Lightbox breaks after WordPress core updates
The lightbox stops working or looks broken after WordPress core updates, and listed compatibility information is out of date.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 12 June 2025 · last reported 19 December 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners report that after updating WordPress core to a newer release, the lightbox stops opening images, and in one case linked gallery images open on a blank page.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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