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Responsive Lightbox
Simple lightbox magic with a side of privacy questions.
HealthyGrowing
74/100
This plugin offers simple lightbox functionality but lacks advanced features and has privacy concerns.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.6★
41 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+200%
Growing fast
6 → 18 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 10 months
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 · +200% in the last year
6/day a year ago→18/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayResponsive Lightbox is praised for its reliable, lightweight functionality and easy integration, but users note missing features like attachment support and occasional compatibility or security concerns.
What people like
- +Provides reliable basic lightbox functionality that works as expected×7
- +Simple, fast, and lightweight with minimal animations and icons×2
- +Allows use of normal HTML instead of shortcodes
- +Avoids conflicts with other lightbox plugins and lets you specify which to use
- +Responsive design works well on both desktop and mobile devices
- +Easy, no-brainer setup
- +Simple insertion into child themes
Common complaints
- −Does not support displaying attachments as modals with titles or descriptions
- −Lacks WooCommerce integration
- −Adds anonymous JavaScript and appears to collect site data, raising privacy concerns
- −Image loading can be slow, causing a noticeable delay before the large version appears
- −Contains minor bugs and text-domain issues that need updating for compatibility (since 4.7)
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.62★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 5%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-03-162025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 41 total
Latest reviews · 41 analyzed
- 2024-02-29★★★★★The best lightbox on the market!Bojan Denić
- 2023-05-10★★★★★Simple, works straight away and responsivedevgirl
- 2023-02-25★★★★★Yup, it works! Right out of the box.cloudybright1-shot
- 2022-08-21★★★★★Very nice plugin!mertoncel
- 2022-03-25★★★★★Doesn't support attachment linksjenwebb
- 2020-10-01★★★★★Did exactly what I needed – lightbox from text linkphirefly
- 2020-09-08★★★★★This plugin does not works with Woocommercesfilippov
- 2020-09-05★★★★★Simples e eficaz!Leo Antonioli
- 2019-12-08★★★★★A simple lightbox that works really wellbloup
- 2019-06-05★★★★★Goodnabe3san
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Responsive 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.
17
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
19
Prior 7-day baseline
15
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
43
Mean release-day peak (30d)
19
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-10.5%
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.
100%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
5.20
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
88%
5★ share in analyzed sample
5%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.63 → 4.62★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered