Community plugins

These plugins are developed and supported by a community.

Classic Editor

(1,221 total ratings)

Enables the previous "classic" editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports all plugins that extend this screen.

WordPress.org 9+ million active installations Tested with 6.9.1
WordPress Importer

(313 total ratings)

Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.

WordPress.org 2+ million active installations Tested with 6.8.3
Classic Widgets

(260 total ratings)

Enables the previous "classic" widgets settings screens in Appearance – Widgets and the Customizer. Disables the block editor from managing widgets.

Tonya Mork 2+ million active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Disable Comments – Remove Comments & Stop Spam [Multi-Site Support]

(275 total ratings)

Allows administrators to globally disable comments on their site. Comments can be disabled according to post type. Multisite friendly.

WPDeveloper 1+ million active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Safe SVG

(76 total ratings)

Enable SVG uploads and sanitize them to stop XML/SVG vulnerabilities in your WordPress website.

10up 1+ million active installations Tested with 6.9.1
FluentSMTP – WP SMTP Plugin with Amazon SES, SendGrid, MailGun, Postmark, Google and Any SMTP Provider

(354 total ratings)

The Ultimate Forever Free Mail SMTP Plugin for WordPress. Connect with any SMTP, SendGrid, Mailgun, Amazon SES, Brevo, Postmark, Sparkpost, Google…

Shahjahan Jewel 500,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Health Check & Troubleshooting

(178 total ratings)

Health Check identifies common problems, and helps you troubleshoot plugin and theme conflicts.

WordPress.org 300,000+ active installations Tested with 6.6.4
Gutenberg

(3,858 total ratings)

The Gutenberg plugin adds editing, customization, and site building to WordPress. Use it to test beta features before their official release.

Matias Ventura 300,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Force Regenerate Thumbnails

(183 total ratings)

Delete and REALLY force thumbnail regeneration.

nosilver4u 200,000+ active installations Tested with 6.8.3
Imsanity

(289 total ratings)

Automatically resizes huge image uploads. Are contributors uploading huge photos? Tired of manually resizing your images? Imsanity to the rescue!

nosilver4u 200,000+ active installations Tested with 6.8.3
WP Consent API

(2 total ratings)

Simple Consent API to read and register the current consent category.

Rogier Lankhorst 200,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
User Switching

(239 total ratings)

Instant switching between user accounts in WordPress.

John Blackbourn 200,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Performance Lab

(48 total ratings)

Performance plugin from the WordPress Performance Team, which is a collection of standalone performance features.

WordPress Performance Team 200,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Simple Page Ordering

(131 total ratings)

Order your pages and other custom post types that support "page-attributes" with drag and drop right from the standard page list.

10up 100,000+ active installations Tested with 6.8.3
Simple Local Avatars

(89 total ratings)

Adds an avatar upload field to user profiles. Generates requested sizes on demand just like Gravatar!

10up 100,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Ads.txt Manager

(14 total ratings)

Create, manage, and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt from within WordPress, like any other content asset.

10up 100,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
WebSub (FKA. PubSubHubbub)

(6 total ratings)

A WebSub plugin for WordPress that enables real-time publishing and subscription capabilities.

joshfraz 100,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Modern Image Formats

(22 total ratings)

Converts images to more modern formats such as WebP or AVIF during upload.

WordPress Performance Team 100,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Simple Social Icons

(92 total ratings)

This plugin provides two ways to display social icons: a traditional widget (available on all WordPress versions) and block variations for the core So …

OsomPress 100,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
BuddyPress

(374 total ratings)

Get together safely, in your own way, in WordPress.

BuddyPress 100,000+ active installations Tested with 6.8.3

Community plugins

These plugins are developed and supported by a community.

Two-Factor

(196 total ratings)

Enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) using time-based one-time passwords (TOTP), Universal 2nd Factor (U2F), email, and backup verification codes.

WordPress.org 100,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Speculative Loading

(18 total ratings)

Enables browsers to speculatively prerender or prefetch pages to achieve near-instant loads based on user interaction.

WordPress Performance Team 70,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Image Placeholders

(2 total ratings)

Displays placeholders based on an image's dominant color while the image is loading.

WordPress Performance Team 70,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Optimization Detective

(3 total ratings)

Provides a framework for leveraging real user metrics to detect optimizations for improving page performance.

WordPress Performance Team 70,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Blogger Importer

(57 total ratings)

Imports posts, images, comments, and categories (blogger tags) from a Blogger blog then migrates authors to WordPress users.

Samuel Wood (Otto) 60,000+ active installations Tested with 6.6.4
Embed Optimizer

(2 total ratings)

Optimizes the performance of embeds through lazy-loading, preconnecting, and reserving space to reduce layout shifts.

WordPress Performance Team 60,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Secure Custom Fields

(58 total ratings)

Secure Custom Fields boosts content management with custom fields and options. It deactivates Advanced Custom Fields to prevent duplicate code errors.

WordPress.org 60,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Enhanced Responsive Images

(0 total ratings)

Improvements for responsive images in WordPress.

WordPress Performance Team 50,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Image Prioritizer

(1 total ratings)

Prioritizes the loading of images and videos based on how they appear to actual visitors: adds fetchpriority, preloads, lazy-loads, and sets sizes.

WordPress Performance Team 50,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Index WP MySQL For Speed

(96 total ratings)

Speed up your WordPress site by adding high-performance keys (database indexes) to your MariaDB / MySQL database tables.

OllieJones 50,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Performant Translations

(16 total ratings)

Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.

Pascal Birchler 40,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Block Visibility — Conditional Visibility Control for the Block Editor

(103 total ratings)

Easily show or hide any WordPress block. Schedule block visibility. Restrict blocks to specific screen sizes, user roles, post types, and more.

Nick Diego 40,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Safe Redirect Manager

(78 total ratings)

Safely manage your website's HTTP redirects.

10up 40,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
Stop Spammers Classic

(243 total ratings)

A simplified, restored, and preserved version of the original Stop Spammers plugin.

Web Guy 30,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
The Icon Block

(29 total ratings)

Easily add SVG icons and graphics to the WordPress block editor.

Nick Diego 30,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
WPGraphQL

(48 total ratings)

WPGraphQL adds a flexible and powerful GraphQL API to WordPress, enabling efficient querying and interaction with your site's data.

Jason Bahl 30,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1
RSS Importer

(10 total ratings)

Import posts from an RSS feed.

briancolinger 30,000+ active installations Tested with 6.6.4
Basic User Avatars

(41 total ratings)

Add an avatar upload field on frontend pages and Edit Profile screen so users can add a custom profile picture.

Jared Atchison 20,000+ active installations Tested with 6.7.4
Movable Type and TypePad Importer

(4 total ratings)

Import posts and comments from a Movable Type or TypePad blog.

briancolinger 20,000+ active installations Tested with 6.7.4
Stock Manager for WooCommerce

(130 total ratings)

WooCommerce stock management plugin to manage and edit product stock and their variables from a single dashboard. Stock log, import/export, filters!

storeapps 20,000+ active installations Tested with 6.9.1