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images plugins

983 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.

983
plugins
2,243,030+
combined reach
182
released in 90 days
64%
quiet 18 months+
15
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.

DatePluginInstallsWhat happened
12 Oct 2026IntelligenceBank Assets Connector30+released after a long silence
30 Sep 2026Ms Gallery For Divi Lite50+changed hands
29 Sep 2026Bulk Images to Posts1,000+released after a long silence
26 Sep 2026SMNTCS Pinterest Save Button10+released after a long silence
23 Sep 2026Delete Unscaled Images900+changed hands
23 Sep 2026EB Openverse Block10+released after a long silence
22 Sep 2026Delete Unscaled Images900+released after a long silence
17 Sep 2026APG Google Image Sitemap Feed500+released after a long silence
13 Sep 2026Auto Upload Images20,000+released after a long silence
10 Sep 2026Disable "BIG Image" Threshold10,000+released after a long silence
09 Sep 2026jQuery Image Lazy Load WP700+released after a long silence
03 Sep 2026WoowGallery1,000+reopened
21 Aug 2026WoowGallery1,000+closed
21 Aug 2026Simple Image SEO20+released after a long silence
11 Aug 2026SEO Media Manager5,000+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.

PluginInstallsRatingLast 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★13 days ago
WebP Express
Serve autogenerated WebP images instead of jpeg/png to browsers that supports WebP.
300,000+4.4★20 days ago
Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox
A responsive image lightbox for WordPress galleries, WordPress attachments & FooGallery
100,000+3.9★26 days ago
Responsive Lightbox & Gallery
The most popular lightbox plugin and responsive gallery builder for WordPress.
100,000+4.9★18 days ago
Modern Image Formats
Converts images to more modern formats such as WebP or AVIF during upload.
100,000+3.6★2 months ago
Media Cleaner: Delete Unused Images & Clean Your Media Library
Find and delete unused images and media files, fix broken entries, with a trash to undo anything. A lighter, faster WordPress! 💕
90,000+4.6★8 days ago
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★10 days ago
Image Placeholders
Displays placeholders based on an image's dominant color while the image is loading.
60,000+3.5★2 months 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★3 months ago
Enhanced Responsive Images
Improvements for responsive images in WordPress.
50,000+—2 months 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★11 months ago
Image Watermark
Apply image or text watermarks to new uploads and existing Media Library images.
40,000+4.2★18 days 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★10 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★3 months ago
Optimus – WordPress Image Optimizer
Effective image compression and optimization during the upload process. Smart, automatic and reliable.
30,000+4.2★8 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★2 months ago
Lightbox with PhotoSwipe
Integration of PhotoSwipe (http://photoswipe.com) for WordPress.
20,000+4.9★2 months ago
No Right Click Images
Disables right click context menu on images to help deter leeches from stealing images.
20,000+4.7★3 months ago
Attachment Pages Redirect
Redirect attachment pages or return a 404 error for them based on the parent post status.
10,000+4.9★10 months ago
Bellows Accordion Menu
A flexible and robust accordion menu plugin
10,000+5.0★18 months ago
Disable "BIG Image" Threshold
Disables the "BIG image" threshold introduced in WordPress 5.3.
10,000+4.2★2 months ago
Disable Media Sizes
Provides options to disable the extra images generated by WordPress.
10,000+5.0★4 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★6 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
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
Disable Lazy Load
Activate this plugin to disable the Lazy Loading feature that was added in WP v5.5.
9,000+4.5★4 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★2.5 years ago · quiet
Newpost Catch
Thumbnails in new articles setting widget.
9,000+5.0★10 days ago
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+—11 months ago
SEO Media Manager
Stop fixing media titles by hand. Format new uploads automatically, with a live preview and metadata rules you control.
5,000+4.8★1 month ago
FSM Custom Featured Image Caption
Allows adding custom captions to the featured images of the posts.
5,000+4.6★6 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
Easy Image Gallery
Easily create an image gallery on your posts, pages or any custom post type
4,000+4.6★13 days 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
AI WP Writer – SEO content generator, chatGPT, Gemini, Claude
Create high-quality SEO posts, articles, AI images, WooCommerce products. Autofill website. Rewrite and translate with AI. Gemini, chatGPT, Claude
3,000+4.9★16 days 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★14 months ago
Inline Image Upload for BBPress
Upload inline images to BBPress forum topics and replies.
3,000+4.6★12 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
WP Image Size Limit
Adds a new setting under Settings -> Media where an admin can set a maximum upload file size for image files.
3,000+4.7★8.5 years ago · quiet

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