Best black and white plugins for WordPress
The most popular black and white plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Black Ribbon leads with 400+ active installs, ahead of Grayscale Body (100+) and Grayscale Images (60+). All 3 plugins tagged “black and white” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 black and white plugins
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Black RibbonThe most installed black and white plugin, with 400+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
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Grayscale Body100+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
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Grayscale Images60+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 4 months ago.
All 3 plugins tagged “black and white”
Black Ribbon
Down in the last 7 days:33#9,349by jojoee6 years ago
Automatically add black ribbon into sites corner (may be used for some purpose)
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Grayscale Body
Up in the last 7 days:108#13,923by jojoee5 years ago
Automatically turn the site to grayscale (may be used for some purpose)
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Grayscale Images
Down in the last 7 days:484#19,211by Jesús Amieiro5 months ago
This plugin converts all images to grayscale and show the colored image on hover.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day