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jquery plugins
295 plugins in the directory carry the jquery tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
295
plugins
116,410+
combined reach
3
released in 90 days
92%
quiet 18 months+
1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Aug 2026 | jQuery UI Widgets | 1,000+ | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animate It! Add cool CSS3 animations to your content. | 20,000+ | 4.9★ | 10 months ago |
| jQuery Updater This plugin updates jQuery to the latest stable version on your website. | 20,000+ | 4.5★ | 1 month ago |
| Scroll Back To Top This plugin will add a button that allows users to scroll smoothly to the top of the page. | 10,000+ | 4.2★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| 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 |
| jQuery Manager for WordPress Manage jQuery and jQuery Migrate, activate a specific jQuery and/or jQuery Migrate version. The ultimate jQuery debugging tool for WordPress. | 7,000+ | 5.0★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| Version Control for jQuery Version Control for jQuery is one of the easiest ways to control the version of jQuery used on your website. | 6,000+ | 4.9★ | 21 months ago · quiet |
| jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images. | 4,000+ | 4.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Responsive Image Maps Makes image maps responsive by packaging the RWD Image Maps jQuery plugin for use in WordPress. | 4,000+ | 4.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Remove jQuery Migrate A very lightweight plugin that removes jQuery Migrate script from your WordPress site's front end. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP-Slimbox2 Plugin A WordPress implementation of the Slimbox2 javascript. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Cleaner Gallery A cleaner WordPress [gallery] that integrates with multiple Lightbox-type scripts. | 2,000+ | 4.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP Featherlight Disabled The most lightweight WordPress lightbox plugin...and the featherlight CSS/JS (only 7kb) is automatically disabled unless you manually enable within ea … | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 16 months ago |
| Alligator Popup Add popups to your site. Add links to pages/posts via a shortcode which will be opened in a popup browser window. | 1,000+ | 4.9★ | 14 months ago |
| Animated Typed JS Shortcode This plugin add shortcode to create an animated typing effect with Typed JS. No settings needed, just plug and play. | 1,000+ | 4.3★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| FooTable FooTable's goal is simple : to make HTML tables look awesome on all devices! | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| jQuery Lightbox Used to add the lightbox effect to images on your WordPress blog :) | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| jQuery UI Widgets Simple, flexible, and powerful way to add jQuery UI widgets to your site posts, pages, or widgets. Works right out of the box! | 1,000+ | 4.3★ | 26 days ago |
| Slideshow A shortcode for displaying a slideshow of image attachments for a post. | 1,000+ | — | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| fancyBox 3 for WordPress Seamlessly integrates the fancyBox 3 script into your WordPress installation: Upload, activate, and you're done. Additional configuration is opti … | 1,000+ | 4.9★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Test jQuery Updates Test different versions of jQuery. | 1,000+ | 4.4★ | 9 months ago |
| WP To Top This plugin will add a "back to top/ scroll to top" icon automatically to your blog. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP jQuery Plus Loads jQuery from a CDN using the exact version as your current WordPress install | 900+ | 5.0★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| jQuery Image Lazy Load WP add jquery lazy loading to images | 800+ | 3.1★ | 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 |
| WP DataTable WP DataTable provides simple possibility to include raw javascript DataTables in any blog post or page, that will add advanced interaction controls to … | 600+ | 5.0★ | 19 months ago · quiet |
| WP Flipclock Quickly and easily add a flipclock to your site’s posts and pages via a shortcode. | 600+ | 4.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Advanced Spoiler Show or hide contents(text, image etc.) with animated effects wrapped by spoiler markup tag([spoiler][/spoiler]). | 500+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Cudazi Scroll to Top Adds a smooth scroll to top feature/link in the lower-right corner of long pages. | 500+ | 4.5★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| Nav Menu Item Duplicator A simple plugin that adds a duplicate button to each items on edit menu screen. | 500+ | 3.7★ | 8 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 |
| Admin Bar Toggle Hides the admin bar on the front-end by default, and adds a toggle to activate it. | 400+ | 4.9★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Smart JavaScript Auto Loader Load JavaScript files without coding | 400+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| jQuery Vertical Scroller Use jQuery Vertical Scroller plugin to display posts as a vertical scroll in a widget, post or page. Supports multiple instances. | 400+ | 4.8★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| Post UI Tabs Create jQuery tabs inside your posts, pages or post types using simple shortcodes inside the post editor. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 13 years ago · quiet |
| WP Search Suggest Provides title suggestions while typing a search query, using the built-in jQuery suggest script. | 400+ | 4.6★ | 17 days ago |
| EWSEL Lightbox For Galleries Makes the WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images. | 300+ | 4.6★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Excerpt Tools Change the default text and description of the excerpt box, add an excerpt box to pages and show a jQuery character counter and limiter. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| imageLightbox Image Lightbox, Responsive and Touch‑friendly. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Jquery news ticker Jquery news ticker plugin brings a lightweight, flexible and easy to configure ticker plugin to site. This plugin adds scrolling horizontal tickers. | 300+ | 4.5★ | 2.5 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 |
| Snazzy Archives Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. Your archive page will never be b … | 300+ | 5.0★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Whistles Tabs, toggles, accordions, and all that jazz. Bells and whistles done right. | 300+ | 4.8★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| WP Super FAQ A lightweight FAQ/QNA plugin that includes an FAQ shortcode for your site. A simple jQuery animation is included to show/hide each question. | 300+ | 4.0★ | 14 years 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 |
| Superfish Menus Adds jQuery Superfish effects to most WordPress menus. | 200+ | 3.6★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| WP Headmaster A simple plugin for adding, enqueuing and organising common items into the Head tag without hard-coding. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Accordion Menu Accordion Menu is a simple jquery accordion menu plugin for Wordpress. | 100+ | 3.7★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Adjustly Collapse Developed internally for our Adjustly theme, this plugin allows authors to link 2 html elements together as trigger and target. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| Ad Manager Manage ads on your website trough the WP dashboard. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| AnythingSlider for WordPress Integrates Chris Coyier's popular AnythingSlider jQuery plugin with WordPress. | 100+ | 3.7★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
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