WordPress fancybox (wp-fancybox) free WordPress plugin

WordPress fancybox plugin adds fancybox lightbox effect to your WordPress website. The lightbox looks great on desktop as well as mobile devices.

WP fancybox Features

• Responsive lightbox popup using fancybox
• Designed with a mobile first approach so it looks great on desktop, mobile and tablet devices
• Quick and easy setup
• Support for common touch gestures such as double-tap, pinch-in and pinch-out (for image viewing), horizontal swipe for navigation etc
• Open lightbox popup from either a text link or a thumbnal image link
• Compatible with WordPress multisite
• Automatically recognize popular video sites such as YouTube, Vimeo for easy viewing in lightbox
• Support hardware accelerated animations for better performance
• Use a simple shortcode anywhere on your site (Post, Page, Homepage etc.)to pop up content in lightbox
• Graphics, including loading icons, are created with CSS to keep it lightweight
• Customize the visuals and layout using CSS

How to Use WP fancybox

Image in lightbox

Create a new post/page and use the following shortcode to create a text/image link which will open lightbox once clicked:

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"]

here, url is the link to the media file that you wish to open in lightbox and hyperlink is the anchor text/image.

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" hyperlink="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg"]

YouTube video in lightbox

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video"]

Vimeo video in lightbox

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://vimeo.com/1084537" hyperlink="click here to pop up vimeo video"]

Caption in lightbox

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" caption="overlay image" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"]

Alternate Text for an Image

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" caption="overlay image" hyperlink="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg" alt="Thumbnail image description"]

Custom CSS

You can specify your own CSS class in the shortcode to customize a text/image link.

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class"]

Multiple CSS classes can be separated with a space. For example:

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class custom_class2"]

For detailed documentation please visit the WP fancybox plugin page