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Meow Lightbox
A sleek choice for photographers who want to show off their EXIF data.
HealthyGrowing
96/100
This lightweight plugin provides excellent EXIF data display for photography portfolios.
Active installs
~19,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.9★
183 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+50%
Growing fast
70 → 105 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +50% in the last year
70/day a year ago→105/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMeow Lightbox is broadly well-received for its ease of use, cross-device responsiveness, and configurability, with one notable complaint around confusing cache-related settings.
What people like
- +Works reliably across keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen with a responsive, intuitive UX×3
- +Collects all images from a post automatically, even when separated by paragraphs — something competing plugins reportedly struggle with
- +Good range of options available in the free version, with a fair free/paid split×2
- +Ability to target or exclude specific CSS classes for automatic lightbox activation, described as highly ergonomic
- +Lightweight and works well out of the box with minimal setup×4
- +Compatible with Full Site Editing (FSE) and works well alongside Meow Gallery×2
- +Developer is responsive and friendly when support is needed×2
Common complaints
- −Cache settings are confusing and counterintuitive: enabling 'Disable Cache' hides the Reset Cache button, making it difficult to refresh edited captions
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.92★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 3%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 183 total
Latest reviews · 183 analyzed
- 2026-05-29★★★★★Does what is saysFormidlerLone
- 2026-05-25★★★★★Funzina correttamente, visualizzazione rapida delle immaginigpcammino
- 2026-05-17★★★★★By far the best lightbox plugin for WordPresskaiyoma
- 2026-04-16★★★★★Cache – Disablelenswanderings
- 2026-04-04★★★★★Very goodpopkaraie
- 2026-03-13★★★★★Excellent toolWalter Viana
- 2026-03-11★★★★★Good and reliable app (and the Meow app collection in general)ac1643
- 2026-03-11★★★★★AwesomeCayce
- 2026-03-04★★★★★Great plugin!what1
- 2026-01-30★★★★★Great plugin and great support 👍🏻DayDreamer
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Meow Lightbox
Top Media plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
102
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
150
Prior 7-day baseline
104
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,730
Mean release-day peak (30d)
213
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-32.0%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
8%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.00
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
93%
5★ share in analyzed sample
3%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+71%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.92 → 4.92★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered