Best description plugins for WordPress
The most popular description plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Custom Post Type Editor leads with 2K+ active installs, ahead of Shipping Method Description for WooCommerce (1K+) and Page Meta (700+). All 68 plugins tagged “description” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 description plugins
- 1.Custom Post Type Editor
The most installed description plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 14 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 2.
Shipping Method Description for WooCommerce1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 3.Page Meta
700+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 4.Simple Meta Tags
700+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 5.
TP Product Description in Loop for WooCommerce500+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
Meta Description400+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 7.
Simple SEO by falbar100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 8.HTML in Author Bio
100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 9.Move category description below products for WooCommerce
100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 10.WP Custom Category Meta
100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
All 68 plugins tagged “description”
Custom Post Type Editor
Up in the last 7 days:4#4,514by Tectalic2 years ago
Customize the text labels, menu names or description for any registered custom post type using a simple Dashboard user interface.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(14)
- Downloads
- 21/day

Shipping Method Description for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:29#5,784by thomascharbit4 years ago
Add a description to all WooCommerce shipping methods on cart and checkout pages.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Page Meta
Down in the last 7 days:13#7,762by Steve13 years ago
Adds the ability to override the page meta title and add in meta descriptions and keywords for pages.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simple Meta Tags
Up in the last 7 days:14#7,901by DaganLev5 years ago
Allows you to set global meta tags and customize on each individual page/post. Please Note: Does not support custom post types
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

TP Product Description in Loop for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:32#8,916by TPlugins2 months ago
Add product descriptions to your WooCommerce Shop, Category and Archive pages.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Meta Description
Up in the last 7 days:12#9,489by Luke Mlsna8 years ago
Adds a meta box to the edit posts/pages admin area for inputing an HTML meta description.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple SEO by falbar
Up in the last 7 days:11#13,355by Anton Kuliashou9 years ago
This plugin extends the standard SEO WordPress features.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
HTML in Author Bio
Down in the last 7 days:15#13,779by Abhik15 years ago
Enables the use of HTML formatting in Author Bio
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Move category description below products for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:91#16,144by kazinishatit4 years ago
We are trying to get our woocommerce product category descriptions to the bottom of the page so the products show first. I tried all the suggestions in this topic but none of them worked like they should. The following…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Custom Category Meta
Up in the last 7 days:43#16,535by Musilek12 years ago
Allow you to add custom meta tags and title for category.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Automated Keywords Generator
Up in the last 7 days:43#17,109by Julian Widya Perdana16 years ago
Automatically adds keywords and description meta tag on every page based on title, tags, categories, etc. Simple but powerful !
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Blog Introduction
Up in the last 7 days:31#18,216by jsruok15 years ago
Blog Introduction inserts a static intro before posts (on homepage or archive pages). Introduction content is taken from a designated page.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Biographical Info Paragraphed
Down in the last 7 days:222#19,044by Kamrul Hasan7 years ago
Biographical Info Paragraphed is a plug-in for Wordpress that allows Wordpress to add additional HTML tags like p, br, rel="author" etc.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SEO Meta Description
Up in the last 7 days:56#19,620by dejan.batanjac10 years ago
Creates meta description write panel for posts, pages and custom post types.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

FV Descriptions
Up in the last 7 days:4#20,116by FolioVision10 months ago
Simple plugin which allows you to mass edit the description fields of your choice.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple SEO Optimizer
Up in the last 7 days:145#20,983by Hamid Ezzaki1 year ago
Optimize your site's SEO by adding custom meta titles, descriptions, and keywords to posts and pages with this lightweight WordPress plugin.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Show Archive Descriptions
Up in the last 7 days:473#26,903by jp211211 years ago
Display category, tag and author descriptions on the appropriate archive pages.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

MetaTagsFromContent
Down in the last 7 days:151#27,905by hitmax19781 year ago
Generates title and description tags from post's content.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin Private Note on users
Up in the last 7 days:404#28,439by wplizer9 years ago
Easily add hidden and private notes for your users and they will never see your notes about them!
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simplicy SEO
Down in the last 7 days:131#29,013by fred9112 years ago
viewed Requires at least: 3.0 Tested up to: 3.7.0 Stable tag: 4.3 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
NW Description For Custom Post Types
Down in the last 7 days:615#29,165by nakweb3 years ago
WPコアの投稿タイプおよびカスタム投稿タイプのアーカイブページ、シングルページのメタディスクリプションを設定できます。
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

JL Image Attributes
Up in the last 7 days:694#29,830by José Luis López4 months ago
Automatically fills in the title, alt and description attributes of images when uploading.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Term description by means of block editor
Down in the last 7 days:253#30,765by chomovva5 years ago
The plugin adds the ability to create category descriptions using the block editor (Gutenberg).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Random Blog Description
Down in the last 7 days:970#31,417by D4N13L15 years ago
Replaces the Blog Description every hour, day, week or month randomly. You can define as many Blog Descriptions as you want.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
User Info Display
Up in the last 7 days:77#32,760by jmayoff15 years ago
Displays user info using a shortcode and template tags
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dirigible SEO
Down in the last 7 days:673#33,160by Dirigible Studio6 years ago
Free, fast and easy search engine optimization for web developers & SEO pros. Edit titles and meta tags quickly and easily. All killer, no filler.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

One Meta Description
Down in the last 7 days:118#33,335by Aby Rafa7 years ago
Show meta description in your homepage single post and page. (Wordpress Simple SEO - Meta Description).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Page and Post Description
#34,493by wpgear5 months ago
View Description for each Page and Post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
NextGEN TinyMce Gallery Description
Down in the last 7 days:5,023#40,830by bengo-matus12 years ago
NextGEN TinyMce Description add tinymce to nextgen gallery description.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mtags Lite
Down in the last 7 days:440#41,669by Wander Lima15 years ago
Simple plugin that put description and keywords for all pages and posts of your blog and clean unnecessary info in wp_head() for secure reasons.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PSI Meta Tags
Up in the last 7 days:3,174#42,338by Matthew Poer15 years ago
Add Meta-Tags to your site, and customize them on a post-by-post basis
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

List-Forms for Gravity
Down in the last 7 days:4,348#42,402by wpgear1 year ago
View Description for each Forms on List-Forms.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Developer Toolkit for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:7,044#44,498by Frank Corso1 year ago
A plugin for WordPress developers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
NASHR SEO
Down in the last 7 days:4,762#44,611by mnbaaco9 years ago
Simple and easy way to optimize your wordpress website for search engines and social media websites
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DL Block
Up in the last 7 days:2,476#45,580by cy8s6 years ago
Adds block for description list (or definition list) <DL> content
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Random Blog Description
#46,056by rndz15 years ago
Here is a short description of the plugin. This should be no more than 150 characters. No markup here.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SWT SEO Helper
#46,274by mukeshjakhar8889 years ago
SWT SEO Helper auto generating keywords, Adds Meta keywords and Description, facebook twitter google plus meta tags to each and every page, post, arch …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CPT Descriptions
#46,645by Evan13 years ago
This plugin adds a place to enter a description for your custom post types which you can display anywhere in your theme.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Messages
#47,863by shoshirasaka13 years ago
Randomly display one of your pre-written lines of text.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
FAQ Accordion
Down in the last 7 days:1,157#50,585by widgetic4 years ago
Answer questions proactively to improve customer conversion.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Soptis SEO
Up in the last 7 days:21,798#50,759by d4rkbl00d3 months ago
Modifies or adds metadata to pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Snippelio
#52,357by ikedajapan16 days ago
Edit WordPress meta descriptions with live checks and a search preview. 投稿・固定ページのSEO説明文を作成・保存。文字数チェックと検索結果プレビューに対応。
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Individual Item Description and Price for WP Invoices
#52,582by iflairwebtechnologies9 months ago
Add individual item descriptions and prices per invoice in WP Invoices with rich text support and PDF/email compatibility.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SwiftTools Meta CSV Manager
#53,706by swifttools1 month ago
Upload CSV file to update meta titles and meta descriptions with improved export functionality.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LH SEO Meta Tags
Up in the last 7 days:19,333#53,795by shawfactor7 years ago
Basic SEO meta tags, decisions not options
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Term Description Popup
Up in the last 7 days:7,360#56,042by meinService3 months ago
This plugin displays a keyword description in a popup whenever a term or post-tag in the text of a post or page matches that keyword or its synonyms.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

IAF HEADERTAGS
#56,528by Fotso Fonkam5 years ago
Add meta description and meta keywords to your platform
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Melonpan Block
Down in the last 7 days:378#58,522by Alvaro5 years ago
Block that displays the Site Title and Description.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Product Description on Shop & Archive Pages for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:5,828#59,242by hulkplugins5 months ago
Show product description on shop, category and other archive pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

CTA Section Custom Block
Up in the last 7 days:13,716#59,347by Yagnik Sangani2 years ago
CTA Section Custom Block.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day