NewAutomatically include FooBox frontend assets on saved posts that use enabled FooBox block editor controls when assets are excluded by default.
FixedHardened FooBox Pro social sharing requests to reject malformed input cleanly and prevent PHP fatal errors.
2.8.4
Updated 22 Jul 2026
NewAdded a Block Editor help tab to the FooBox Getting Started admin pages.
2.8.3
Updated 21 Jul 2026
FixedKept FooBox controls visible in the WordPress 7 block inspector's Content tab.
FixedApplied each Gutenberg Gallery block's selected FooBox style and opening effect to its lightbox instance.
2.8.2
Updated 21 Jul 2026
FixedImproved handling of encoded markup in caption titles and descriptions while preserving supported HTML formatting.
2.8.1
Updated 20 Jul 2026
Improvedupdated to Freemius SDK v2.13.4
Docs : clarified which Gutenberg content handlers and opening effects require FooBox Pro.
FixedSanitized WordPress caption titles and descriptions before rendering.
2.8.0
Updated 25 Jun 2026
NewAdded FooBox block editor controls for Button, Image, Gallery, and Group blocks.
NewAdded Button block support for image and auto-detected lightbox targets, plus FooBox Pro HTML content, iframe, and video targets.
NewAdded a media-library selector for the Button block "Lightbox URL or target" field.
NewAdded FooBox Pro Group block support for hidden inline FooBox content, generated HTML ids, and frontend hiding.
NewAdded Image block controls for media linking, captions, style, theme, FooBox Pro opening effects, gallery grouping, sizing, and large-image panning.
NewAdded Gallery block controls that mirror parent style, theme, FooBox Pro effect, and group settings to child Image blocks.
NewAdded an opt-in WordPress Lightbox compatibility setting so FooBox can take over core Image and Gallery blocks using WordPress's "Open in lightbox" option.
ImprovedAdded `data-foobox-group` grouping support for block-editor galleries without relying on `rel` attributes.
ImprovedAdded Block Editor Usage guidance to the readme and expanded the usage documentation.
2.7.44
Updated 27 May 2026
FixedFixed a PHP warning in the WP Rocket compatibility layer when inline defer exclusions are passed as an array.
FixedPrevented Google Analytics tracking handlers from throwing JavaScript errors when a FooBox item URL is missing.
2.7.43
Updated 14 May 2026
NewAdded an Auto Link Existing Images setting to automatically wrap unlinked WordPress attachment images so older posts can open in FooBox.
NewAdded Admin notice on FooBox Settings page to ask if you want to enable Auto Linking for old content.
2.7.42
Updated 19 Jan 2025
NewAdded new Glass lightbox theme.
NewAdded custom custom option, plus ability to select with color with picker.
ImprovedUpdated settings page to include Launch Demo button when settings are saved.
ImprovedUpdated Getting Started page to include Glass theme demo and added animation demo buttons.
ImprovedMade sure all plugin check warnings were corrected.
ImprovedUpdated getting started admin page to include links to homepage and docs.
ImprovedFreemius SDK update 2.13.0
2.7.38
Updated 15 Sept 2025
ImprovedUpdated the settings page – moved promos and rate widget under Thanks tab (free only)
ImprovedFreemius SDK update 2.12.2
2.7.37
Updated 14 Sept 2025
NewAdded setting and admin notice for "Default Image Link", which allows users to set the default link for images that do not have a link set.
2.7.36
Updated 08 Aug 2025
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.5.3
ImprovedFreemius SDK update 2.12.1
FixedFixed bug where lightbox buttons were showing as non crawable in lighthouse.
FixedFixed bug with fatal PHP warning with Fotomoto integration.
2.7.35
Updated 03 July 2025
ImprovedUpdated the social sharing – removed unsupported networks, updated networks to use their latest icons eg. X.com instead of Twitter.com
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.5.2
ImprovedFreemius SDK update 2.12.0
FixedFixed bug where double escaped HTML was not being parsed correctly.
2.7.34
Updated 27 Jan 2025
ImprovedFreemius SDK update 2.11.0
FixedFixed bug where custom JS from settings was being double escaped.
2.7.33
Updated 10 Nov 2024
ImprovedFreemius SDK update 2.9.0
2.7.32
Updated 4 Aug 2024
ImprovedFreemius SDK update 2.7.3
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.4.13
FixedFixed parsing of HTML captions, so that it strips harmful scripts.
FixedFixed Fotomoto Integration which was not working.
FixedFixed escaping of custom JS settings.
2.7.29
Updated 1 June 2024
FixedFixed PHP error on admin settings page
2.7.30
Updated 8 July 2024
FixedFixed Fotomoto Integration not working.
FixedFixed escaping of custom JS settings.
2.7.29
Updated 1 June 2024
FixedFixed PHP error on admin settings page
2.7.28
Update 4 May 2024
ImprovedFreemius SDK update 2.7.2
Fixedenhanced sanitization for settings.
2.7.27
Updated 1 July 2023
ImprovedFreemius SDK to 2.5.10
2.7.26
Updated 10 April 2023
ImprovedFreemius SDK to 2.5.6
2.7.25
Updated 01 March 2023
ImprovedFreemius SDK to 2.5.3
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.4.13
2.7.24
Updated 03 March 2022
FixedUpdated request handling in wp-admin
ImprovedFreemius SDK to 2.4.3
2.7.22
Updated 15 Jan 2022
Fixedfixed Pinterest sharing not working in some cases.
2.7.20
Updated 5 Sep 2021
Fixedfixed REL Grouping not being output if set to "foobox"
2.7.20
Updated 08/09/2021
ImprovedFreemius SDK (develop)
Fixedfixed conflict with PHP 8 and Russian translation (within Freemius SDK)
Newadded "REL Grouping" setting under Advanced to be able to change the grouping of images using the rel attribute
Newadded "Custom Excludes" setting under Advanced to add custom excludes so that FooBox does not bind to certain elements
Newadded "Specific CSS classes" setting under General to allow specifying custom selectors that FooBox can bind to
2.7.19
Updated 27/12/2020
Newadded compatibility with Elementor custom captions
Newadded compatibility with WP Rocket to always exclude FooBox inline script to avoid javascript errors
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.4.6
Fixedcheck for null title when sharing to networks
2.7.17
Updated 19/12/2020
Fixedfix for loader appearing after the modal is closed in come instances
Fixedadditional jQuery 3+ compatibility – removed all deprecation warnings
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.4.5
2.7.16
Updated 01/12/2020
Fixedfixed settings page CSS due to conflict with some themes
FixedUpdated deprecated jQuery warnings in prep for WP 5.6
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.4.4
ImprovedFreemius SDK 2.4.1
2.7.15
Updated 20/10/2020
Update getting started page to include a CTA to open FooBox demo
Added new setting to force the FooBox trial notice admin banner to never show
Updated settings page with ratings CTA and included details of other plugins
FixedChanged social sharing tab ID to avoid conflict with other plugins
2.7.14
Updated 20/08/2020
Fixedfixed bug where FooBox was ignoring FooGallery filters
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.4.2
2.7.13
Updated 06/08/2020
NewSpeed improvements (replaced font with SVG images)
NewDropped support for IE7
ImprovedFreemius SDK 2.4.0.1
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS 2.4.0
2.7.11
Fixedfix for Fotomoto integration
ImprovedFreemius SDK 2.3.2
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS
2.7.8
FixedFixed share on pinterest when using bitly
Fixedturned off font preload by default
Fixedscrollbar bug in iOS13
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS
2.7.7
FixedMajor bug with lightbox not opening in v2.7.6. Please update!
FixedSlideshow was stopping after the Lightbox is closed
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS
2.7.6
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS
2.7.5
FixedFixed admin bug with certain galleries
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS
2.7.3
FixedFixed get_blog_list error
ImprovedFreemius SDK 2.3.0
2.7.1
FixedFixed swipe issues in Chrome
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS
2.7.0
NewReworked how FooBox loads, to work better with optimization plugins (Autoptimize / WP Rocket)
RemovedRemoved support for Google+ in social sharing
ImprovedUpdated to handle Chrome's new allow attribute in videos
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS
2.6.5
NewAdded support for SVG images
NewAdded support for WebP images
FixedFixed scroll blocking violation warnings in dev tools
ImprovedUpdated to latest FooBox client JS & CSS
2.6.4
FixedImproved plugin request validation and data handling
FixedIncluded font-display for improved pagespeed score
ImprovedFreemius SDK 2.2.4
2.6.3
Added support for loading FooGallery galleries within a FooBox
Fixed layout bugs with certain notched iPhones
Updated to latest client JS & CSS fixing a few bugs
Updated to latest Freemius SDK 2.2.3
2.6.0
Added support for the Gutenberg gallery and image blocks
Updated to latest Freemius SDK 2.1.1
Fixed bug with horizontal scrollbar
Fixed bug with paging + filtering in FooGallery
Forced Youtube videos to open using youtube-nocookie.com
Updated to latest client JS & CSS fixing a few bugs
2.5.3
Updated to latest Freemius SDK 2.0.1
2.5.2
Updated to latest client JS & CSS fixing a few bugs
Removed deprecated functions for PHP 7.2 compatibility
Updated to latest Freemius SDK 1.2.4
2.5.1
Dropped support for IE7 and IE8 (removing CSS validation errors)
Updated to latest client JS & CSS fixing a few bugs
2.5.0
Added new setting to exclude FooBox assets by default
Added metabox on all public post types to include/exclude FooBox assets
Major version bump to avoid confusion with FooBox PRO 2.4.0.0
1.2.34
Fixedlightbox was not working with FooGallery paging
Updated to latest client CSS
Updated to latest Freemius SDK 1.2.1.10
Removed FooGallery admin notices
1.2.27
Fixeddefault caption state was disabled when no settings were saved.
Updated to latest Freemius SDK 1.2.1.7.1
1.2.26
Fixeddisappearing captions. Renamed "Show Captions" setting to "Hide Captions" and default to disabled.
1.2.25
Added setting to disable captions
Added setting to change image counter text
1.2.24
Added better browser support for defer javascript loading added in 1.2.23
1.2.23
Added support for plugins that defer javascript loading, e.g. AutOptimize
1.2.22
Updated to latest JS and CSS fixing multiple issues and bugs
1.1.11
Updated to latest JS and CSS fixing some bugs
Updated to latest Freemius 1.2.1.5 SDK
Free trial for PRO now included in getting started page
1.1.10
Fix deactivation issue when PRO is activated
1.1.9
New setting for dropping IE7 support (for valid CSS)
Fix for when multiple jQuery versions loaded on page!
Fix for not including scripts for setting 'disable other lightboxes'
1.1.8
IMPORTANT : clear your site cache when updating – if you use a caching plugin.
Added clear cache message to getting started page
Removed duplicate settings page
Updated opt-in message
Fixedloosing scroll position when scrollbars are hidden
1.1.7
Integrated Freemius tracking and upgrade system
Moved FooBox into top-level menu item
Complete overhaul of Getting Started page, including demo
Updated to use latest FooBox JS and CSS
1.0.14
Hide foo admin notice on mobile devices
More CSS tweaks for admin on smaller screen sizes
1.0.13
Updated settings page to be responsive
Tested with WP 4.6
1.0.12
Updated to use latest FooBox JS and CSS
Removed discount for FooBox PRO
1.0.11
Updated to use latest FooBox JS and CSS
Updated settings to include demo tab
Updated admin screens be responsive on phones
1.0.10
Updated to use latest FooBox JS fixing few bugs
Smarter admin warnings when using with FooGallery
1.0.9
Updated to use latest FooBox JS fixing few bugs
Reorder selectors so FooGallery can take preference in some cases
1.0.8
Updated to use latest FooBox JS
Added new Getting Started landing page on activation
Added support for wp.org language packs
Better FooGallery integration
1.0.7
Updated to latest version of javascript and CSS files
Plays better with FooBox PRO now
1.0.6
Fixed navbar issues in Chrome on IOS
1.0.5
Fixed URL query handling with add_query_arg on the admin plugins page
1.0.4
Improved FooGallery support
Added keyboard navigation support!
50% offer included for PRO version
1.0.3
Added FooGallery support
Added .nolightbox to exclusions
Added .pot translation file
Added Bottomless design banner to "FooBot Says…" tab
1.0.2.1
Fixed jQuery dependency issue with themes that do not load jQuery by default
