Does the default WordPress gallery feel a bit too basic for your website?

By default, when visitors click on a gallery photo, it takes them to a completely new page. This breaks the browsing flow, hurts user experience, and makes your site feel slow.

Awesome Responsive Photo Gallery fixes this exact problem. It automatically upgrades your standard WordPress galleries into a beautiful popup lightbox.

No complex setup is needed. Just install the plugin, and your visitors can view photos and videos in a clean, interactive popup without leaving the page.

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How Does It Help You?

Automatic Upgrade: The plugin replaces the default gallery behavior with a modern lightbox instantly after activation.
Keep Visitors on Your Page: Users can click through your images in a popup slider instead of loading new pages.
Professional Look: Give your website a premium feel with smooth animations and a polished design.

🚀 Key Features

3 Unique Lightbox Styles: Choose between Awesome Gallery, LightCase, or Jet Gallery scripts to match your theme.
Video Support: Easily add YouTube, Vimeo, and HTML5 videos inside your gallery.
Mobile Friendly: 100% responsive design with swipe navigation for phone and tablet users.
Social Sharing: Visitors can share your photos directly to Facebook, X (Twitter), Pinterest, and LinkedIn.
Multiple Galleries: Add as many galleries as you want on a single page using unique Gallery IDs.
Editor Friendly: Works perfectly with both the Classic Editor and the Block Editor (Gutenberg).

🎉 What is New in Version 1.2.2?

We have listened to your feedback and added some highly requested features in this update:

Customize font sizes for thumbnail titles and captions.
Added new image hover effects (Shrink Rotate, Left to Right Half, Caption Fade in Middle).
Control the spacing between thumbnails inside the lightbox.
Toggle Font Awesome icons on or off to speed up page loading.
New database cleanup option to remove plugin data when uninstalled.
Overall code optimization for a faster backend and frontend experience.

Usage

Creating a gallery is very easy. Just follow these steps:

Go to Pages > Add New (or edit an existing page).
Click the Add Media button.
Click on Create Gallery on the left side and upload your photos.
Click the Create a New Gallery button at the bottom right.
(Optional) Add Titles, Alt Text, Descriptions, or Video URLs for your images on the right side.
Click Insert Gallery.
Now, add a unique ID to your gallery shortcode. For example: [gallery id="1" ids="10,11,12"].
Save or publish your page. Click View Page to see your new lightbox gallery!

Need to add another gallery on the same page? Just use a different ID like id="2".
You can find more detailed instructions on the Help Page inside the plugin menu.

Credits

License

This plugin is released under the GPLv2 license. You can find a copy of the license here.

Awesome Responsive Photo Gallery – Image & Video Lightbox Gallery