by Sayontan Sinha 4.8 (193 reviews)

Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others

Name: Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others
Rating: 4.8 (193 reviews)
Author: Sayontan Sinha

Galleries on steroids! A stylish lightbox & gallery plugin for WP, Flickr, SmugMug and Zenfolio photos and videos.

Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others ranks #1,761 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #192 of 6,327 in the Media category, a 4.8/5 rating from 193 reviews, and was last updated Sep 14, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v3.36 Current Version v3.36

Updated 4 days ago Last Update on 14 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#192 of 6,327 in Media Top 5% by installs Downloads +650.2% this week Actively maintained

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#1,761

+3 this week

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10K+

-37%

KW Avg Position

18.6

0.4 better

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793.9K

+315 today

Support Resolved

33%

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Rating

96%

Review 4.8 out of 5

4.8 (193 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 57.5%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.8

193 reviews

Overall 96%

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

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

Jul 27, 2026

Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others [photonic] < 3.34

CVE-2026-66434 · Fixed in v3.34
Nov 17, 2025

Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others [photonic] < 3.22

CVE-2025-12691 · Fixed in v3.22

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.36
Last Updated: Sep 14, 2026
Requires WP: 6.2+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Sayontan Sinha

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8
Reviews: 193
Support Threads: 3
Resolved: 33%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to display photo and video galleries from Flickr, SmugMug, Zenfolio, and native WordPress sources with a lightbox viewer. It solves the problem of WordPress's limited built-in gallery by adding multiple external photo service integrations, many lightbox script options, and additional layout styles.

Flickr photos and albums support
SmugMug folders and albums support
Zenfolio photos and groups support
Multiple lightbox script options
Gutenberg block editor support
Gallery Wizard for building galleries
Video support for YouTube and Vimeo
Multiple gallery layout styles

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others

Obviously, your galleries will not show. If you are using Gutenberg you don't have to worry about anything. If you are not using Gutenberg and you are using the native gallery shortcode, you will not see any empty shortcode tags on your site. But if you are not using Gutenberg and you are using a custom shortcode that shortcode tag will now show up.

Yes, the plugin is working. Unfortunately the integration of Photonic with the visual editor is complex, and there is a likelihood of conflicts with other TinyMCE-specific plugins. If you come across such a conflict, please report it on the support forum. In the meanwhile you can disable the visual editing capability of Photonic (Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Disable shortcode editing in Visual Editor) and you should still be able to edit the gallery shortcode directly through the text editor.

Yes, the plugin is working. The issue you are facing is that you have another plugin (typically some sort of a lightbox plugin) that is modifying the markup generated by Photonic. Of course, it would be easiest if you were to disable that plugin. If a lightbox is all you need, Photonic's lightbox can be used to display regular photos as well, from your admin dashboard under Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Photonic Lightbox for non-Photonic Images. This will ensure consistency across Photonic and non-Photonic images. However, if you really wanted to keep that plugin, Photonic offers a way out there too! For each provider (e.g. Flickr, SmugMug etc.) go to the Settings page, e.g. Photonic → Settings → SmugMug → SmugMug Settings → Disable lightbox linking and set that option.

Suggestions are welcome for other photo-sharing platforms.

You mean apart from the 17 that Photonic currently supports?? If you have specific suggestions please feel free to contact the plugin author, but only pure JS, GPL-compatible lightbox scripts will be supported. Note that there have been slight modifications have been made to some of the lightboxes to make them play well with newer code.

The TinyMCE integration for the plugin is complex, predominantly since Photonic doesn't rely on a separate shortcode. This can cause potential conflicts with other plugins. If such a situation arises, please report it in the Support Forum, and disable the visual editor capability for the shortcode by specific post-types (Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Disable Visual Editing for specific post types). If that doesn't work, you can go thermonuclear on Photonic's visual editing (Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Disable shortcode editing in Visual Editor) - you will still be able to edit the shortcode using the Text Editor in WordPress. The "Mosaic" layout may sometimes show 1px wide gaps between images if you set the padding between images to 0. This happens due to rounding errors in the height and width calculations. To avoid this, it is recommended that you use a padding > 0 between images for this layout. Apart from these, while the plugin can handle pretty much whatever you throw at it, Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology states: There is always one more bug. Bug reports are welcome, and handled enthusiastically.

Yes, but only for the plugin front-end and the wizard. The Settings pages are not translated at this point. Also note that any strings included in the third-party JS scripts are not translated.