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javascript plugins
309 plugins in the directory carry the javascript tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
309
plugins
410,570+
combined reach
26
released in 90 days
85%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03 Sep 2026 | Easy Custom Code (LESS/CSS/JS) – Live editing | 100+ | changed hands |
| 26 Aug 2026 | Menu Description | 20+ | released after a long silence |
| 16 Aug 2026 | Massoftind Asset Manager | fewer than 10 | reopened |
| 05 Aug 2026 | Massoftind Asset Manager | fewer than 10 | closed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shortcoder — Create Shortcodes for Anything Create custom "Shortcodes" easily for HTML, JavaScript, CSS code snippets and use the shortcodes within posts, pages & widgets | 100,000+ | 4.9★ | 1 month ago |
| Async JavaScript Async Javascript lets you add 'async' or 'defer' attribute to scripts to exclude to help increase the performance of your WordPress website. | 70,000+ | 4.7★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Speculative Loading Enables browsers to speculatively prerender or prefetch pages to achieve near-instant loads based on user interaction. | 70,000+ | 5.0★ | 12 days ago |
| Scripts n Styles This plugin allows Admin users to individually add HTML, custom CSS, Classes and JavaScript directly to Post, Pages or any other custom post types. | 30,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| jQuery Updater This plugin updates jQuery to the latest stable version on your website. | 20,000+ | 4.5★ | 1 month ago |
| CSS & JavaScript Toolbox Add CSS, JavaScript, PHP and HTML code snippets to your site. | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 12 days ago |
| Custom CSS and JavaScript Easily add custom CSS and JavaScript code to your WordPress site, with draft previewing, revisions, and minification! | 10,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Raw HTML Lets you use raw HTML or any other code in your posts. You can also disable smart quotes and other automatic formatting on a per-post basis. | 10,000+ | 4.3★ | 22 months ago · quiet |
| Code Embed Code Embed provides a very easy and efficient way to embed code (JavaScript, CSS and HTML) in your posts and pages. | 10,000+ | 4.4★ | 17 days ago |
| Use Google Libraries Allows your site to use common javascript libraries from Google's AJAX Libraries CDN, rather than from WordPress's own copies. | 10,000+ | 4.4★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Web Worker Offloading Offloads select JavaScript execution to a Web Worker to reduce work on the main thread and improve the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric. | 10,000+ | 3.5★ | 12 days ago |
| WP Super Minify • Minify, Compress and Cache HTML, CSS & JavaScript A lightweight plugin that automatically minifies, compresses, and caches HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on demand to improve your website’s load speed. | 9,000+ | 4.1★ | 17 days ago |
| Scripts To Footer Move your scripts to the footer to help speed up perceived page load times and improve user experience. | 7,000+ | 4.7★ | 10 months ago |
| FancyBox Enables fancybox on all image links including BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, and PNG links. | 4,000+ | 2.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Add Code To Head Add custom JavaScript/HTML/CSS codes to the page head without editing the template. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 5 months ago |
| JS Archive List A JS widget (can be used in posts) for displaying an archive list with some effects. | 3,000+ | 4.8★ | 5 months ago |
| ReactPress – Create React App for WordPress Easily create, build and deploy React apps into your existing WordPress sites. | 3,000+ | 4.4★ | 17 months ago |
| WPGatsby WPGatsby is a free open-source WordPress plugin that optimizes your WordPress site to work as a data source for Gatsby. This plugin must be used in c … | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| WebberZone Snippetz – Header, Body and Footer manager The ultimate snippet manager for WordPress. Create and manage custom HTML, CSS, or JS code snippets and control where and when they are displayed. | 2,000+ | 4.8★ | 29 days ago |
| CoolClock Show an analog clock on your WordPress site sidebar or in post and page content. | 2,000+ | 4.7★ | 4 days ago |
| JS Categories List Widget A simple Gutenberg block and JS widget (can be called from posts) for displaying categories in a list with some effects. | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 5 months ago |
| Shadowbox JS Shadowbox is an online media vieiwing application similar to Lightbox and Thickbox but with more functionality. Supports all types of media. | 1,000+ | 4.6★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Shutter Reloaded Darkens the current page and displays an image (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller (10KB) and faster. | 1,000+ | 4.3★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Slideshow A shortcode for displaying a slideshow of image attachments for a post. | 1,000+ | — | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Custom CSS and JS Custom CSS and JavaScript allows you to add custom internal and external CSS and JavaScripts to individual posts. | 900+ | — | 16 years ago · quiet |
| Autover Autover plugin will automatically version your CSS and JS files in the generated html page (e.g. style.css?ver=1359464809). | 800+ | 5.0★ | 20 days ago |
| jQuery Image Lazy Load WP add jquery lazy loading to images | 800+ | 3.1★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Modernizr for WordPress This plugin adds the Modernizr to your WordPress installation. | 800+ | 3.4★ | 7 years ago · quiet |
| WP Deferred JavaScripts Defer the loading of all JavaScripts added with wp_enqueue_script(), using LABJS (an asynchronous javascript library). | 800+ | 3.2★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| WP Minify Fix [Fixed] This plugin uses the Minify engine to combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time. | 800+ | 4.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Async JS and CSS Converts render-blocking CSS and JS files into NON-render-blocking, improving performance of web page. | 700+ | 4.2★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Google Webfont Optimizer Makes your website faster by combining all Google Fonts in a single request. Your websites gets a higher PageSpeed score which is good for SEO. | 700+ | 3.7★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Custom CSS/JS WP Custom CSS JS plugin allows you to add any HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery or Tracking Pixel easily on your wordpress site right from your dashboard. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 18 months ago · quiet |
| Slimbox Enables slimbox 2.03 on all image links including BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, and PNG links. | 600+ | 5.0★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Smartslider Slide your content in and out | 600+ | 5.0★ | 18 years ago · quiet |
| JavaScript to Footer This plugin automatically moves JavaScript code to page footer, speeding up page loading time. | 500+ | 2.9★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Referrer Input for Contact Form 7 Contact Form 7 Addon that creates a cache-resistant input that contains the URL of the page the user visited before the contact form page. | 500+ | 4.2★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Slimbox Plugin Plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 18 years ago · quiet |
| Custom JavaScript Editor Add custom JavaScript to your site from an editor in the WordPress admin | 400+ | — | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Disable CSS JS Cache Prevent browser caching of CSS and JS files in WordPress and control static asset caching headers. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 2 days ago |
| Hide Text Shortcode Shortcode to hide text | 400+ | — | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Insert JavaScript and CSS Adds fields to the post and page edit pages that allow you to insert custom JavaScript or CSS for that post or page. | 400+ | 4.1★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| Smart JavaScript Auto Loader Load JavaScript files without coding | 400+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Live Custom CSS JS Code Editor Live Custom CSS JS Code Editor allows you to easily add custom CSS, JavaScript, Header, Footer Code to your site, straight from your WordPress Customi … | 400+ | 5.0★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| Tapfiliate Create, track and grow your affiliate program. Tapfiliate helps businesses and influencers grow together, through affiliate marketing. | 400+ | 4.2★ | 5 months ago |
| Advanced Speed Increaser Advanced Speed Increaser is a light weighted plugin to speed up wordpress website by using GZIP compression and setting header expiration for images. | 300+ | 3.8★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| Page Specific Scripts Simple and easy to use wordpress plugin to add jQuery/JS Scripts only to specific pages. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Specific CSS/JS for Posts and Pages With Specific CSS/JS for Posts and Pages you can add CSS or JavaScript files to a specific page or post. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 15 years ago · quiet |
| Easy p5.js Block Adds a Gutenberg block to easily add custom p5.js code in your pages and preview it as you edit. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 23 months ago · quiet |
| JinMenu The Jin Menu adds onclick event in wordpress custom link menu item, so that you can use your javascript/jQuery codes from wordpress menu. | 200+ | 3.0★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
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