Best caption hover plugins for WordPress
The most popular caption hover plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Classic Image Hovers for Elementor leads with 20+ active installs, ahead of Kings Caption Hover (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “Caption Hover” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 caption hover plugins
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Classic Image Hovers for ElementorThe most installed caption hover plugin, with 20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
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Kings Caption Hover10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
All 2 plugins tagged “Caption Hover”
Classic Image Hovers for Elementor
#27,127by Classic Addons2 months ago
Classic Image Hovers adds stylish hover effects to your images with captions in Elementor.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kings Caption Hover
Down in the last 7 days:3,550#43,608by Saif12 years ago
This plugin will add multiple awesome hover effects for the captions of your portfolio/ gallery items in your WordPress site using shortcodes and cust …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day