Title: Lichtbild Gallery Author: tstone1 Published: August 27, 2026 Last modified: August 28, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/lichtbild-gallery/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3669191) ![](https://ps.w.org/lichtbild-gallery/assets/icon.svg?rev=3669191) # Lichtbild Gallery By [tstone1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tstone1/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/lichtbild-gallery.26.8.26.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lichtbild-gallery/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lichtbild-gallery/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lichtbild-gallery/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lichtbild-gallery/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lichtbild-gallery/) ## Description Lichtbild renders photo galleries as a justified grid whose geometry is settled in CSS before the images arrive, so nothing reflows as the page loads. The lightbox is imported on first click, which means a page full of galleries costs no JavaScript until somebody opens an image. #### What it does * **A justified grid that needs no JavaScript.** Every item is sized and grown in proportion to its own aspect ratio, so a row settles at one shared height with no measuring and no layout pass after loading. Fixed-column layouts are supported too. * **Grid images are WordPress derivatives with a `srcset`**, not the full-size original. * **PhotoSwipe 5, dynamically imported on first click.** Assets are enqueued only once a gallery has actually rendered, never site-wide. * **Per-image tags, filtered server-side.** The filter spans the whole gallery rather than the page currently rendered, so a tag that matches nothing on page one still works. * **Pagination** with AJAX, with a lightbox that can span every page. * **EXIF display**, read from the metadata WordPress already parsed at upload rather than by re-reading the file on every request. * **Deep links** that name the image rather than its position, so a shared link opens the same photograph regardless of the filter or page the recipient lands on. * **Blocks** for galleries and albums, plus shortcodes. * Intrinsic `width`/`height` on every image, so nothing shifts as the page loads. #### Migrating from Envira Gallery Lichtbild can read Envira Gallery’s records where they lie, without copying or converting anything, so you can compare the two by toggling a plugin. When you are ready, a migration on the settings screen moves the galleries onto Lichtbild’s own storage in place: post IDs never change, so existing shortcodes keep working, and existing permalinks keep resolving. Envira’s original records are left untouched, and the migration can be rolled back from the same screen. Lichtbild is **not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Envira Gallery or Awesome Motive . “Envira Gallery” is their product and their trademark. Lichtbild contains no Envira code; it names Envira only to describe what it can read and what it replaces. On a site with no Envira history, Lichtbild serves its galleries from `/gallery/`,`/ album/` and /gallery-tag/. A site migrating from Envira keeps Envira’s existing paths, so no indexed URL moves. Both are overridable through the `lichtbild_url_slugs` filter. ## Screenshots [⌊A justified grid. Every row settles at one height with no JavaScript and no layout pass after the images load.⌉⌊A justified grid. Every row settles at one height with no JavaScript and no layout pass after the images load.⌉[ A justified grid. Every row settles at one height with no JavaScript and no layout pass after the images load. [⌊Per-image tags, filtered server-side. The filter lists every tag in the gallery, not only the ones on the page currently shown.⌉⌊Per-image tags, filtered server- side. The filter lists every tag in the gallery, not only the ones on the page currently shown.⌉[ Per-image tags, filtered server-side. The filter lists every tag in the gallery, not only the ones on the page currently shown. [⌊The gallery editor: drag to reorder, with title, caption, alt text and tags per image.⌉⌊The gallery editor: drag to reorder, with title, caption, alt text and tags per image.⌉[ The gallery editor: drag to reorder, with title, caption, alt text and tags per image. [⌊The lightbox, showing the EXIF WordPress already parsed at upload.⌉⌊The lightbox, showing the EXIF WordPress already parsed at upload.⌉[ The lightbox, showing the EXIF WordPress already parsed at upload. ## Blocks This plugin provides 2 blocks. * Lichtbild Gallery Places an existing Lichtbild gallery in the post. * Lichtbild Album Places an existing Lichtbild album in the post. ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin to `wp-content/plugins/lichtbild-gallery` and activate it. 2. Galleries appear under **Lichtbild** in the admin menu. Create one, add images, and drag to order them. 3. Embed it with the **Lichtbild Gallery** block, or with `[lichtbild-gallery id=" 123"]`. If Envira Gallery is installed, Lichtbild stays out of its way: the takeover setting under **Settings Lichtbild** defaults to handling `[envira-gallery]` only while Envira is inactive. ## FAQ ### Does it need a page builder or a build step? No. There is no bundler and no npm dependency at runtime. PhotoSwipe is bundled. ### Is the source of the bundled JavaScript included? Yes. Nothing here is generated: every file the plugin ships is the source. PhotoSwipe 5.4.4 is vendored under `assets/vendor/photoswipe/` with its MIT licence, and the unminified `.esm.js` sources sit beside the `.esm.min.js` files they were minified from. ### Will migrating from Envira change my URLs? No. The migration renames post types in place and pins the URL paths to the ones already published, so permalinks and shortcodes keep resolving to the same galleries. ### Can I go back? Yes. The migration leaves Envira’s own records untouched and can be rolled back from the settings screen, which restores the original post types rather than reconstructing them. ### Where are per-image tags stored? On the attachment, as a taxonomy, so tagging an image affects it everywhere it appears rather than only in one gallery. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Lichtbild Gallery” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ tstone1 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tstone1/) “Lichtbild Gallery” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/lichtbild-gallery/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Lichtbild Gallery” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/lichtbild-gallery) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lichtbild-gallery/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/lichtbild-gallery/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/lichtbild-gallery/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/lichtbild-gallery/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 26.8.26 * Fixed: on a new installation, gallery, album and tag permalinks returned 404 until the permalink settings were saved again. The rules are now rebuilt when the plugin is activated. #### 26.8.25 * Fixed: deleting the plugin and installing it again could leave migrated galleries in the database but invisible. They are found again automatically. * Fixed: an album could be made to store a gallery its editor had no permission to open, and the gallery and album pickers listed other authors’ unpublished items. * Fixed: the message shown when a gallery page fails to load was empty, and a failed lightbox load stopped every later image from opening until the page was reloaded. * Fixed: tag filter buttons now report which one is selected to screen readers. * The migration now warns when a setting it copies alongside the galleries cannot be written. #### 26.8.24 * Renamed to Lichtbild Gallery. The former name was too close to plugins already in this directory. Nothing a visitor sees changed: gallery, album and tag URLs stay where they are and the `[envira-gallery]` shortcode keeps working. * Galleries, albums and image tags now live under Lichtbild’s own post types and meta keys. #### 26.8.23 * Envira Gallery’s `[envira-gallery]` and `[envira-album]` shortcodes are now taken over only on a site that has Envira records. A site that never used Envira registers only Lichtbild’s own two shortcodes; a site continuing an Envira installation is unaffected. * The `lichtbild_config_sanitize` filter no longer receives the raw form submission as a second argument. Callbacks get the sanitised settings only. #### 26.8.22 * Per-gallery Custom CSS has been removed, in line with the Plugin Directory guideline against storing and printing arbitrary CSS entered through a plugin’s own interface. Style your galleries in Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS instead: a gallery is `#lichtbild-` and its wrapper `#lichtbild--wrap`, so existing rules keep working once moved. * The upgrade itself deletes no CSS, and `tools/export-custom-css.py` in the source repository prints what is still stored, ready to paste. Move it before you next save an affected gallery: saving rewrites that gallery’s settings record, which is where the most recent version of the CSS lives on a site migrated from Envira Gallery. * Translations now come from translate.wordpress.org rather than a catalogue bundled in the plugin. #### 26.8.21 * A gallery created on a site that never had Envira Gallery now renders on its own permalink. It answered with the page title and none of its photographs, because the setting that governs this fell back to a value only a site migrating from Envira has. #### 26.8.20 * The currently selected button in the tag filter is legible again. It had been painted in the same colour as its own background, so the applied tag could not be read. Themes can now set the pair through the `--lichtbild-tag-fill` and `-- lichtbild-tag-label` custom properties. #### 26.8.19 * Pagination, tag filtering and the lightbox no longer stop working on sites that use full-page caching, where the nonce a logged-out visitor holds is routinely older than the page. * Deep links to a single image that were shared before the plugin was renamed resolve again. #### 26.8.18 * Generic URL paths by default for new installs; sites with an Envira history keep the paths they already publish, recorded once rather than re-derived. * Bundled translations are loaded explicitly, so they apply on WordPress 6.x as well as 7. * Fixed converted custom CSS targeting a gallery’s wrapper, which produced a selector that matched no element. * A failed pagination request now says so instead of silently keeping the previous page. #### 26.8.15 * Galleries and albums are centred in the content column again. ## Meta * Version **26.8.26** * Last updated **18 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.0.4** * PHP version ** 8.1 or higher ** * Languages * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lichtbild-gallery/) and [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/lichtbild-gallery/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/lichtbild-gallery) * Tags * [gallery](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gallery/)[image gallery](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/image-gallery/) [lightbox](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/lightbox/)[photo gallery](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/photo-gallery/) [photography](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/photography/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lichtbild-gallery/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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