Best design plugins for WordPress
The most popular design plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Layout Grid Block leads with 200K+ active installs, ahead of Visual CSS Style Editor (30K+) and Child Theme Creator by Orbisius (10K+). All 127 plugins tagged “design” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 design plugins
- 1.
Layout Grid BlockThe most installed design plugin, with 200K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 13 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 2.
Visual CSS Style Editor30K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 90 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.Child Theme Creator by Orbisius
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 44 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 4.Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit) for WordPress
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 7 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 5.Customify
10K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 9 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
Elementor Blocks for Gutenberg9K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 17 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 7.Generate Child Theme
9K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 15 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 8.SureFeedback Client Site
5K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 39 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.
Blocks CSS4K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 25 reviews, updated 2 days ago.
- 10.
Shape Dividers Plus for Elementor2K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
All 127 plugins tagged “design”

Layout Grid Block
Down in the last 7 days:1#241by Automattic3 years ago
A Gutenberg container block to let you align items consistently across a global grid.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 133/day

Visual CSS Style Editor
Down in the last 7 days:1#939by YellowPencil2 months ago
Style your WordPress site visually. Discover the most popular front-end design plugin! Try live demo.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.1(90)
- Downloads
- 92/day
Child Theme Creator by Orbisius
Down in the last 7 days:5#1,697by Svetoslav Marinov1 year ago
Create Child Themes quickly and easily from any theme that you have currently installed on your site/blog.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.0(44)
- Downloads
- 66/day
Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit) for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,943by Tectalic2 years ago
Integrate the Adobe Fonts service into your WordPress website or blog to use a range of over 25,000 high-quality fonts.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(7)
- Downloads
- 29/day
Customify
#2,090by pixelgrade2 months ago
Customify is a theme Customizer booster to easily customize Fonts, Colors, and other options for a certain WordPress theme.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.8(9)
- Downloads
- 58/day

Elementor Blocks for Gutenberg
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,215by Elementor1 year ago
Elementor Blocks for Gutenberg, officially created by Elementor Page Builder, allows you to easily insert any Elementor template into Gutenberg.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.8(17)
- Downloads
- 27/day
Generate Child Theme
Up in the last 7 days:1#2,236by Catch Themes5 months ago
Create child themes of any WordPress themes effortlessly with Generate Child Theme.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.3(15)
- Downloads
- 53/day
SureFeedback Client Site
Up in the last 7 days:5#3,049by Brainstorm Force2 months ago
Provides a secure connection between your SureFeedback parent and client sites, syncing identities for WordPress-based commenting.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.0(39)
- Downloads
- 48/day

Blocks CSS
Down in the last 7 days:16#3,246by Hardeep Asrani2 days ago
Blocks CSS allows you add custom CSS to your Blocks straight from the Block Editor (Gutenberg).
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.9(25)
- Downloads
- 97/day

Shape Dividers Plus for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:6#4,686by mdburnette1 month ago
Add 20+ extra SVG shape dividers to Elementor sections and containers.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 34/day

BlockStrap Page Builder
Down in the last 7 days:4#4,717by Stiofan6 days ago
BlockStrap Page Builder - Bootstrap Blocks combines Bootstrap's power with the block editor's versatility.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 107/day

AinoBlocks
Down in the last 7 days:20#5,989by Ellen Bauer4 years ago
A collection of blocks for the Gutenberg block editor to build professional WordPress websites.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.9(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Pagination Styler for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:50#6,280by BeRocket15 days ago
With Pagination Styler for WooCommerce You can customize pagination as You want without code.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(16)
- Downloads
- 35/day

News PhotoCard Pro
#6,384by Rasedul Haque Rumi1 year ago
Create customizable 1080×1080 photo cards from posts with templates, Elementor widget, and shortcode support.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 22/day

CP Blocks
Down in the last 7 days:22#6,680by codepeople2 months ago
CP Blocks allows to insert complementary blocks of code, like buttons, design elements, new functionalities, etc. It supports inserting blocks into th …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Quick Child Theme Generator
Up in the last 7 days:4#7,394by Ajay Kumar3 years ago
Quick Child Theme Generator is a WordPress plugin and it is helpful for creating child themes quickly.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Clean WP Admin Menu
Down in the last 7 days:35#8,605by borantula10 years ago
You can make rarely used items in the admin menu hidden.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.9(17)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Style Manager
Up in the last 7 days:3#9,045by pixelgrade1 month ago
Generate and coordinate colors, typography, and spacing across compatible WordPress themes and blocks.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Kitstarter
Down in the last 7 days:4#9,144by Kitstarter7 months ago
Access over 800 components to build beautiful websites using the world's largest Elementor component library.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

BWD Elementor Addons
Down in the last 7 days:15#9,656by Best WP Developer2 months ago
The Addons bundle is a plugin that offers various widgets and preset designs to enhance the design capabilities of the page builder.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(25)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Tweaks for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:71#10,801by Dima Minka4 years ago
Tweaks for Elementor
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Theme Tester
Down in the last 7 days:81#11,305by Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)3 years ago
Test a theme on your blog without showing your visitors
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.8(5)
- Downloads
- 4/day

Email Customizer for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:78#12,123by Team SparkEditor1 month ago
Best WooCommerce email customizer plugin to create professional, branded email templates with intuitive drag-and-drop email editor.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.8(19)
- Downloads
- 13/day

Genesis Super Customizer
Up in the last 7 days:67#12,306by Mario Giancini7 years ago
The easiest way to customize the design of the Genesis theme, right from the WordPress Customizer.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.2(13)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Block Designer
Up in the last 7 days:10#13,903by Helmut Wandl11 months ago
Create and design custom blocks for the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor without any line of code.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day

AinoBlocks Patterns
Down in the last 7 days:147#14,525by Ellen Bauer3 years ago
AinoBlocks Patterns is a pattern library to help you build professional page layouts in the WordPress editor.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Silica
Up in the last 7 days:88#16,477by Silica Plugin8 months ago
Bring stunning Glassmorphism to your Elementor designs with Silica – a lightweight plugin designed to work seamlessly with Elementor.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day
Show Current Width
Down in the last 7 days:23#17,944by web83info9 months ago
This plugin shows a current screen width on WP adminbar.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple customize
Up in the last 7 days:17#18,616by Marius L. J.6 years ago
It's your site, now customize it!
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Designer
Down in the last 7 days:152#19,188by Shivanand Sharma1 year ago
The professional WP Designer's toolkit - SCSS compiler, theme-safe customizations, and designer-friendly tools for WordPress development.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Circle Tag Cloud
Up in the last 7 days:125#20,405by Edel Hearts / Yabe10 months ago
Displays taxonomy terms in a beautiful, highly packed circle (or rectangle) layout with customizable color palettes and motion effects.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

OxyGridLayout by OxyNinja
Down in the last 7 days:183#20,525by Radoš5 years ago
Simple grid layout for Oxygen Builder. Similar as you can find in Adobe XD/Sketch/Figma.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Automatic Page Load Progress Bar
Up in the last 7 days:127#20,629by atilbian6 years ago
Embed beautiful loading bar on your wordpress website in just a few clics.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Vev
Up in the last 7 days:20#20,799by Vev3 years ago
Use the official Vev plugin to easily integrate your page or content and break free from the same old templates.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Materializer WP
Down in the last 7 days:157#21,915by CodyReichert11 years ago
Materializer is a set of Material Design Components for WordPress. Powered by simple short-codes, Materializer includes everything you need to add Mat …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sort Admin Menus
Down in the last 7 days:38#23,739by Janis Elsts9 years ago
Sorts the items in the "Settings" and "Tools" menus in alphabetical order.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 3/day

WP Nice Loader
Down in the last 7 days:36#24,106by Alex Volkov2 years ago
WP Nice Loader allows you control over page preloader, font size, themes and more.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ACD Admin Designer
Up in the last 7 days:63#26,263by steffen34ik6 months ago
Customize the WordPress admin interface with modern color schemes, live preview, presets, import and export.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Design Experiments
#26,409by Kjell Reigstad7 years ago
A plugin for trying out design experiments in WP-Admin. Brought to you by the WordPress Design Team.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Relementify
Up in the last 7 days:362#27,010by Lana1 year ago
Choose from hundreds of predefined designs for each of your Elementor widgets.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

AppearanceTools
Down in the last 7 days:54#27,078by James Roberts3 years ago
This plugin will activate every Block Editor setting available in WordPress.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

Aticolor Palettes
Up in the last 7 days:2,744#29,399by Ático estudio6 months ago
Personal color palette library — save color groups and access them from the admin toolbar or the dedicated admin page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Smooth Snow
Up in the last 7 days:22#29,543by codextgmbh5 years ago
A no Javascript Smooth Snow Animation Plugin for Wordpress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Responsive Thickbox
Down in the last 7 days:87#29,922by bseddon9 years ago
Display content for any media type in a thickbox that dynamically sizes the media to match the browser window.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Mask
Down in the last 7 days:410#30,206by Jürgen Müller2 months ago
Boring straight lines? Add option to mask the core/group block with waves, slopes, spikes etc. A very lightweight extension for the core group block.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Responsive Page Tester
Up in the last 7 days:182#30,307by Jonathan Desrosiers10 years ago
Gives users with content creating permissions the ability to preview their site in a responsive testbed.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.6(10)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Embed Your Posts
#31,251by htmgarcia1 year ago
You can embed your WordPress posts in other websites in a similar way you embed social media. Post Embeds plugin enhance the default core post embed f …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BTB Full Width Section
#32,283by Birk Thestrup Blauner4 years ago
Full width Section block.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

FigMoove
Down in the last 7 days:1,042#32,299by cownected10 months ago
WordPress plugin to integrate Figma content into your website. Manage multiple Figma files and display content from specific layers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Kraan Badges for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:35,498#33,326by marcelkraan1 day ago
Automatically adds customizable percentage discount and "New" badges to WooCommerce products with full control over shape, color, and shadow.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day