Description
An easy way to integrate either v1 or v2 of lightGallery JavaScript to WordPress. lightGallery is a lightweight, modular, JavaScript library for creating beautiful image & video galleries for the web and the mobile
Features
In Settings > Simple lightGallery you can find several options to control in which parts of your site the lightGallery will be loaded.
Some of lightGallery core features (taken from lightGallery officially site)
- Fully responsive.
- Modular architecture with built in plugins.
- Highly optimized for touch devices.
- Mouse drag supports for desktops.
- Double-click/Double-tap to see actual size of the image.
- Animated thumbnails.
- Social sharing.
- And many more.
Usage
- Select in which post_types and taxonomies you want the lightGallery to be loaded.
- Make sure you are using the correct markup and the appropriate initialization for your galleries.
- If you want to use lightGallery with WP native
[gallery]shortcode make sure to use it with the optionlink="file".
- For more usage tips, go to lightGallery officially site
Screenshots
lightGallery Customization Options using v1 of the script 
lightGallery Customization Options using v2 of the script
Installation
- Install and activate Simple lightGallery plugin
- Either use your own markup and code to initialize it on the frontend or enable the support for the WP
[gallery]shortcode.
Credits
Reviews
ነሓሰ 19, 2024
I’ve experimented with dozens of galleries, this is certainly one of the best in WordPress. Very light weight, loads fast, displays photos how I’d like, works with mobile/touch screen monitor, has URL hash for linking, displays nice thumbnails, navigates very well, and friendly tech support. Thank you for developing this and swiftly addressing things. 🙂
ነሓሰ 17, 2024
This plugin is simple, lightweight, and has great support! It worked exactly as described and now my galleries are beautiful and accessible!
Contributors & Developers
“Simple lightGallery” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.7.2
- Fix: Remove jQuery dependency from v2 code
1.7.0
- Update lightGallery to version 2.7.2
1.6.1
- Fix: Hash plugin is not working on multiple galleries.
- Fix: Image captions are not shown at slideshow.
1.6.0
- Fix: lightGallery v2 Plugins are not working.
1.5.1
- Code cleaning…
1.5.0
- Replace jQuery Chosen library with Select2
- Add the option to auto-include the needed inline js code (for V1 only!)
1.4.0
- Update lightGallery to version 2.7.0
1.3.0
- Update lightGallery to version 2.3.0
1.2.0
- Add the option to use lightGallery with WP native
[gallery]shortcode
1.0.1
- Cosmetic fixes
1.0.0
- First Release!