Best feature box plugins for WordPress
The most popular feature box plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Font Awesome Box Shortcode leads with 70+ active installs, ahead of Gutenberg Blocks (10+) and Widgetized Feature Box Thesis Framework (10+). All 4 plugins tagged “feature box” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 feature box plugins
- 1.
Font Awesome Box ShortcodeThe most installed feature box plugin, with 70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 2.Gutenberg Blocks
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 3.Widgetized Feature Box Thesis Framework
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 4.
GridBox Elementor WidgetsFewer than 10 active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 3 days ago.
All 4 plugins tagged “feature box”

Font Awesome Box Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:62#18,941by Stuart Duff - a11n6 years ago
The Font Awesome box shortcode plugin adds slim information box style shortcodes to your WordPress site which support displaying any of the Font Aweso …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Gutenberg Blocks
Down in the last 7 days:382#29,123by Sumaiya Siddika5 years ago
Highlight a featured image with your key features.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Widgetized Feature Box Thesis Framework
Down in the last 7 days:7,223#46,521by Matthew Horne14 years ago
Adds a widgetized Feature Box to the Thesis Framework.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

GridBox Elementor Widgets
#67,854by Parimal Patel3 days ago
Adds custom Elementor widgets for feature boxes, post grids, and hero sliders.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 84/day