MetaSlider Gallery - Image Gallery, Lightbox Galleries, Modal Windows

MetaSlider Gallery is the ultimate WordPress gallery plugin. You can build an image gallery. You can also show your images, videos, and slideshows in a beautiful gallery window. Plus, MetaSlider Gallery is deeply integrated with the MetaSlider Slideshow plugin so you can create stylish sliders. The MetaSlider Gallery plugin allows you to show a wide variety of media inside a lightbox gallery window, including these:

• Images
• Image galleries
• Videos hosted on WordPress sites
• Vimeo videos
• YouTube Videos
• Featured images
• MetaSlider slideshows

You can really enhance your WordPress media with gallery windows. Visitors can view your images or videos and then open them inside a modal. This can make the image or video larger and also darken the background so it’s easier to focus on the media. Show your single images in a gallery window MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add gallery windows to images in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the gallery window to all images, or you can do it manually via the "Enlarge on click" setting. This works with both the block editor and the Classic Editor. You can also use this gallery window with page-builders such as Elementor, Divi, and Beaver Builder, thanks to the CSS feature. Click here to see more gallery windows with images. Show your image galleries in a stylish window MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add gallery windows to image galleries in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the gallery window to all images, or you can do it manually via the "Enlarge on click" setting. Each image in your gallery can get its own gallery window setting. Click here to see more gallery windows with image galleries. Show your videos in a gallery window You can use the MetaSlider Gallery plugin to show videos inside a gallery window modal window. The MetaSlider Gallery plugin supports videos hosted inside your WordPress media library. You can use MetaSlider Gallery to showcase your .MP4, .WebM, and .MOV videos. Click here to see more gallery windows with local videos. Show your YouTube videos in a gallery window MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add gallery windows to YouTube videos in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the gallery window to all YouTube images. You can use many different YouTube URL formats. There's a list of formats here. Click here to see more gallery windows with YouTube videos. Show your Vimeo videos in a gallery window MetaSlider Gallery allows you to add gallery windows to Vimeo videos in your WordPress post content. You can choose to automatically add the gallery window to all Vimeo videos Click here to see more gallery windows with Vimeo videos. Add a gallery window to your MetaSlider Slideshows The MetaSlider Gallery plugin connects deeply with the MetaSlider Slideshow plugin. A slideshow allows you to create a beautiful showcase of images or videos for your visitors. You can enhance your slideshow with a gallery window. Visitors can view your slideshow and then click on an image and see a larger, higher-resolution version of the image. Often the background is darkened so that the viewer’s eyes can focus on the image alone. Click here to see more gallery windows with MetaSlider slideshows. Design Options for MetaSlider Gallery The MetaSlider Gallery plugin has a wide range of design options to allow to customize the gallery window effect. You can customize the gallery window background and overlay appearance. You can choose the navigation icons (close, previous, next arrows) that appear in all gallery windows. You can modify the the “Open in lightbox window” option that can be added to media. Click here to see gallery window design options.

To install the plugin automatically:

• Through WordPress admin, use the menu: Plugin > Add New.
• Search for MetaSlider Gallery.
• Click on install then click the activation link.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog recommendations and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning. [2.23.0] - 28 Apr, 2026

• ADDED: Create a basic post type for MS Galleries, #308;
• ADDED: Allow users to enable or disable the gallery window on individual slides, #298;
• ADDED: Offer an icon instead of "Open in gallery window", #299;
• ADDED: Allow users to customize "Open in gallery window", #311;
• FIXED: gallery window icon doesn't work with custom color schemes, #295;
• FIXED: Featured image option doesn't work correctly, #300;
• FIXED: Autoplay description text, #297;
• FIXED: Layout labels are too long sometimes, #326;
• CHANGED: Plugin name updated to MetaSlider Gallery, #312;
• CHANGED: Plan for menus and settings, #313;
• CHANGED: Rename Hash URLs to Unique Image URLs, #282;
• CHANGED: Clarify width and height settings, #294;
• CHANGED: Change the default settings for "Open in gallery window", #320;
• CHANGED: Move title field to the left, #319;
• CHANGED: Make the gallery title field required, #322;
• CHANGED: Tooltips, #318;
• CHANGED: Translation updates for ES, FR, IT, #293;
• CHANGED: Translate into more languages, #307;
• CHANGED: ES-FR-IT translation updates for Metaslider-gallery window FREE and PRO on weblate, #327;

[2.22.0] - 28 Jan, 2026

• FIXED: Fix toolbar icon CSS selector affecting share dropdown icons, #261;
• FIXED: Include the MetaSlider logo, #283;
• CHANGED: Hash URLs, #282;
• CHANGED: Move sidebar setting to a new panel, #285;

[2.21.0] - 20 Jan, 2026

• ADDED: Test for accessibility, #1245;
• ADDED: Store plugin version and path in db, #264;
• ADDED: Pro Ads/Tab on Free, #262;
• ADDED: Pro Features promos, #263;
• FIXED: Italian, Spanish and French translation updates, #258;
• FIXED: Add Recursion Guard, #268;
• FIXED: Duplicate images, #269;
• FIXED: Dealing with small images, #236;
• FIXED: gallery window still being applied to a slideshow even if not enabled, #260;
• FIXED: Disable gallery window in thumbnails navigation, #191;
• FIXED: First Carousel Slide Shows Cropped Image in gallery window, #270;
• FIXED: Check Woocommerce products/gallery, automatic mode doesn't seem to work, #266;
• FIXED: Cursor is not a "mouse hand" for images below a gallery, #208;

[2.20.0] - 20 Nov, 2025

• ADDED: Detect Pro Version, #242;
• FIXED: Italian, Spanish and French translation updates, #241;
• FIXED: Allow users to change icon colors, #252;
• CHANGED: Match the MetaSlider settings, #179;
• CHANGED: Text updates for Behavior tab, #238;
• CHANGED: Text updates for Appearance tab, #237;
• CHANGED: Allow users to show the images in a larger size?, #214;
• REMOVED: Close Button Position Setting, #248;

[2.12.0] - 30 Oct, 2025

• ADDED: Redirect on install, #222;
• ADDED: Skip over items inserted in the page, #213;
• FIXED: gallery window appears on WooCommerce products even when disabled, #220;
• FIXED: Enlarge on click instructions are not correct, #216;
• CHANGED: Update Appearance Tab, #219, #218, #217;
• CHANGED: Automatic Mode/Manual Mode, #221;

[2.11.1] - 16 Oct, 2025

• CHANGED: Plugin Version, #210;

[2.11.0] - 16 Oct, 2025

• ADDED: Allow users to move the "Close" button and "Open in gallery window" button, #183;
• ADDED: Add Ability to Change "Open in gallery window" text in button, #127;
• ADDED: Allow users to switch to include or exclude, #174;
• FIXED: Post type exclusions not finding all post types, #196;
• CHANGED: Description accuracy, #188;
• CHANGED: Include the MetaSlider logo, #170;
• CHANGED: Add padding to right of settings area, #173;
• REMOVED: Translating screenshots, #184;

[2.10.0] - 29 Sep, 2025 ADDED: Different settings for different post types, #121; ADDED: Add an option to hide or show slide Image Title Text, #132; ADDED: Add ability to use MetaSlider slide to show gallery window instead of button, #128; ADDED: Add settings for manual options, #155; ADDED: Add settings for button text colors, #162; CHANGED: Behavior Tab should be for all options (manual and automatic), #152; FIXED: Custom HTML: Images are zoomed in gallery window when using mobile portrait, #104; FIXED: Layer Slides: Open in gallery window button overlaps with Play / Pause button, #119; FIXED: Layer Slides: Text layers are too big when on mobile (portrait and landscape), #105; FIXED: gallery window not working on content-based videos, #157; FIXED: Menu conflict when Firelight gallery window is installed, #142; FIXED: Vimeo with lazyload enabled, #83; [2.0.0] - 24 Jul, 2025

• ADDED: LightGallery.js implementation with built-in gallery window functionality, #70;
• ADDED: Admin settings page with color customization options, #49;
• ADDED: Thumbnail navigation toggle, #58;
• ADDED: Video support for local and external videos with Video.js integration, #85;
• ADDED: WordPress "Enlarge on click" override functionality, #50;
• ADDED: CSS per MetaSlider theme for better mobile compatibility, #77;
• ADDED: Tab focus accessibility on "Open in gallery window" buttons, #86;
• ADDED: Icon hover color picker option, #114;
• FIXED: gallery window animation smoothness when opening/closing, #41;
• FIXED: Arrows and close button visibility on mobile/tablet, #43;
• FIXED: Thumbnail navigation overlapping main image, #58;
• FIXED: Slide images being always linked, #62;
• FIXED: Clear button alignment issues, #72;
• FIXED: Color picker functionality without MetaSlider installed, #75;
• FIXED: PHPCS errors and security issues, #89;
• FIXED: External video loading issues, #107;
• FIXED: Post feed "Open in gallery window" button clickability on mobile,

106;

• FIXED: Custom HTML slide display issues, #101;
• FIXED: Layer slide text sizing on mobile, #105;
• FIXED: MetaSlider theme compatibility (Radix, Databold, Highway), #91,

109;

• FIXED: Close button display on desktop, #45;
• FIXED: Unable to save disabled "Open in gallery window" setting, #42;
• CHANGED: Made gallery window addition automatic for better UX, #38;
• CHANGED: UI improvements and dropdown labels, #60;
• CHANGED: Menu and save button design consistency, #113;

[1.13.4] - 14 Mar, 2025

• CHANGED: Remove discontinued gallery window plugins on description list;

[1.13.3] - 13 Mar, 2025

• CHANGED: Remove active installation stats on readme;

[1.13.2] - 10 Jul, 2024

• ADDED: metaslider_admin_notices hook, #26;

[1.13.1] - 12 Oct, 2021

• FIXED: gallery window setting is broken if using MetaSlider v3.27.13, #18;
• CHANGED: Remove Extendify library;

[1.13.0] - 13 Jul, 2021

• CHANGED: Update the library.

[1.12.2] - 7 Jul, 2021

• FIXED: Bug fixes.
• ADDED: Adds option to disable the library.

[1.12.1] - 17 May, 2021

• FIXED: Bug fixes.

[1.12.0] - 28 Apr, 2021

• ADDED: Adds access to the Extendify template and pattern library.

[1.11.3] - 22 Aug, 2020

• CHANGED: Updates readme and team account info.

[1.11.2] - 09 Apr, 2020

• CHANGED: De-prioritizes recommendation for Responsive gallery window by dFactory due to inactivity.

[1.11.1] - 14 Aug, 2019

• FIXED: Fixes issue where the setting wouldn't save properly.

[1.11.0] - 8 Jul, 2019

• ADDED: Adds support for Gallery Manager Pro.

[1.10.4] - 30 Apr, 2019

• CHANGED: Adds unique class name to admin notices.

[1.10.3] - 04 Jan, 2019

• FIXED: Fixes a bug where WP-Featherlight would not load as a gallery.

[1.10.2] - 14 Jul, 2018

• CHANGED: Updates settings page for WP gallery window 2 to match their update.

[1.10.1] - 16 Mar, 2018

• FIXED: Updates how gallery window plugins are checked for activation.
• FIXED: Addresses a bug that checks for previous slider settings.
• FIXED: Removes an incompatible gallery window plugin (duplicate name).

[1.10.0] - 16 Mar, 2018

• ADDED: Adds support for additional gallery window plugins.
• CHANGED: Refactors gallery window to clean up attribute function.
• CHANGED: Refactors various parts of the code to extract supported plugin data.
• CHANGED: Extracts the class MetaSlidergallery windowPlugin to its own file.
• CHANGED: Changes the logic for check if the plugin is install and active.
• CHANGED: Adds a CSS class to the container that identifies the active gallery window plugin.
• CHANGED: Adds filters to let users manipulate the plugin use.
• CHANGED: Refactors gallery window to clean up attribute function.

[1.9.3] - 14 Nov, 2018

• CHANGED: Fix checks to slide URL.
• FIXED: FooBox Pro compatibility update.
• FIXED: Updates the FooBox Profile name.
• FIXED: Update Gallery Manager plugin settings.

[1.9.2] - 26 Jan, 2018

• CHANGED: Update translation strings.
• CHANGED: Adds warning message when no gallery window is active.

[1.9.0] - 28 Mar, 2017

• FIXED: Simple gallery window use slide caption instead of attachment caption.

[1.8.0] - 16 Mar, 2017

• FIXED: Update slide image URL to comply with new slide post type.

[1.7.0] - 09 May, 2016

• FIXED: Removes defunct gallery window Plus plugin link (thanks to @Hendrik57).

[1.6.0] - 01 Apr, 2015

• ADDED: Adds support for FooBox Image gallery window and WP gallery window 2 Pro versions.

[1.5.0] - 30 Jan, 2015

• ADDED: Adds support for FooBox Image gallery window and Responsive gallery window by dFactory.

[1.4.0] - 15 Dec, 2014

• FIXED: Hides dependency warning in admin if WP Video gallery window is activated (reported by and thanks to: vfontj).

[1.3.0] - 28 Oct, 2014

• ADDED: Adds support for Fancy Gallery gallery window plugin (suggested by and thanks to: Zim1).

[1.2.0] - 17 Sep, 2014

• ADDED: Support for additional gallery window plugins.

[1.1.0] - 22 Aug, 2014

• FIXED: Array assignment compatibility PHP < v5.4 (reported by and thanks to: andrea_montuori).

[1.0.0] - 15 Aug, 2014

• ADDED: Initial version.