Best blog plugins for WordPress
The most popular blog plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle leads with 400K+ active installs, ahead of All In One Favicon (60K+) and Gum Addon for Elementor (50K+). All 302 plugins tagged “blog” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 blog plugins
- 1.
SiteOrigin Widgets BundleThe most installed blog plugin, with 400K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 134 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
All In One Favicon60K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 82 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 3.
Gum Addon for Elementor50K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Blog Designer Pack30K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 79 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 5.
Post Slider and Post Carousel with Post Vertical Scrolling Widget10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 31 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 6.
BlockSpare10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 34 reviews, updated 1 day ago.
- 7.
Latest Posts Block6K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 week ago.
- 8.
Simple Blog Stats4K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 38 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 9.
Classic Blog Grid3K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
WP Image Borders2K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 45 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
All 302 plugins tagged “blog”
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle
#145by Greg - SiteOrigin10 days ago
Essential elements for modern websites. Add buttons, sliders, heroes, maps, images, carousels, features, icons, more. Create dynamic pages easily.
- Installs
- 400K+
- Rating
- 4.9(134)
- Downloads
- 4K/day
All In One Favicon
Down in the last 7 days:2#664by Garrett Grimm3 years ago
Easily add a Favicon to your site and the WordPress admin pages. Complete with upload functionality. Supports all three Favicon types (ico,png,gif).
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.5(82)
- Downloads
- 66/day
Gum Addon for Elementor
#700by Atawai2 months ago
Offers inbuilt widgets for elementor that help to create design more attractive
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 215/day
Blog Designer Pack
#1,058by InfornWeb1 month ago
News & Blog plugin for post grid, post slider, post carousel, post filter, masonry, ticker & list category posts using shortcode, Elementor & Divi.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(79)
- Downloads
- 239/day
Post Slider and Post Carousel with Post Vertical Scrolling Widget
Up in the last 7 days:4#1,780by pluginandplay1 month ago
Post Slider and Post Carousel display WordPress post in slider and carousel layouts with shortcode and Latest/Recent vertical post scrolling widget.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(31)
- Downloads
- 111/day
BlockSpare
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,984by BlockSpare1 day ago
Build news, magazine, blog and business sites with 60+ Gutenberg blocks, AI tools, custom Theme Builder, 500+ patterns, and starter templates.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(34)
- Downloads
- 1K/day
Latest Posts Block
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,859by AF themes9 days ago
Dynamic Posts Grid, Posts List, Posts Tile with Stunning Layouts for WordPress Blogs & Pages
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 84/day
Simple Blog Stats
#3,525by Jeff Starr6 days ago
Displays a wealth of useful statistics about your site. Display total number of posts, pages, categories, tags, and much more.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.9(38)
- Downloads
- 57/day
Classic Blog Grid
Down in the last 7 days:17#3,661by classictemplate2 months ago
Classic Blog Grid : A plugin to display blog posts in various grid formats: list, masonry, and slider.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 46/day
WP Image Borders
Down in the last 7 days:7#4,883by Ben Sibley9 years ago
WP Image Borders makes it easy to add decorative image borders to pictures in your blog posts.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.2(45)
- Downloads
- 13/day
Blog-in-Blog
Up in the last 7 days:37#7,403by timhodson9 months ago
This plugin shows posts from a category on any page you like using shortcodes. Create multiple blogs within a blog using a category.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(16)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Gutenverse News
Down in the last 7 days:11#7,601by Jegstudio2 months ago
Build news websites, blog and magazine layouts with WordPress news blocks, post grids, post sliders, archive blocks, and a news ticker.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 18/day
Display Remote Posts Block
Down in the last 7 days:23#7,632by Olly Campion2 months ago
Block to display recent posts from a WordPress or Blogger blog.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
PWD WP Favicon
Up in the last 7 days:6#7,731by Plateforme WP Digital3 years ago
This plugin allows you to upload a custom favicon & Apple touch icon for your website and your WordPress Dashboard using API customizer.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Tilda-publishing
Down in the last 7 days:13#7,762by tildapublishing2 months ago
Export html page from Tilda.cc for import to your WordPress site into post or page.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Storefront Blog Excerpts
Up in the last 7 days:39#7,813by wooassist2 years ago
Change the post content area on your archive pages to show the excerpt instead of the full content.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Blog Time
Down in the last 7 days:31#8,536by Scott Reilly5 years ago
Display the time according to your blog via an admin toolbar widget, a sidebar widget, and/or a template tag.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 3.6(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Giga Store Advanced Sections
Up in the last 7 days:29#10,068by Themes4WP10 years ago
Add Slider, Testimonials, Banner sections to Giga Store WordPress theme.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Blogsqode
Down in the last 7 days:8#10,103by The_Krishna5 months ago
Blogsqode is an effective and user-friendly way to beautify your blog pages on your websites.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Google SEO Pressor for Rich snippets
Down in the last 7 days:50#10,252by Smackcoders Inc.,3 years ago
Enrich your WordPress website content with Google Structured Data and make it more SEO friendly.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.8(11)
- Downloads
- 6/day
WP News
Down in the last 7 days:24#10,787by HT Plugins5 months ago
WP News is a elementor 14+ addons, 6+ WordPress Default widgets For WordPress.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 2.5(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Book Review
Up in the last 7 days:23#11,036by Donna Peplinskie (a11n)8 years ago
Spend more time reading
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.9(17)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Elementor Post Grid
Up in the last 7 days:217#11,549by themeansar26 days ago
Build News, Magazine and Blog websites with Elementor. Create responsive Post Grids, Featured Posts, Sliders, Carousels, Theme Builder templates and W …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Dig Bloginfo Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:27#11,631by Arroba Digital9 years ago
Fetch the blog info data and use it through a shortcode in html or post editor.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Smart Post Lists Light
Up in the last 7 days:33#11,651by OTWthemes4 years ago
Create custom post lists based on options you choose from a form in a widget. Different types of lists, blog, portfolio, services pages. No coding.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Popularity Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:19#11,805by ILLID13 years ago
With help of this plugin you can display the most popular posts on your blog.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.3(7)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Power Code Editor
Down in the last 7 days:18#12,147by mayel2b16 years ago
Enables syntax highlighting in the integrated source code editors. Supports PHP, HTML, CSS and JS.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
AI Blog Automator
Up in the last 7 days:41#13,218by bluteem8 days ago
AI-generated SEO blog posts on a schedule you control. Pro adds Fully-Automated planning, more providers, and review-friendly publishing.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:72#13,411google-syntax-highlighter19 years ago
This plugin makes using the Google Syntax highlighter by Alex Gorbatchev to highlight code snippets within WordPress simple.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SU Blocks
Up in the last 7 days:58#14,227by Takashi Fujisaki28 days ago
A WordPress plugin that makes it easy to create blog cards. Simply enter a URL and automatically fetch metadata to display beautiful cards.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Blog Copier
Down in the last 7 days:11#14,291by Modern Tribe, Inc.12 years ago
Enables superusers to copy existing sub blogs to new sub blogs.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(14)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Blog Layout Design by Themes Awesome
Down in the last 7 days:62#14,856by themesawesome1 year ago
Create stunning blog layout without headache with Blog Layout Design.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Be Boost
Up in the last 7 days:9#15,216by Noor Alam6 months ago
You can import free shop demo by Be Boost plugin
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Snowball
Up in the last 7 days:6#15,565by thomaspark7 years ago
Snowball makes it easy for journalists and bloggers to create immersive articles using multimedia, data visualizations, and interactive widgets.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Envision Posts Design
Up in the last 7 days:1,168#15,832by Plugin Envision1 month ago
Display posts in beautiful grid layouts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Bramework
Up in the last 7 days:5#16,034by bramework6 months ago
Quickly integrate Bramework to your WordPress site and easily publish your post. Bramework's AI-powered writing assistant helps you write engagin …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simply Sociable
Down in the last 7 days:32#16,555by stephan.wozniak12 years ago
Adds social media links for Google+, Twitter, and Facebook to the bottom of each blog post.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
BlogSEO
Up in the last 7 days:12#17,106by Vincent JOSSE3 months ago
Publish AI-generated articles from BlogSEO to your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Blog Posts Order
Up in the last 7 days:3#17,254by Gagan Goraya14 years ago
This plugin lets you order the posts on the blog by manuallyl specified order.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 3.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DraftSEO.ai
Up in the last 7 days:1,105#18,597by Kliment11 days ago
Publish AI-generated blogs from DraftSEO.ai directly to WordPress with automatic image import and SEO optimization.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 23/day
Weebly Importer Lite
Down in the last 7 days:20#18,803by geca12 years ago
Imports posts from a Weebly blog to your WP site.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Site Icon Pro
#19,396by Luca Spiller10 years ago
Site Icon Pro gives you full control over the exact icons and HTML used to display the favicon and app icons on your Wordpress site!
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Switch jQuery Version
Down in the last 7 days:262#19,714by Arefly12 years ago
Change your jQuery version and the CDN of jQuery just by onclick!
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Overrank Content Publisher
Up in the last 7 days:234#21,051by overrank1 month ago
Publish your Overrank SEO articles to WordPress automatically. It pulls on a schedule, so it works behind any firewall.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BlogWings Companion
Up in the last 7 days:20#21,092by blogwings7 years ago
BlogWings Customiser plugin will add lot of features.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Volteruno
Down in the last 7 days:2,594#21,239by András Vargyas12 days ago
Turn your WordPress blog into a growth channel that keeps publishing while you focus on the business.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 17/day
AiM Blog Engine
Down in the last 7 days:457#21,480by aimautomations5 days ago
Publish blog posts created in your AiM Blog Engine account to this site as drafts you review. Works even when your site blocks inbound REST access.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 17/day
Publish Confirmation
Down in the last 7 days:320#22,081by TristanH16 years ago
When you hit the "Publish" button, a small dialog box appears asking you if you're sure you want to publish the post.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sync Content From Notion
Down in the last 7 days:3#22,254by Takshil Kunadia6 months ago
Seamlessly import and publish Notion databases and pages to WordPress with full block support.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Oswald Lite Extension
Down in the last 7 days:42#22,379by WP Daddy7 years ago
This powerful plugin lets you extend the functionality of the Oswald WordPress Theme.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day