *exactly* what I want it to – the images from my galleries displayed full-screen on your mobile, with easy swiping from one to the next. I may investigate how to customise this plugin at some point but, for now, I’m just happy I found it.

Rating: 4 stars

A very good lightbox. Displays especially well on mobile phones.
But it needs more options for settings – for example, the ability to choose colours. Making changes by coding is not an easy or friendly option. I am architect and although I can design, I cannot code!

Rating: 5 stars

The best plugin I’ve ever used for galleries.

Rating: 5 stars

This is what a plugin should be:
No bloat
No jQuery
No nags
Works perfectly

Thank you!

Rating: 5 stars

Simple, elegant, and easy to use. Patient and helpful support.

Rating: 5 stars

Congratulations! Amazing!

Rating: 5 stars

No bloat, simple and to the point with just the right amount of options for mobile and desktop. A talented and generous developer indeed.

Rating: 5 stars

very happy with this lightbox plugin, worked when others didn’t thanks heaps for your hard work.

Rating: 5 stars

Thank you!

Rating: 5 stars

Photoswipe technology is a big innovation in lightbox. Up until now the main commercial level lightbox code has come from FancyBox who have gone entirely proprietary for version 4. All of the FancyBox lightbox plugins are based on v3 which was finished in 2019. With some luck and hard work, Photoswipe is the future of lightbox technology although it’s under a strange license now. Photoswipe is open source except for WordPress plugin developers. Fortunately the creator has made an exception for Arno Welzel, who has created a very good WordPress version.

I’m still using ARI fancybox after head-to-head testing.

What didn’t I like?

• There’s no option to go directly to full-full screen which ARI fancybox has. Great when everything disappears except the image (for photo websites which mine is), looks great on mobile too with no browser chrome.
• Captions on mobile can be tapped on or off. The issue is that with captions on, there is a large grey transparent strip at the bottom of the image. With this band, the images don’t look good which means captions have to be turned off. With captions turned off there Tapping on and off is just too much work for visitors. Neither experience is ideal. On ARI fancybox, there’s no background on my courier-typeface captions which are easily readable on almost all images. Could be eliminated in CSS and I may do this in the future.
• Facebook sharing. I don’t like Facebook at all but my audience is on Facebook and need a way not to share posts but specific images to Facebook. ARI fancybox lets me enter a Facebook app key (pain to make of course) and really share single images in a large format. The ARI fancybox Facebook share then links the image to the full post which suits me best. This could be custom-coded in Lightbox with Photoswipe but my other lightbox does Facebook sharing the way I want it out of the box.
• EXIF information. EXIF info is a huge plus for Lightbox with Photoswipe but unfortunately the visual presentation is pretty awful. Arno should take a look at how Jordy Meow presents EXIF info in Meow Lightbox Pro. Looks great on desktop! (Arno should not look at the incredibly slow-loading and clumsy code though. Meow Lightbox knocks my site down 25 to 30 points in Google Page Insights all by itself, and behaves strangely on mobile which is why I pulled the otherwise attractive and easy to use Meow Lightbox from my sites.)

In favour of Lightbox for Photoswipe:

• In Lightbox for Photoswipe’s favour, the sharing buttons are much more elegantly handled. Except that neither the share nor close buttons work in landscape mode at least on my iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 13. Broken touch buttons is a serious issue as it will frustrate end users. Arno should fix this issue ASAP.

I went back and forth three or four times with ARI fancybox (which I already owned) and Lightbox for Photoswipe, with extensive Facebook sharing testing and mobile testing. The contest was closer than the list above shows. Both plugins are robust on mobile, allowing turning the phone around and quick swiping between images reliably.

It’s a thankless job building pro-level free lightbox plugins. Arno Welzel has done an extraordinary job with Lightbox for Photoswipe. Five stars with room for improvement.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Foliovision: Making the web work for you.
• This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Foliovision: Making the web work for you. Reason: html formatting

Rating: 5 stars

I’ve tried many lightboxes over the years and I’ve found I have to add a lot of CSS to improve them. This is a super lean lightbox. This one works out of the box. My only suggestion is to improve accessibility. Suggestions: Ability to disable autohiding of the arrows, larger arrows.

Rating: 5 stars

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• This topic was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by R. Fuchs.
• This topic was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by R. Fuchs.