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theme plugins
309 plugins in the directory carry the theme 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
767,080+
combined reach
31
released in 90 days
82%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026 | API info for Plugins & Themes from WP.ORG | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Gantry 5 Framework | 7,000+ | reopened |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Gantry 5 Framework | 7,000+ | closed |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Current Theme Body Class | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Image Processing Queue | 300+ | released after a long silence |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Content Parts | 300+ | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Child Theme Configurator When using the Customizer is not enough - Create a child theme from your installed themes and customize styles, templates, functions and more. | 300,000+ | 4.7★ | 17 months ago |
| All In One Favicon Easily add a Favicon to your site and the WordPress admin pages. Complete with upload functionality. Supports all three Favicon types (ico,png,gif). | 60,000+ | 4.5★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Easy Theme and Plugin Upgrades Easily upgrade your themes and plugins using zip files without removing the theme or plugin first. | 60,000+ | 4.7★ | 4.5 years ago · quiet |
| Theme Editor Theme Editor allows you to edit theme files, create folder, upload files and remove any file and folder in themes and plugins. | 50,000+ | 4.6★ | 8 months ago |
| Cryout Serious Theme Settings This plugin is designed to inter-operate with our Mantra, Parabola, Tempera, Nirvana themes to enable their settings pages. | 40,000+ | 4.3★ | 9 months ago |
| Disable auto-update Email Notifications This plugin performs a simple task of disabling email notifications that are sent by WordPress when a plugin or theme auto-updates. | 30,000+ | 4.5★ | 22 months ago · quiet |
| Create Block Theme A WordPress plugin to create block themes. | 20,000+ | 4.8★ | 1 month ago |
| Disable All WordPress Updates Disables the theme, plugin and core update checking, the related cronjobs, plugin/theme update health checks and notification system. | 20,000+ | 4.8★ | 21 days ago |
| WP Child Theme Generator WP Child Theme Generator is an easy solution to all your WordPress child theme creating problems! | 20,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 months ago |
| Custom Post Template Provides a drop-down to select different templates for posts from the post edit screen. The templates replace single.php for the specified post. | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Flash Toolkit Flash Toolkit is a companion for Flash WordPress theme by ThemeGrill | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| HookMeUp for WooCommerce Additional content and Customization for WooCommerce Templates. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 2 months ago |
| Multiple Themes Select different Themes for one or more WordPress Pages, Posts or other non-Admin pages. Or Site Home. | 10,000+ | 4.7★ | 20 months ago · quiet |
| Multi Device Switcher Multi Device Switcher plugin allows you to set a separate theme for device (Smart Phone, Tablet PC, Mobile Phone, Game and custom). | 10,000+ | 4.3★ | 5 months ago |
| Canvas A revolutionary block-based page builder used for building layouts, an interplay of the WordPress block editor features and exceptional UI design. | 9,000+ | 4.1★ | 4 months ago |
| Generate Child Theme Create child themes of any WordPress themes effortlessly with Generate Child Theme. | 9,000+ | 4.3★ | 5 months ago |
| TJ Custom CSS Easily to add any Custom CSS code to your WordPress website. | 8,000+ | 5.0★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Gantry 5 Framework Gantry is a comprehensive set of building blocks to enable the rapid development and realization of a design into a flexible and powerful web platform | 7,000+ | 4.6★ | 19 days ago |
| Shopkeeper Extender Extends the functionality of the Shopkeeper Theme by adding theme specific features. | 7,000+ | 5.0★ | 12 days ago |
| ShowID for Post/Page/Category/Tag/Comment This plugin shows post/page/category/tag/comment/media/user IDs on admin's edit post/page/category/tag/comment/media/user pages. | 7,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Theme Switcha – Easily Switch Themes for Development and Testing Easily switch between themes for development and testing. | 7,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 months ago |
| Theme Test Drive Safely test drive any theme as an administrator, while visitors use the default one. | 7,000+ | 3.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Child Themify Create child themes with the click of a button. | 6,000+ | 4.2★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| WPS Child Theme Generator Create your child theme with options. Customize it many options. | 6,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| WP Theme Test The theme can be changed and displayed to only logged in users. | 6,000+ | 4.1★ | 4.5 years ago · quiet |
| Basic URL ShortCodes Simple shortcodes that output essential WordPress URLs inside posts, pages and widgets. | 4,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Download Theme Download any theme from your WordPress admin panel's Appearance page by just one click! | 4,000+ | 4.0★ | 18 months ago · quiet |
| Custom Category Templates Define custom templates for category views. | 3,000+ | 4.3★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Twenty Eleven Theme Extensions Easy to use customizations for the default theme Twenty Eleven--add sidebars back into your blog pages, and quickly change individual color settings. | 3,000+ | 4.7★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Force Reinstall Easily force a Plugin or Theme reinstall from WordPress.org | 2,000+ | 4.3★ | 10 months ago |
| Custom Content Width Adds a 'Custom Content Width' setting to the Settings > Media screen, to let users override their theme's content width. | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 6 months ago |
| Di Themes Demo Site Importer Di Themes Demo Site Importer plugin can be used to import the demo website developed by Di Themes. | 1,000+ | — | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Windows Compatibility Fix Fixes long filename problem on Windows systems when doing updates, such as updating from EDD based sites. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| Material Admin Theme Material blue theme for wordpress admin. Flat design, improved contrast. Have your backend look like 2015. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Suffice Toolkit Suffice Toolkit is a companion for Suffice WordPress theme by ThemeGrill | 1,000+ | — | 4 months ago |
| Quick Child Theme Generator Quick Child Theme Generator is a WordPress plugin and it is helpful for creating child themes quickly. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Widgets Control A Widget toolbox that adds visibility management and helps to control where widgets, sidebars and content are shown efficiently. | 800+ | 4.7★ | 11 months ago |
| WP Theme Changelogs Adding changelogs for themes hosted on wordpress.org by parsing their readme.txt | 800+ | 5.0★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| Child Theme Check Warns you about outdated template files in your child theme and shows a diff view of the changes between parent and child theme template. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 5 months ago |
| PWD WP Favicon This plugin allows you to upload a custom favicon & Apple touch icon for your website and your WordPress Dashboard using API customizer. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Theme Toolkit Theme toolkit is a plugin to register custom post types, widgets and shortcodes to add additional feature and functionality to any WordPress theme. | 700+ | — | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Ample Themes Demo Importer Ample Themes Demo Importer: One Click Demo Import for theme. | 600+ | — | 5 years ago · quiet |
| Spacious Toolkit Spacious Toolkit is a companion for Spacious WordPress theme by ThemeGrill | 600+ | — | 21 months 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 |
| Matcha Extra Used for adding extra features to WP Matcha Themes. | 400+ | — | 2 months ago |
| Theme Inspector A developer's inspector to illuminate the WordPress Template Hierarchy and help with building WordPress Classic themes. | 400+ | 4.7★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP Theme Optimizer Optimize your WordPress theme header by removing excess tags and scripts. Make your site faster and more secure by hiding WordPress tags. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Better File Editor Adds line numbers, syntax highlighting, code folding, and lots more to the theme and plugin editors in the admin panel. | 300+ | 4.7★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Content Parts Divide your post content into parts that you can show in different areas of your theme templates. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| Image Processing Queue On-the-fly image processing done right. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
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