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image plugins
902 plugins in the directory carry the image tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
902
plugins
1,973,690+
combined reach
124
released in 90 days
74%
quiet 18 months+
4
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug 2026 | AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild | 30,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 23 Aug 2026 | Image Comparison | 300+ | released after a long silence |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Image Gallery Block | 4,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Image Meta | 10+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firelight Lightbox Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups. | 200,000+ | 4.8★ | 2 months ago |
| Imsanity Automatically resizes huge image uploads. Are contributors uploading huge photos? Tired of manually resizing your images? Imsanity to the rescue! | 200,000+ | 4.9★ | 17 days ago |
| Image Widget A simple image widget that uses the native WordPress media manager to add image widgets to your site. | 100,000+ | 4.9★ | 5 months ago |
| Menu Image, Icons made easy Adds an image or icon in the menu items. You can choose the position of the image (after, before, above, below) or even hide the menu item title. | 100,000+ | 4.5★ | 14 months ago |
| reSmush.it : The original free image compressor and optimizer plugin reSmush.it is the FREE image compressor and optimizer plugin - use it to optimize your images and improve the SEO and performance of your website. | 100,000+ | 4.3★ | 17 days ago |
| Responsive Lightbox & Gallery The most popular lightbox plugin and responsive gallery builder for WordPress. | 100,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 months ago |
| Simple Lightbox The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress | 100,000+ | 4.3★ | 6 months ago |
| All In One Favicon Easily add a Favicon to your site and the WordPress admin pages. Complete with upload functionality. Supports all three Favicon types (ico,png,gif). | 60,000+ | 4.5★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Default Featured Image Add a Default Featured Image for all posts & pages. | 60,000+ | 4.8★ | 3 months ago |
| Featured Image from URL (FIFU) Use remote media as the featured image and beyond. | 60,000+ | 4.6★ | 5 days ago |
| ImageMagick Engine Improve the quality of re-sized images by replacing standard GD library with ImageMagick. | 60,000+ | 4.4★ | 19 days ago |
| Simple Image Sizes This plugin lets you create custom image sizes for your site. Override your theme sizes directly on the Media settings page, regenerate thumbnails, an … | 60,000+ | 4.6★ | 21 days ago |
| Phoenix Media Rename The Phoenix Media Rename plugin allows you to easily rename (and retitle) your media files, once uploaded. | 50,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 months ago |
| Image Prioritizer Prioritizes the loading of images and videos based on how they appear to actual visitors: adds fetchpriority, preloads, lazy-loads, and sets sizes. | 40,000+ | 5.0★ | 12 days ago |
| Image Watermark Secure and brand your images with automatic watermarks. Apply image or text overlays to new uploads and bulk process existing Media Library images wit … | 40,000+ | 4.2★ | 2 months ago |
| LightPress Lightbox Simple, lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. Formerly the WP JQuery Lightbox. | 40,000+ | 4.6★ | 5 months ago |
| AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild Rebuild your media library one image at a time, without script timeouts - and optimise, replace, or write WebP and AVIF copies of your images. | 30,000+ | 4.8★ | 3 days ago |
| Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages Easily control whether the featured image appears in the single post or page view (doesn't hide it in archive/list view). | 30,000+ | 4.8★ | 4 months ago |
| Easy Watermark Allows to add watermark to images automatically on upload or manually. | 30,000+ | 3.7★ | 12 months ago |
| Advanced Custom Fields: Image Aspect Ratio Crop Field ACF field that allows user to crop image to a specific aspect ratio or pixel size | 20,000+ | 4.8★ | 11 months ago |
| Auto Upload Images Automatically detect external images in the post content and import images to your site then adding to the media library and replace image urls. | 20,000+ | 4.3★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Image Hotspot by DevVN Image Hotspot by DevVN helps you add hotspots to your images. | 20,000+ | 4.3★ | 9 months ago |
| Favicon Rotator Easily set site favicon and even rotate through multiple icons | 20,000+ | 4.3★ | 3 months ago |
| Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block Adds a simple & lightweight Lightbox to the standard WordPress Gallery & Image Block. No lock in and no dependencies. | 20,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Multiple Post Thumbnails Adds multiple post thumbnails to a post type. If you've ever wanted more than one Featured Image on a post, this plugin is for you. | 20,000+ | 4.7★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| No Right Click Images Disables right click context menu on images to help deter leeches from stealing images. | 20,000+ | 4.7★ | 22 days ago |
| WP Lightbox 2 WP Lightbox 2 adds stunning lightbox effects to images and galleries on your WordPress site. | 20,000+ | 4.4★ | 7 months ago |
| Cimo – Free Instant Image Optimizer & WebP Converter Unlimited free image compression and WebP conversion, done instantly as you upload them. No quotas, no external servers, no limits. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 26 days ago |
| Enable SVG, WebP, and ICO Upload This plugin will enable uploading SVG, WebP & ICO image files to WordPress sites. | 10,000+ | 4.6★ | 5 days ago |
| Hide Featured Image To Hide Featured Image on single post/page. | 10,000+ | 3.6★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| jQuery Pin It Button for Images Highlights images on hover and adds a Pinterest "Pin It" button over them for easy pinning. | 10,000+ | 4.6★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Meow Gallery Tired of slow, bloated gallery plugins? Here is the answer! ☺️ Polished, beautiful galleries that are blazing fast. No bloat. Enjoy! 💕 | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 20 days ago |
| Newpost Catch Thumbnails in new articles setting widget. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 18 days ago |
| PNG to JPG Convert PNG images to JPG, free up web space and speed up your webpage | 10,000+ | 4.7★ | 9 months ago |
| Simple Full Screen Background Image This plugin provides a simple way to set an automatically scaled full screen background image. | 10,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Advanced Image Styles Adjust an image's margins and border with ease in the Visual editor. | 9,000+ | 4.6★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Kama Thumbnail Creates post thumbnails on fly and cache the result. Auto-create of post thumbnails based on: WP post thumbnail OR first img in post content OR attach … | 9,000+ | 4.7★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Taxonomy Images Associate images from your media library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies. | 9,000+ | 4.4★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Replace Image Upload a new version of an image without deleting the old image attachment, so that references to the image remain intact. | 8,000+ | 4.6★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Get the Image An easy-to-use image script for adding things such as thumbnail, slider, gallery, and feature images. | 7,000+ | 4.3★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Image Rotation Repair The Image Rotation Repair plugin simply fixes image orientation based on EXIF data. This is primarily a patch for mis-oriented images delivered from … | 7,000+ | 4.6★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| DCO Comment Attachment Allows your visitors to attach files with their comments | 6,000+ | 4.9★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Leira Letter Avatar Automatically generate beautiful user avatars based on their initials. | 6,000+ | 4.9★ | 9 months ago |
| Media Focus Point The Media Focus Point Plugin ensures the key area of an image or video stays visible, regardless of resizing or layout changes. | 6,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| Nav Menu Images Display image as a menu item content. | 6,000+ | 4.2★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP Colorbox View image, video (YouTube, Vimeo), page, inline HTML, custom content in lightbox. Add jQuery Colorbox lightbox effect to your WordPress site. | 5,000+ | 4.3★ | 13 months ago |
| Algori 360 Image Algori 360 Image is a Gutenberg Block Plugin that enables you add interactive 360° images to your WordPress website. | 4,000+ | 4.6★ | 20 months ago · quiet |
| Author Avatars List/Block Display lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes. With Gutenberg support. | 4,000+ | 4.8★ | 30 days ago |
| AVIF Uploader – Upload, Display and Fix AVIF Images Upload AVIF images, display them correctly, and generate the sub-sizes WordPress leaves out. | 4,000+ | 3.4★ | 3 days ago |
| Exclude Image Thumbnails From UpdraftPlus Backups An UpdraftPlus extension that excludes image size thumbnails, generated by WordPress, from Updraft backups. | 4,000+ | 5.0★ | 19 months ago · quiet |
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