Title: VenoBox – Lightweight & Responsive Lightbox Plugin Author: Nicola Franchini Published: February 16, 2024 Last modified: April 4, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/venobox/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=3037115) ![](https://ps.w.org/venobox/assets/icon.svg?rev=3037116) # VenoBox – Lightweight & Responsive Lightbox Plugin By [Nicola Franchini](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nicolafranchini/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/venobox.1.1.3.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/venobox/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/venobox/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/venobox/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/venobox/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/venobox/) ## Description Tired of slow, clunky lightboxes that rely on jQuery? VenoBox is the modern, lightweight, and performance-focused lightbox your WordPress site deserves. Built from the ground up with pure JavaScript, VenoBox is incredibly fast and avoids conflicts with other plugins. It intelligently calculates the best display size for your images, offers beautiful touch-swipe navigation for galleries, and seamlessly integrates with WooCommerce product galleries. ### Why Choose VenoBox? * ⚡ **Performance First (No jQuery):** Incredibly lightweight and fast-loading. It won’t slow down your site. * 📱 **Truly Responsive:** Smart image resizing and touch-swipe navigation provide a flawless experience on any device. * 🛒 **WooCommerce Ready:** Automatically enhances your WooCommerce product galleries with a beautiful and user-friendly lightbox. * 🎬 **Multimedia Support:** Works perfectly with images, videos (YouTube, Vimeo, HTML5), iFrames, and inline content. * 🎨 **Highly Customizable:** Easily change colors, styles, preloaders, and aspect ratios to match your brand’s design. ### Features * **Responsive Image Handling:** VenoBox sets itself apart by dynamically calculating the max width of displayed images and maintaining their original height, ensuring your visuals look stunning on any device. No more microscopic resized images on small screens – VenoBox guarantees an immersive user experience. * **Optional Image Resizing:** Take control of your visuals with VenoBox’s optional image resizing feature, allowing you to fit images perfectly within the viewport height. Tailor your content for an aesthetically pleasing and responsive display. * **Multimedia Versatility:** From images and iframes to inline content, VenoBox supports it all. Seamlessly integrate Vimeo, YouTube, and HTML5 video formats into captivating modal lightbox popups for a truly engaging user experience. * **Automatic Activation:** Let VenoBox do the heavy lifting by automatically enabling itself for all linked images and videos on your WordPress site. Enjoy hassle-free implementation and an instantly improved visual presentation. * **Touch Swipe Gallery Navigation:** Enhance user interaction with touch swipe gallery navigation. Your audience can effortlessly explore galleries with a simple swipe, creating an intuitive and enjoyable browsing experience. * **Keyboard Navigation:** Navigate through your content with ease using VenoBox’s keyboard navigation feature. Provide users with multiple ways to interact, ensuring accessibility and user-friendliness. * **Custom Preloaders:** Impress your visitors with custom preloaders that match your website’s style. Choose from a variety of options to create a seamless transition as your images and videos load. * **Custom Videos Aspect Ratio:** Fine-tune your video displays with custom aspect ratios, ensuring your multimedia content looks just the way you envision it. * **Customizable Colors and Styles:** Tailor the appearance of VenoBox to match your brand with customizable colors and styles. Maintain a consistent visual identity across your website, creating a cohesive and polished look. * **WooCommerce Compatibility:** VenoBox seamlessly integrates with WooCommerce product galleries, offering a streamlined solution for displaying your products with style and flair. ### 3rd party services **YouTube** If you enable VenoBox for videos and link YouTube videos, the plugin embeds the videos inside of your website with the following url: https://www.youtube- nocookie.com/embed/ Terms of service: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-terms- of-service **Vimeo** If you enable VenoBox for videos and link Vimeo videos, the plugin embeds the videos inside of your website with the following url: https://player.vimeo.com/ video/ Terms of servce: https://vimeo.com/terms ### Usage Enable VenoBox for Images and/or Videos inside the plugin’s settings section. Adjust style and gallery options in WP Admin > Dashboard > Settings > VenoBox ## Screenshots * [[ * VenoBox interface * [[ * Plugin Options * [[ * UI Style * [[ * Integrations * [[ * Disable VenoBox on specific post or page ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin folder `venobox` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress 3. Adjust the plugin settings in WP Admin > Dashboard > Settings > VenoBox ## FAQ ### How to group links for gallery navigation? Every WP image gallery will be treated as individual gallery; To group specific links add the following class to any parent element of the links ``` venobox-gall ``` ### How to reinitialize the plugin for dynamic links added to an already loaded page? Use this snippet once your new links have been added: ``` if (typeof window.VenoBoxPlugin === "function") { window.VenoBoxPlugin(); } ``` ### How to open remote content inside iFrames? Add the class `venobox-iframe` to your links ### How to get results from ajax calls? Add the class `venobox-ajax` to your links ### How to open inline content inside iFrames? Add the class `venobox-inline` to your links ### Can the images be resized to fit within the viewport height? Yes, with the global option `Fit view`, or to individual links or group of links adding the class `venobox-fitview` to one of their containers ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/de224fea143b61002f4a97f90c947d5178211d3e8cbb793e7059d3cf9b143c79? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Fantastic plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-plugin-2085/)󠁿 [Dejan Buric](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dejanburic/) November 9, 2025 Fantastic plugin. Just what I need. It can open a video in a lightbox by clicking on the text, button or image that the video is linked to. The size of the opened video is perfectly adjusted. Almost full screen, so it can be seen perfectly. The same goes for opening images. It is also very important that the plugin does not slow down the site at all. [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/venobox/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “VenoBox – Lightweight & Responsive Lightbox Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Nicola Franchini ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nicolafranchini/) “VenoBox – Lightweight & Responsive Lightbox Plugin” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/venobox/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “VenoBox – Lightweight & Responsive Lightbox Plugin” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/venobox) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/venobox/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/venobox/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/venobox/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/venobox/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.1.2 * Update: tested up to WP 6.9 #### 1.1.1 * Fix: Error on activation #### 1.1.0 * Update: Minor fix #### 1.0.9 * Update: Tested up to WP 6.8 * Update: Minor improvements #### 1.0.8 * Update: Group links to create custom galleries #### 1.0.7 * Update: Public window.VenoBoxPlugin() to re-initialize #### 1.0.6 * Update: test compatibility with WP 6.7 #### 1.0.5 * Update: venobox.js to 2.1.8 #### 1.0.4 * Update: venobox.js to 2.1.7 * Update: New option Style > Initial scale * Update: New option Style > Transition speed #### 1.0.3 * New: initialize iframes, inline content and ajax calls with `venobox-`classes * Update: venobox.js to 2.1.6 * Update: prefix settings fields * Update: escape output * Update: 3rd party services documentation #### 1.0.2 * Update VenoBox.js to 2.1.3 * Update: Tab navigation for settings page * Update: FitView option as class venobox-fitview * Update: prevent direct access to files #### 1.0.1 * Update: VenoBox.js to 2.0.9 #### 1.0.0 * First release ## Meta * Version **1.1.3** * Last updated **2 weeks ago** * Active installations **100+** * WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * PHP version ** 5.3 or higher ** * Languages * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/venobox/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/venobox/), and [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/venobox/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/venobox) * Tags * [gallery](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gallery/)[lightbox](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/lightbox/) [modal](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/modal/)[popup](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/popup/) [woocommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/venobox/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/venobox/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/venobox/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/venobox/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/venobox/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/venobox/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/venobox/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/venobox/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Nicola Franchini ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nicolafranchini/) ## Support Got something to say? 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