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images plugins
938 plugins in the directory carry the images tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
938
plugins
2,254,280+
combined reach
167
released in 90 days
68%
quiet 18 months+
9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03 Sep 2026 | WoowGallery | 1,000+ | reopened |
| 21 Aug 2026 | WoowGallery | 1,000+ | closed |
| 21 Aug 2026 | Simple Image SEO | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 11 Aug 2026 | SEO Media Manager | 5,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Image Meta | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 07 Aug 2026 | Fullscreen Galleria | 800+ | reopened |
| 05 Aug 2026 | Fullscreen Galleria | 800+ | released after a long silence |
| 04 Aug 2026 | Fullscreen Galleria | 800+ | closed |
| 03 Aug 2026 | Disable Attachment Pages | 300+ | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autoptimize Autoptimize speeds up your website by optimizing JS, CSS, images (incl. lazy-load), HTML and Google Fonts, asyncing JS, removing emoji cruft and more. | 800,000+ | 4.7★ | 18 days ago |
| WebP Express Serve autogenerated WebP images instead of jpeg/png to browsers that supports WebP. | 300,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 months ago |
| Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox A responsive image lightbox for WordPress galleries, WordPress attachments & FooGallery | 100,000+ | 3.9★ | 11 days ago |
| Responsive Lightbox & Gallery The most popular lightbox plugin and responsive gallery builder for WordPress. | 100,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 months ago |
| Modern Image Formats Converts images to more modern formats such as WebP or AVIF during upload. | 100,000+ | 3.5★ | 12 days ago |
| Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! Clean your WordPress! Eliminate unused and broken media files. For a faster, and better website. | 90,000+ | 4.6★ | today |
| Media Library Assistant Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit. | 70,000+ | 4.8★ | today |
| Image Placeholders Displays placeholders based on an image's dominant color while the image is loading. | 60,000+ | 3.5★ | 12 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 |
| Enhanced Responsive Images Improvements for responsive images in WordPress. | 50,000+ | — | 12 days ago |
| Crop-Thumbnails "Crop Thumbnails" made it easy to get exacly that specific image-detail you want to show in your featured image or gallery image. | 40,000+ | 4.6★ | 9 months 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 |
| Clean Image Filenames This plugin automatically converts language accent characters to non-accent characters in filenames when uploading to the media library. | 30,000+ | 4.6★ | 8 months ago |
| FancyBox for WordPress Seamlessly integrates FancyBox lightbox into your WordPress blog: Upload, activate, and you're done. Additional configuration optional. | 30,000+ | 4.6★ | 1 month ago |
| Optimus – WordPress Image Optimizer Effective image compression and optimization during the upload process. Smart, automatic and reliable. | 30,000+ | 4.2★ | 6 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 |
| Lightbox with PhotoSwipe Integration of PhotoSwipe (http://photoswipe.com) for WordPress. | 20,000+ | 4.9★ | 8 days ago |
| 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 |
| Attachment Pages Redirect Redirect attachment pages or return a 404 error for them based on the parent post status. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 8 months ago |
| Bellows Accordion Menu A flexible and robust accordion menu plugin | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 16 months ago |
| Disable "BIG Image" Threshold Disables the "BIG image" threshold introduced in WordPress 5.3. | 10,000+ | 4.2★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Disable Media Sizes Provides options to disable the extra images generated by WordPress. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| 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 |
| Lazy Load Lazy load images to improve page load times and server bandwidth. Images are loaded only when visible to the user. | 10,000+ | 4.0★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| Newpost Catch Thumbnails in new articles setting widget. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 18 days ago |
| SEO Friendly Images SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images improving traffic from search engines. | 10,000+ | 3.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Seo Optimized Images The SEO Optimized Images plugin lets you dynamically add SEO-Friendly "alt" and "title" attributes to your images. | 10,000+ | 4.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Disable Lazy Load Activate this plugin to disable the Lazy Loading feature that was added in WP v5.5. | 9,000+ | 4.5★ | 2 months ago |
| Lazy Loader Lazy loading plugin that supports images, iFrames, video and audio elements and uses the lightweight lazysizes script. With manual modification of the … | 9,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 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 |
| Multi Image Metabox Add a multi-image metabox to your posts, pages and custom post types | 7,000+ | 4.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| iOS images fixer Automatically fix iOS-taken images' orientation using ImageMagic/PHP GD upon upload. | 6,000+ | 4.6★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Superb Recent Posts With Thumbnail Images Responsive Recent Posts Widget With Images for WordPress. Lightweight & SEO Optimized Code. Free. | 6,000+ | — | 9 months ago |
| SEO Media Manager Automatically format media titles and optionally copy the result to alternative text, captions, and descriptions. | 5,000+ | 4.8★ | 2 days ago |
| FSM Custom Featured Image Caption Allows adding custom captions to the featured images of the posts. | 5,000+ | 4.6★ | 4 months ago |
| Media Hygiene: Remove or Delete Unused Images and More! The Media Hygiene plugin removes unused media from the WordPress library to free up space, reduce clutter, and improve server performance. | 5,000+ | 4.1★ | 3 months ago |
| Optimize Images Resizing Plugin optimizes the process of generating custom image sizes in WordPress and offers a cleanup functionality for preexisting images. | 5,000+ | 4.6★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| FancyBox Enables fancybox on all image links including BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, and PNG links. | 4,000+ | 2.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| AI WP Writer – SEO content generator, chatGPT, Gemini Create high-quality SEO posts, articles, AI images, WooCommerce products. Autofill website. Rewrite and translate with AI. Gemini, chatGPT, Claude | 3,000+ | 4.9★ | 1 month ago |
| Featured Galleries Do you like giving posts a Featured Image? Try out a Featured Gallery. It's like a Featured Images ... except as many images as you want. | 3,000+ | 4.7★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder Add stylish CSS3 hover effects with captions to images in WPBakery Page Builder. Create engaging animations that enhance your site’s visual appeal. | 3,000+ | 4.3★ | 12 months ago |
| Inline Image Upload for BBPress Upload inline images to BBPress forum topics and replies. | 3,000+ | 4.6★ | 18 days ago |
| Require Featured Image Requires content you specify to have a featured image set before they can be published. | 3,000+ | 3.9★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| Send Images to RSS Improve your RSS: for full text feeds, replace large site images with email friendly images. Customize summaries with images and beautiful excerpts. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| Thumbnail Upscale Enables upscaling of thumbnails for small media attachments | 3,000+ | 4.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| User Photo Allows a user to associate a photo with their account and for this photo to be displayed in their posts and comments. | 3,000+ | 4.3★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| WooCommerce Product Image Flipper Adds a secondary image on product archives that is revealed on hover. Perfect for displaying front/back shots of clothing and other products. | 3,000+ | 4.3★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| WOW Slider WOW Slider is a Wordpress slider with stunning visual effects and tons of professionally made templates. | 3,000+ | 3.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP-Cycle This plugin creates an image slideshow in your theme, using the jQuery Cycle plugin. You can upload/delete images via the administration panel, and di … | 3,000+ | 3.6★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
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