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shortcodes plugins
224 plugins in the directory carry the shortcodes tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
224
plugins
674,900+
combined reach
32
released in 90 days
74%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Aug 2026 | Shortcodes in Sidebar | 400+ | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shortcodes Ultimate – Content Elements Add 50+ shortcodes with live preview for tabs, accordions, buttons, FAQs, sliders and boxes. Works in Block Editor and Classic Editor. | 400,000+ | 4.9★ | 1 month ago |
| Column Shortcodes Adds shortcodes to easily create columns in your posts or pages. | 60,000+ | 4.8★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Apollo13 Framework Extensions Adds custom post types, shortcodes and some features that are used in themes built on Apollo13 Framework. | 20,000+ | 5.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Futurio Extra Futurio Extra add extra features to Futurio theme like widgets, WooCommerce options, Elementor widgets, one click demo import and much more. | 20,000+ | 5.0★ | 13 days ago |
| ND Shortcodes The plugin adds some useful components to your page builder ( Elementor or WP Bakery Page Builder ). All components are full responsive and retina rea … | 20,000+ | 3.3★ | 18 months ago |
| Contact Form 7 Shortcode Enabler This plugin enables the usage of external shortcodes inside Contact Form 7 Forms. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 23 months ago · quiet |
| Meks Flexible Shortcodes Add some cool elements to your post/page content with flexible shortcodes. | 10,000+ | 4.2★ | 15 months ago |
| Elements For Elementor The plugin adds some useful elements to the Elementor Page Builder Plugin. All components are full responsive and retina ready. | 10,000+ | — | 21 months ago · quiet |
| Shortcake (Shortcode UI) Shortcake makes using WordPress shortcodes a piece of cake. | 10,000+ | 4.1★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| WooCommerce Colors Allows you to change the buttons color and other elements of WooCommerce. Beautifully. | 10,000+ | 3.2★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| WP Date and Time Shortcode Shortcode to show any current, past, and future date or time. Display this, previous, or next year, month, day, etc. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 13 days ago |
| Weaver Xtreme Theme Support A useful shortcode and widget collection for Weaver Xtreme | 9,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| WooCommerce Shortcodes Adds a button in TinyMCE editor allowing use of WooCommerce shortcodes. Beautifully. | 9,000+ | 4.3★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| PixCodes PixCodes offers a Classic Editor interface for inserting Pixelgrade shortcodes. | 8,000+ | 4.0★ | 25 days ago |
| Popularis Extra Popularis Extra add extra features to Popularis theme like demo import, widgets, shortcodes or Elementor widgets. | 6,000+ | 5.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Custom Global Variables Easily create custom variables that can be accessed globally in Wordpress and PHP. Retrieval of information is extremely fast, with no database calls. | 5,000+ | 5.0★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Custom Shortcodes Manage custom fields using the insert shortcodes or HTML comment in text of post. | 5,000+ | 5.0★ | 17 years ago · quiet |
| List Pages Shortcode Introduces the [list-pages], [sibling-pages] and [child-pages] shortcodes for easily displaying a list of pages within a post or page. | 5,000+ | 4.9★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Weaver Show Posts Show Posts in a Page via shortcode for any theme | 5,000+ | 5.0★ | 5 months ago |
| Arconix Shortcodes Arconix Shortcodes provides a number of useful design elements like buttons, boxes, tabs and toggles to help compliment any website. | 4,000+ | 4.6★ | 1 month ago |
| Bootstrap Shortcodes Wordpress plugin to add shortcodes for Twitter Bootstrap 3.3 | 4,000+ | 5.0★ | 6 months ago |
| Shortcodes Finder Shortcodes Finder helps you to find, test, clean and get informations about the shortcodes in your WordPress website posts, pages and custom contents. | 4,000+ | 4.9★ | 2 months ago |
| Affiliate Area Shortcodes by AffiliateWP Customize your affiliate dashboard with 20+ powerful shortcodes. Show earnings, stats, referrals, and graphs anywhere on your site. | 2,000+ | 4.0★ | 12 months ago |
| Grid Shortcodes A responsive and easy-to-use tool for dividing your content in your posts/pages. This ultra-lightweight plugin allows you to put your content in colum … | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 7 months ago |
| oik Over 80 advanced, powerful shortcodes, and 9 blocks for displaying the content of your WordPress website. | 2,000+ | 3.7★ | 2 days ago |
| Stag Custom Sidebars Create custom dynamic sidebars and use anywhere with shortcodes. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| SFN Easy FAQ Manager Uses custom post types and taxonomies to manage an FAQ section for your site. | 2,000+ | 4.4★ | 7 months ago |
| Do Shortcodes for Rank Math SEO Display shortcodes in the title, description, Facebook and Twitter fields, and other locations for Rank Math SEO. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 17 months ago |
| Extra Shortcodes [extra_archives], [extra_taxonomies], [bloginfo show="name"], [date format="l jS \of F Y"], [date_i18n], [time] | 1,000+ | 4.1★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Nested Shortcodes by Outerbridge A small plugin which allows you to use nest shortcodes (i.e. a shortcode within an enclosing shortcode) by implementing a simple do_shortcode filter | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Remove Orphan Shortcodes Quickly remove unused (orphan) shortcode tags from your content. | 1,000+ | 3.9★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Rescue Shortcodes A lightweight WordPress shortcodes plugin. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Series Plugin that allows you to collect posts in a series. | 1,000+ | 4.2★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| StagTools StagTools is a powerful plugin to extend functionality to your WordPress themes offering shortcodes, FontAwesome icons and useful widgets. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Unyson WooComerce Shortcodes A simple and easy way to use WooCommerce Shortcodes in Unyson Visual Builder | 1,000+ | 3.7★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| WebMan Amplifier Amplifies functionality of WP themes. Provides custom post types, shortcodes, metaboxes, icons. Theme developer's best friend! | 1,000+ | 3.9★ | 6 months ago |
| Library Create a library of reusable terms (strings) and display their contents anywhere on your site with a shortcode. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Wbcom Designs – Shortcodes & Elementor Widgets For BuddyPress This plugin generates shortcodes for Listing Activity Streams, Members, and Groups on any website post or page. | 600+ | 4.6★ | 1 month ago |
| Easy Random Quotes Insert quotes and pull them randomly into your pages and posts (via shortcodes) or your template (via template tags). | 500+ | 5.0★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| WordPress Widgets Shortcode Embed any widget area/dynamic sidebar to your pages/posts using the shortcode [dynamic-sidebar id='Your Widget Area/Sidebar name'] | 500+ | 4.5★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Hide Broken Shortcodes Prevent broken shortcodes from appearing in posts and pages. | 400+ | 4.5★ | 4 months ago |
| Ketchup Shortcodes A simple plugin that creates a pack of shortcodes available for use with a theme. | 400+ | — | 20 months ago · quiet |
| sCode (Easy Shortcodes) Easy way to creat and manage shortcode from Admin panel site. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 5 years ago · quiet |
| Shortcodes in Sidebar Runs shortcodes in the Custom HTML widget, the one sidebar widget WordPress still renders without executing them. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 28 days ago |
| Show Menu Shortcode Provides a [show-menu] shortcode for displaying a menu within a post or page. | 400+ | — | 15 years ago · quiet |
| Uix Shortcodes Uix Shortcodes brings an amazing set of beautiful and useful elements to your site that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Easy Digital Downloads – Additional Shortcodes Add powerful conditional page content support to WordPress based on Easy Digital Downloads conditions. | 300+ | 4.5★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| 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 |
| Genesis Shortcodes Packages several commonly used shortcodes for the Genesis Framework. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Matcha Extra Used for adding extra features to WP Matcha Themes. | 300+ | — | 3 days ago |
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