Best extraction plugins for WordPress
The most popular extraction plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP Image Color Palette leads with 10+ active installs, ahead of ChoiceCuts Image Juggler (10+) and Summy (10+). All 3 plugins tagged “extraction” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 extraction plugins
- 1.
WP Image Color PaletteThe most installed extraction plugin, with 10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 2.ChoiceCuts Image Juggler
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
- 3.Summy
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
All 3 plugins tagged “extraction”

WP Image Color Palette
Down in the last 7 days:1,571#33,276by mkronenfeld9 years ago
Gets your attachment's dominant colors.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ChoiceCuts Image Juggler
Down in the last 7 days:245#34,623by kestrel_id16 years ago
ChoiceCuts Image Juggler resizes images, generates thumbnails, adds lightboxes and enhances image presentation in WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Summy
Down in the last 7 days:4,682#44,456by chr1513 years ago
Summy generates excerpts for your posts by applying various algorithms for automatic summarization extraction.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day