Best blank plugins for WordPress
The most popular blank plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Blank Slate leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Blank (800+) and Target Blank to Button Block (100+). All 5 plugins tagged “blank” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 blank plugins
- 1.
Blank SlateThe most installed blank plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 23 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Blank800+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 5 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Target Blank to Button Block100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.LDB External Links
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
- 5.
Autoblank for linkFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.0.
All 5 plugins tagged “blank”

Blank Slate
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,533by Aaron Reimann1 month ago
Provides a blank page template for use with WordPress page builders.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(23)
- Downloads
- 106/day

Blank
Down in the last 7 days:46#7,370by Web Guy5 months ago
A completely blank custom page template to build on.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Target Blank to Button Block
Down in the last 7 days:86#14,678by Jb Audras2 months ago
Add Target Blank to Gutenberg Button Block. Provisory fix to add target blank to button blocks.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
LDB External Links
#47,281by ldebrouwer16 years ago
LDB External Links turns all your links with target="_blank" into rel="external" and uses Javascript to open them in a new window …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Autoblank for link
#61,468by Artem Sannikov9 years ago
Плагин автоматически внедряет во все ссылки параметр target="_blank" в тексте статьи.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day