Best custom plugins for WordPress
The most popular custom plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. White Label CMS leads with 200K+ active installs, ahead of Simple Custom CSS Plugin (100K+) and ACF Photo Gallery Field (60K+). All 328 plugins tagged “custom” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 custom plugins
- 1.
White Label CMSThe most installed custom plugin, with 200K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 114 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 2.
Simple Custom CSS Plugin100K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 159 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 3.
ACF Photo Gallery Field60K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 29 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.Smart Custom Fields
50K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 21 reviews, updated 3 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.
Gallery Custom Links30K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 208 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 6.Scripts n Styles
30K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 30 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 7.
Ocean Custom Sidebar20K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Custom Block Builder20K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 80 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 9.Custom Body Class
10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 21 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 10.
Meks Time Ago10K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 9 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 328 plugins tagged “custom”

White Label CMS
#233by Video User Manuals4 months ago
Customise dashboard panels and branding, hide menus plus lots more.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.7(114)
- Downloads
- 708/day

Simple Custom CSS Plugin
#359by John Regan1 year ago
Add Custom CSS to your WordPress site without any hassles.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.7(159)
- Downloads
- 304/day

ACF Photo Gallery Field
Up in the last 7 days:2#681by Navneil Naicker10 months ago
A lightweight extension of Advanced Custom Field (ACF) that adds Photo Gallery field to any post/pages on your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.0(29)
- Downloads
- 125/day
Smart Custom Fields
Up in the last 7 days:2#696by Takashi Kitajima3 months ago
Smart Custom Fields is a simple plugin for managing custom fields.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.9(21)
- Downloads
- 335/day

Gallery Custom Links
Up in the last 7 days:2#958by Jordy Meow9 days ago
Gallery Custom Links allows you to link images to a specified URL. Tested with WordPress Gallery, Gutenberg, the Meow Gallery and others.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(208)
- Downloads
- 479/day
Scripts n Styles
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,065by WraithKenny3 years ago
This plugin allows Admin users to individually add HTML, custom CSS, Classes and JavaScript directly to Post, Pages or any other custom post types.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.4(30)
- Downloads
- 50/day

Ocean Custom Sidebar
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,114by oceanwp2 months ago
Generates an unlimited number of sidebars and place them on any page you wish. Go to Theme Panel > Sidebars to create your custom sidebars.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 123/day

Custom Block Builder
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,158by nK13 days ago
Easily create custom blocks and custom meta fields for Gutenberg without hard coding.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.9(80)
- Downloads
- 449/day
Custom Body Class
Down in the last 7 days:3#1,893by Andrei Lupu1 year ago
A plain simple plugin which allows you to add a custom CSS class the HTML body tag.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(21)
- Downloads
- 45/day

Meks Time Ago
Down in the last 7 days:4#2,105by Meks11 months ago
Automatically change your post date display to "time ago" format like 1 hour ago, 3 days ago, etc...
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(9)
- Downloads
- 45/day
PixTypes
#2,269by pixelgrade2 months ago
Theme-driven post types, taxonomies & custom fields.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 2.0(2)
- Downloads
- 45/day

Advanced Custom Stock Status
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,367by Softound Solutions5 months ago
Write the custom stock status with different colors for each woocommerce product, to show in product details and listing pages.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.2(37)
- Downloads
- 41/day
Simple Membership Custom Messages
Up in the last 7 days:5#2,612by wp.insider2 months ago
Simple Membership Addon to customize various content protection messages.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Custom CSS Pro
Down in the last 7 days:7#2,658by YellowPencil2 months ago
Professional real-time CSS editor for those who want to code CSS.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 5.0(15)
- Downloads
- 32/day
Custom Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:11#3,168by marapper17 years ago
Manage custom fields using the insert shortcodes or HTML comment in text of post.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Advanced CSS Editor
Down in the last 7 days:9#3,298by Hardeep Asrani7 years ago
Advanced CSS Editor is a lightweight plugin that lets you write different CSS code for each device (desktop, tablets, and mobile phones) right from th …
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 17/day
NS Featured Posts
Down in the last 7 days:14#3,472by Nilambar Sharma2 months ago
A plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.8(29)
- Downloads
- 41/day

Visual Editor Custom Buttons
#3,626by cyberduck3 years ago
Visual Editor Custom Buttons lets you add custom buttons to the Wordpress Visual Editor.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.6(37)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Customize Admin
Up in the last 7 days:17#3,636by Johan van der Wijk1 month ago
With this plugin you can use customize the appearance of the WordPress login page, dashboard and head section tags.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 3.6(5)
- Downloads
- 34/day

Snippet Shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:3#3,652by YeKen2 months ago
Create a library of custom shortcodes and reusable content, and seamlessly insert them into your posts and pages.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.7(25)
- Downloads
- 34/day

Custom Payment Gateways for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:13#3,804by Richard Muvirimi8 months ago
Add multiple custom payment gateways to WooCommerce e-commerce plugin.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(28)
- Downloads
- 28/day

Fusion Page Builder
Up in the last 7 days:4#3,865by Agency Dominion Inc.4 days ago
Fusion. The forever free, natively powerful, beautifully flexible, and easily expandable page builder for Wordpress.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.7(14)
- Downloads
- 113/day

Customize Login Image
Down in the last 7 days:9#3,876by apasionados3 years ago
This plugin allows you to customize the image and the appearance of the WordPress Login Screen.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 16/day

Custom Archive Titles
Down in the last 7 days:14#4,482by ThemeZee5 years ago
A small and simple plugin to adjust the default texts of archive titles in WordPress
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

RSS Image Feed
Down in the last 7 days:18#4,669by tepelstreel9 years ago
The RSS Image Feed adds the first image of a post to your feeds, even in firefox and even if you only display the excerpt.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.1(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Theme Blvd Layout Builder
Up in the last 7 days:3#5,010by Jason7 years ago
When using a Theme Blvd theme, this plugin gives you slick interface to build custom layouts.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Custom 404 Error Page
Down in the last 7 days:19#5,184by WP Chill1 year ago
Use any static page as the 404 error page.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.1(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Kattene
Down in the last 7 days:21#5,503by webfood1 year ago
You can create a blog part which has multiple links to pages about a single product you want to introduce to your readers by putting a simple shortcod …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Custom Sidebars by ProteusThemes
Down in the last 7 days:7#5,520by ProteusThemes1 month ago
Allows you to create custom sidebars. Replace sidebars for specific posts and pages.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 22/day
NextGEN Custom Fields
Up in the last 7 days:20#5,746by shauno2 years ago
Creates the ability to quickly and easily add custom fields to NextGEN Galleries and Images.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Where Did You Hear About Us Checkout Field for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:2#5,970by wooassist2 years ago
Adds a custom field in the checkout page to ask your customers where they've heard about your store.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(8)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Enhanced Custom Permalinks
Up in the last 7 days:7#6,003by Tor N. Johnson1 year ago
Set custom permalinks on a per-post, per-tag or per-category basis.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.1(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day

SF Author Url Control
Down in the last 7 days:6#6,238by Grégory Viguier10 years ago
Allows administrators or capable users to change the users profile url.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Show Stock Status for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:10#6,411by brightvesseldev2 months ago
The goal of this plugin is to show the “stock quantity” under each product in the shop, category and archive pages (wherever there is a loop).
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(29)
- Downloads
- 14/day

Anything Order by Terms
#7,014by briarinc4 months ago
This plugin allows you to arrange any post types and terms with drag and drop. Save post order for each term.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:11#7,163by julienbechade9 years ago
Adds a Location field to Advanced Custom Fields. This field allows you to find addresses and coordinates of a desired location.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Custom Post Type Parents
Down in the last 7 days:6#7,199by Mickey Kay8 months ago
Set a "parent page" for custom post types that is indicated in menus, lists of pages, and the Simple Section Navigation widget.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Admin Custom Font
Down in the last 7 days:16#7,206by Darko A715 days ago
Admin Custom Font plugin allows you to replace default/factory font in WordPress Admin Dashboard with hundreds of different Google Fonts.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.5(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Scroll Styler
Up in the last 7 days:4#7,249by jablonczay2 years ago
Scroll Styler offers a solution to add custom scrollbar style on your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

MS Custom Login
Down in the last 7 days:26#7,399by Mizue Imai (Mignon Style)9 years ago
Customize login page of your WordPress with images, colors and more.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.8(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Nav Menu Manager
#7,506by Robert Noakes1 year ago
Simplifies nav menu maintenance and functionality providing more control over nav menus with less coding.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 10/day
Custom Meta
Up in the last 7 days:10#7,892by delete me please18 years ago
This plugin adds a widget that is like the default Meta widget, but customizable. (You can specify what links to show).
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Background Per Page
Up in the last 7 days:50#8,119by Andy Charrington14 years ago
Background Per Page allows you to set a custom background per page (or post) as well as set up a default background for all other pages/posts.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.3(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
PostLinks
Down in the last 7 days:59#8,209by Khanh16 years ago
(Beta) An extension of Fields, a custom field management plugin. PostLinks provides additional field types such as Series, PhotoLink and PostLink.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Fusion Page Builder
Down in the last 7 days:21#8,309by Agency Dominion Inc.1 year ago
Extend Fusion with a Gallery Element.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Flexible Content Extended for Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:20#8,383by Jameel Moses4 years ago
Extends the ACF Flexible Content Field by transforming the layout list into a modal with image previews and editing in a modal for better UX.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Custom Currency Sign
Down in the last 7 days:45#8,508by Vishwajith Rajapakse2 years ago
This plugin allows WooCommerce store owners to set a custom currency symbol. User can add any unicode text or text symbol.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 7/day
CSS
Up in the last 7 days:19#8,874by koopersmith9 years ago
A simple custom CSS plugin for themes that integrates with the new theme customizer.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Fusion Page Builder
Down in the last 7 days:19#9,190by Agency Dominion Inc.5 years ago
Extend Fusion with an Image Element.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Buckets
Down in the last 7 days:11#9,258by matthewordie9 years ago
A widgets alternative that lets you place content anywhere easily.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day