Responsive lightboxes for WordPress content

FooBox Pro presents website content in a modal overlay instead of sending visitors away from the page. It is designed for responsive layouts, scaling images for phones and rearranging button controls for portrait and landscape orientations. The plugin can work with WordPress galleries, captioned images, and attachment images, while the Pro edition extends the lightbox beyond standard image viewing.

What FooBox Pro adds

FooBox Pro works with video, iframe, and hidden HTML targets, making it possible to open more than image media in a lightbox. Video-poster controls help define the visual presentation for video content. Group blocks can also become hidden inline content that a FooBox Pro Button opens in a modal.

• Social sharing across more than 10 networks.
• Video, HTML, and iframe lightbox support.
• Deeplinking, fullscreen mode, and slideshow mode.
• Glass, Metro, and Flat lightbox themes.
• Glass theme custom color pickers.
• Five color schemes, 12 button icons, and 11 loader icons.
• 12 animation effects and more than 85 settings for customization.

Block editor controls

FooBox adds native controls to core Gutenberg Button, Image, Gallery, and Group blocks. Image blocks can be configured with media linking, captions, style, theme, gallery grouping, maximum dimensions, large-image panning, and FooBox Pro opening effects. Gallery blocks share style, theme, modern gallery grouping, and opening effects with their child Image blocks.

Button blocks can open images and automatically detected image URLs. With Pro, they can also open video, iframe, and hidden HTML targets. An opt-in compatibility setting enables FooBox to take over Image and Gallery blocks using WordPress’s own “Open in lightbox” option. These controls remain available in the block editor, so content can be prepared before upgrading without rebuilding it.

Practical uses

Use FooBox Pro to display portfolio images, product photography, gallery collections, demonstrations, embedded pages, or supplementary HTML without replacing the current page. Fullscreen and slideshow modes fit image collections, while deeplinking can support direct access to lightbox content. Social sharing gives visitors a way to share viewed content directly from the lightbox.

Installation and setup

Install FooBox Pro on a WordPress site, then use its block-editor controls when adding or editing Button, Image, Gallery, and Group blocks. Existing WordPress galleries, captioned images, and attachment images can open in the lightbox with no setup. The Auto Link Existing Images option can wrap older unlinked WordPress attachment images on the frontend, allowing visitors to open them without editing old content. You can also control when FooBox JavaScript and CSS assets are included or excluded.