Introduction
Create polished article galleries, product showcases, portfolios, video collections, maps, and rich-content popups with one responsive Joomla module.
Lightbox Content Popup 6.0 is a complete modern rebuild for Joomla 4, Joomla 5, and Joomla 6. It uses vanilla JavaScript and CSS, includes a clear administrator interface, and contains no jQuery, FancyBox, or animate.css dependency.
Visitors see attractive, responsive cards on the page. Clicking a card opens prepared article content, formatted HTML, video, maps, or an external iframe in a focused lightbox without leaving the current page.
Two flexible content sources
Joomla Articles
Build the gallery automatically from one or more Joomla categories.
- Sort by published, created, or modified date
- Sort by article ordering, hits, or random order
- Choose 1 to 24 articles
- Show or hide card image, title, intro text, and read-more hint
- Open the article image, intro text, full text, and content-plugin output
Manual Cards
Create each gallery card with its own image, caption, type, and content.
- Formatted HTML content
- YouTube videos
- Vimeo videos
- Google Maps
- Iframe URLs
Manual Cards are ideal for product details, team members, services, portfolios, promotions, video libraries, and location galleries.
Responsive gallery layouts
- Responsive Grid: Choose 2 to 6 desktop columns. The grid adapts automatically for tablets and phones.
- Horizontal Row: Cards share the available width without a horizontal scrollbar, wrap on tablets, and stack on phones.
- Vertical Stack: Display one full-width card per row.
Choose Light, Dark, Glass, or Brand cards. Then customise accent colour, radius, border, background, typography, spacing, image fit, image ratio, hover zoom, and caption overlay.
Modern lightbox presentation
- Light, Dark, and Brand lightbox themes
- Zoom, Fade, and Slide up effects
- Responsive width and maximum height
- Adjustable backdrop opacity and blur
- Popup-corner or window-corner close button
- Optional title bar and item counter
- Previous and next controls
- Optional navigation loop
- Left Arrow, Right Arrow, and Escape keyboard controls
- Reduced-motion browser support
Video, map, and iframe content opens edge to edge in a responsive media view. Long article or HTML content scrolls inside the popup while the background page remains fixed.
Share individual items
Enable shareable URL hashes to give every gallery item a direct link, for example:
#lightbox-189-2
Opening the URL automatically opens the matching item. Moving between items updates the hash without reloading or moving the page. Closing restores the original URL.
Stable, accessible experience
- Exact page-position restoration after closing
- Scrollbar compensation to prevent layout shifting
- Responsive controls that do not overlap content
- Mobile safe-area support
- Large touch targets
- Visible keyboard focus
- Accessible dialog and button labels
- Focus returns to the card that opened the popup
- Lazy-loaded gallery images
Clear administrator settings
Version 6.0 replaces the confusing legacy configuration with five logical tabs:
- Content Source
- Gallery Cards
- Lightbox
- Typography & Colors
- Advanced
The modern four-side padding control provides labelled Top, Right, Bottom, and Left inputs, linked or individual values, and px, rem, em, or percent units.
Demo presets
- Article Grid: Rich Joomla article popups with hero images
- Manual Cards: Formatted promotional content
- YouTube Strip: Auto-fitting video cards with edge-to-edge playback
- Glass Gallery: Square portfolio cards with a frosted style
- Dark Cinema: Dark presentation with window-corner close control
- Google Maps: Responsive location cards and map embeds
Compatibility
- Joomla 4, 5, and 6
- PHP 8.0 or newer
- Current Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge releases
- Responsive desktop, tablet, and phone layouts
Joomla 3 is not supported by version 6.0. Joomla 3 sites must continue using the legacy 5.x package.
Quick start
- Install
mod_lightbox_popup_6.0.zipthrough System > Install > Extensions. - Open Content > Site Modules > Lightbox Content Popup.
- Choose Joomla Articles or Manual Cards.
- Select a gallery layout and card theme.
- Select a lightbox theme and opening effect.
- Assign a module position and menu pages.
- Hide the standard module title, publish, and save.
Lightbox Content Popup 6.0: showcase content and open it beautifully.
Lightbox Content Popup
- Version:
- 6.0
- Developer:
- Infyways Solutions
- Last updated:
-
Jul 16 2026
2 weeks ago - Date added:
- Nov 19 2014
- License:
- GPLv2 or later
- Type:
- Paid download
- Includes:
- m
- Compatibility:
- J4 J5 J6
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