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custom plugins
329 plugins in the directory carry the custom tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
329
plugins
635,360+
combined reach
22
released in 90 days
85%
quiet 18 months+
6
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 Oct 2026 | Admin Custom Font | 900+ | released after a long silence |
| 22 Oct 2026 | All custom fields & groups | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 11 Oct 2026 | Flexi Patterns | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 07 Oct 2026 | Custom Sidebars by ProteusThemes | 1,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 28 Sep 2026 | NuboCoder – Beaver Builder Carousel | 70+ | released after a long silence |
| 09 Sep 2026 | Show Stock Status for WooCommerce | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Label CMS Customise dashboard panels and branding, hide menus plus lots more. | 200,000+ | 4.7★ | 4 months ago |
| Simple Custom CSS Plugin Add Custom CSS to your WordPress site without any hassles. | 100,000+ | 4.7★ | 20 months ago · quiet |
| ACF Photo Gallery Field A lightweight extension of Advanced Custom Field (ACF) that adds Photo Gallery field to any post/pages on your WordPress website. | 60,000+ | 4.0★ | 10 months ago |
| Smart Custom Fields Smart Custom Fields is a simple plugin for managing custom fields. | 50,000+ | 4.9★ | 4 months ago |
| Gallery Custom Links Gallery Custom Links allows you to link images to a specified URL. Tested with WordPress Gallery, Gutenberg, the Meow Gallery and others. | 30,000+ | 4.7★ | 8 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 |
| Custom Block Builder – Lazy Blocks Easily create custom blocks and custom meta fields for Gutenberg without hard coding. | 20,000+ | 4.9★ | 12 days ago |
| Ocean Custom Sidebar Generates an unlimited number of sidebars and place them on any page you wish. Go to Theme Panel > Sidebars to create your custom sidebars. | 20,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Meks Time Ago Automatically change your post date display to "time ago" format like 1 hour ago, 3 days ago, etc... | 10,000+ | 4.3★ | 11 months ago |
| Custom Body Class A plain simple plugin which allows you to add a custom CSS class the HTML body tag. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 15 months ago |
| PixTypes Theme-driven post types, taxonomies & custom fields. | 9,000+ | 2.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Advanced Custom Stock Status Write the custom stock status with different colors for each woocommerce product, to show in product details and listing pages. | 8,000+ | 4.2★ | 6 months ago |
| Custom CSS Pro Professional real-time CSS editor for those who want to code CSS. | 7,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| Simple Membership Custom Messages Simple Membership Addon to customize various content protection messages. | 7,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Custom Post Type Maker Custom Post Type Maker lets you create Custom Post Types and custom Taxonomies in a user friendly way. | 6,000+ | 4.7★ | 4 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 |
| Advanced CSS Editor Advanced CSS Editor is a lightweight plugin that lets you write different CSS code for each device (desktop, tablets, and mobile phones) right from th … | 4,000+ | 4.3★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| NS Featured Posts A plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types. | 4,000+ | 4.8★ | 2 months ago |
| Customize Admin With this plugin you can use customize the appearance of the WordPress login page, dashboard and head section tags. | 3,000+ | 3.6★ | 2 months ago |
| Customize Login Image This plugin allows you to customize the image and the appearance of the WordPress Login Screen. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Fusion Page Builder Fusion. The forever free, natively powerful, beautifully flexible, and easily expandable page builder for Wordpress. | 3,000+ | 4.7★ | 15 days ago |
| Snippet Shortcodes Create a library of custom shortcodes and reusable content, and seamlessly insert them into your posts and pages. | 3,000+ | 4.7★ | 3 months ago |
| Visual Editor Custom Buttons Visual Editor Custom Buttons lets you add custom buttons to the Wordpress Visual Editor. | 3,000+ | 4.6★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Custom Payment Gateways for WooCommerce Add multiple custom payment gateways to WooCommerce e-commerce plugin. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Custom Archive Titles A small and simple plugin to adjust the default texts of archive titles in WordPress | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 5 years ago · quiet |
| RSS Image Feed The RSS Image Feed adds the first image of a post to your feeds, even in firefox and even if you only display the excerpt. | 2,000+ | 4.1★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Theme Blvd Layout Builder When using a Theme Blvd theme, this plugin gives you slick interface to build custom layouts. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| Custom 404 Error Page Use any static page as the 404 error page. | 1,000+ | 4.1★ | 13 months ago |
| Custom Sidebars by ProteusThemes Allows you to create custom sidebars. Replace sidebars for specific posts and pages. | 1,000+ | — | 1 month ago |
| Enhanced Custom Permalinks Set custom permalinks on a per-post, per-tag or per-category basis. | 1,000+ | 4.1★ | 13 months ago |
| Kattene You can create a blog part which has multiple links to pages about a single product you want to introduce to your readers by putting a simple shortcod … | 1,000+ | — | 22 months ago · quiet |
| NextGEN Custom Fields Creates the ability to quickly and easily add custom fields to NextGEN Galleries and Images. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| SF Author Url Control Allows administrators or capable users to change the users profile url. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Where Did You Hear About Us Checkout Field for WooCommerce Adds a custom field in the checkout page to ask your customers where they've heard about your store. | 1,000+ | 4.6★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Show Stock Status for WooCommerce The goal of this plugin is to show the “stock quantity” under each product in the shop, category and archive pages (wherever there is a loop). | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 2 months ago |
| Admin Custom Font Admin Custom Font plugin allows you to replace default/factory font in WordPress Admin Dashboard with hundreds of different Google Fonts. | 900+ | 4.5★ | 14 days ago |
| Advanced Custom Fields – Location Field add-on Adds a Location field to Advanced Custom Fields. This field allows you to find addresses and coordinates of a desired location. | 900+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Anything Order by Terms This plugin allows you to arrange any post types and terms with drag and drop. Save post order for each term. | 900+ | 4.3★ | 5 months ago |
| Custom Post Type Parents Set a "parent page" for custom post types that is indicated in menus, lists of pages, and the Simple Section Navigation widget. | 900+ | 4.0★ | 8 months ago |
| Scroll Styler Scroll Styler offers a solution to add custom scrollbar style on your WordPress website. | 900+ | 5.0★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| MS Custom Login Customize login page of your WordPress with images, colors and more. | 800+ | 4.8★ | 9 years ago · quiet |
| Nav Menu Manager Simplifies nav menu maintenance and functionality providing more control over nav menus with less coding. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 12 months ago |
| Custom Meta This plugin adds a widget that is like the default Meta widget, but customizable. (You can specify what links to show). | 700+ | 5.0★ | 17 years ago · quiet |
| Flexible Content Extended for Advanced Custom Fields Extends the ACF Flexible Content Field by transforming the layout list into a modal with image previews and editing in a modal for better UX. | 600+ | 5.0★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Background Per Page Background Per Page allows you to set a custom background per page (or post) as well as set up a default background for all other pages/posts. | 600+ | 4.3★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| Custom Currency Sign This plugin allows WooCommerce store owners to set a custom currency symbol. User can add any unicode text or text symbol. | 600+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Fusion Page Builder : Extension – Gallery Extend Fusion with a Gallery Element. | 600+ | 5.0★ | 14 months ago |
| PostLinks (Beta) An extension of Fields, a custom field management plugin. PostLinks provides additional field types such as Series, PhotoLink and PostLink. | 600+ | — | 16 years ago · quiet |
| CSS A simple custom CSS plugin for themes that integrates with the new theme customizer. | 500+ | 3.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Custom Profile Menu for BuddyPress Create custom BuddyPress profile menu pages, gracefully. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
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