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FancyBox for WordPress

Name: FancyBox for WordPress
Rating: 4.6 (92 reviews)
Author: colorlibplugins

Seamlessly integrates FancyBox lightbox into your WordPress blog: Upload, activate, and you're done. Additional configuration optional.

FancyBox for WordPress ranks #947 among WordPress.org plugins with 30,000+ active installations, is #117 of 6,651 in the Media category, a 4.6/5 rating from 92 reviews, and was last updated Aug 7, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7.0.8 (Current: 7.1.4)

v3.4.2 Current Version v3.4.2

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 07 Aug, 2026

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#117 of 6,651 in Media Top 5% by installs Downloads -39.3% this week

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

4 known vulnerabilities on record · 2 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

May 13, 2025

FancyBox for WordPress [fancybox-for-wordpress] < 3.3.6 (closed)

CVE-2025-3662 · Fixed in v3.3.6
Dec 3, 2024

FancyBox for WordPress [fancybox-for-wordpress] < 3.3.5 (closed)

CVE-2024-5020 · Fixed in v3.3.5
Apr 5, 2024

FancyBox for WordPress [fancybox-for-wordpress] < 3.3.4 (closed)

CVE-2024-0662 · Fixed in v3.3.4
Feb 4, 2015

FancyBox for WordPress [fancybox-for-wordpress] < 3.0.4 (closed)

CVE-2015-1494 · Fixed in v3.0.4

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.4.2
Last Updated: Aug 07, 2026
Requires WP: 5.6+
Tested Up To: 7.0.8
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: colorlibplugins

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6
Reviews: 92
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and bloggers who want a lightbox effect for their images. It automatically applies the FancyBox lightbox to image thumbnails throughout the site, with optional customization of appearance and behavior.

Automatic thumbnail detection
Border customization
Margin width and color options
Zoom speed control
Animation type selection
Close button position setting
Overlay color and opacity
Image gallery grouping

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about FancyBox for WordPress

Three ways, and they stack: Set the image's Title in the media library or block settings — it appears under the image. Add a caption in the block editor — it is picked up automatically. Add data-caption to the link for longer or formatted text: Basic HTML such as <br>, <em> and <a> is allowed. Captions are sanitised before display, so scripts and event handlers are stripped.

Add class="nolightbox" to the link. Links from Envira Gallery and NextGen Gallery are skipped automatically so the two lightboxes do not fight. The lightbox looks wrong — the image is cut off, stretched, or barely visible Almost always another plugin or theme loading its own copy of FancyBox. Two stylesheets defining the same class names will fight, because FancyBox's CSS class names are shared. To check, open your browser's developer tools, look at the Network tab, and search for fancybox. If you see a .css file from anywhere other than /plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/, that is the conflict. Disabling the other lightbox, or the option in your theme that loads it, resolves it. 3.4.2 fixed the worst version of this, where the image collapsed to a thin sliver and videos played sound with no picture. Images loaded by infinite scroll or lazy loading do not open Fixed in 3.4.1. Thumbnails added after the page has finished loading — infinite scroll, lazy loading, AJAX filters — are now detected and bound automatically. Update if you are on an older version.

Yes, with a filter. Put this in your theme's functions.php or a site-specific plugin: add_filter( 'mfbfw_is_enabled', function ( $enabled ) { return is_page( array( 'portfolio', 'gallery' ) ); } ); Returning false means nothing loads at all — no CSS, no JavaScript. There are also built-in switches for mobile, WooCommerce shop pages and product pages under Behaviour.

Turn on Exclude PDF files under Behaviour and PDF links will open normally. Note that iOS Safari cannot display a PDF inside an overlay at all. If your visitors are mostly on iPhones or iPads, excluding PDFs is the more reliable choice.

Under Galleries, choose how links are grouped: All images on the page — one gallery for everything (default) Each gallery block — one gallery per block editor gallery Each post — one gallery per post on archive pages No galleries — every image opens on its own Custom expression — write your own jQuery selector

WooCommerce has its own product image zoom, so there are switches under Behaviour to turn the lightbox off on shop and product pages. Page builders vary. The plugin looks for links pointing at an image file, so builders that output normal image links work. Builders that render their own lightbox usually need theirs disabled first.

Translations come from WordPress.org language packs and install automatically. If your language is missing or incomplete, you can help at translate.wordpress.org.

It adds roughly 82 KB of minified JavaScript and 14 KB of CSS. Nothing is loaded from an external server. Define SCRIPT_DEBUG in wp-config.php if you need the unminified sources for debugging. If you only need the lightbox on a few pages, the mfbfw_is_enabled filter above avoids loading anything elsewhere.

The support forum or GitHub. A link to a page showing the problem makes it far quicker to diagnose.