Best featured plugins for WordPress
The most popular featured plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages leads with 30K+ active installs, ahead of Hide Featured Image (10K+) and Daddy Plus (8K+). All 106 plugins tagged “featured” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 featured plugins
- 1.
Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pagesThe most installed featured plugin, with 30K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 38 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
Hide Featured Image10K+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 81 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 3.
Daddy Plus8K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 4.
NS Featured Posts4K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 29 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
WP Hide Show Featured Image3K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 6.
Featured Galleries3K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 20 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 7.
YITH WooCommerce Featured Video3K+ active installs. Rated 2.9 from 34 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 8.
Better REST API Featured Images2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 11 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 9.
RSS Featured Image2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 23 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 10.
Featured Image Generator1K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 11 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 106 plugins tagged “featured”
Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages
Up in the last 7 days:4#1,005by cyrillbolliger6 months ago
Easily control whether the featured image appears in the single post or page view (doesn't hide it in archive/list view).
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(38)
- Downloads
- 107/day
Hide Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,560by shahpranaf8 years ago
To Hide Featured Image on single post/page.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.6(81)
- Downloads
- 26/day
Daddy Plus
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,426by Themes Daddy1 month ago
Daddy Plus is a useful plugin for WordPress theme by Themes Daddy.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 70/day
NS Featured Posts
Down in the last 7 days:3#3,469by 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
- 40/day
WP Hide Show Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:13#3,676by Galaxy Weblinks1 year ago
The plugin provides options to hide featured images from all posts and pages.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Featured Galleries
Down in the last 7 days:5#4,021by Andy Mercer8 years ago
Do you like giving posts a Featured Image? Try out a Featured Gallery. It's like a Featured Images ... except as many images as you want.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.7(20)
- Downloads
- 13/day
YITH WooCommerce Featured Video
Down in the last 7 days:3#4,169by YITHEMES12 days ago
YITH WooCommerce Featured Video allows you to place a video in the product detail page instead of the featured image.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 2.9(34)
- Downloads
- 58/day
Better REST API Featured Images
Down in the last 7 days:10#4,456by Braad10 years ago
Adds a top-level field with featured image data including available sizes and URLs to the post object returned by the REST API.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 29/day
RSS Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:19#4,617by Jordy Meow3 years ago
Add the featured image into your RSS feed (in the media:content). Works nicely with Mailchimp (|RSSITEM:IMAGE|). Light and simple, no options, no clut …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(23)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Featured Image Generator
Up in the last 7 days:8#5,415by Aum Watcharapon8 months ago
Get the best photos from free license website like Unsplash. You can customize images by inserting layers and texts.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Avantex Companion
Down in the last 7 days:41#5,857by FARAZFRANK4 days ago
Avantex Companion is a companion plugin for Avantex themes.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 28/day
Mark Posts
Down in the last 7 days:18#5,929by flymke2 months ago
Mark and highlight posts, pages and posts of custom post types within the posts overview.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(10)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Featured Products First for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:22#6,801by Prashant Baldha27 days ago
Displays your most profitable products first (top) in Product Listing and Earn more money with the Featured Product First for WooCommerce Plugin.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(18)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Post List Featured Image
Up in the last 7 days:12#7,175by Johnny10 years ago
A plugin that adds the "Featured Image" column in admin posts and pages list.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.7(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Featured Post
Up in the last 7 days:10#7,496by Sovit Tamrakar9 years ago
Featured Post Plugin for Wordpress.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.6(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Marin Companion
Down in the last 7 days:41#9,823by FARAZFRANK1 year ago
Marin Companion is a companion plugin for Marin theme.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
External URL Featured Image
Up in the last 7 days:3#10,126by jmarreros6 years ago
Use an external url image as Featured Image for your posts, pages, and other kind of post types.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.9(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Envo Companion
Up in the last 7 days:18#12,495by A WP Life1 year ago
Envo Companion is a companion plugin for Webenvo themes.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Content Randomizer
Down in the last 7 days:147#13,455by Dominykas8 years ago
This plugin allows you to add texts, images, videos and display them in a random order or slideshow.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Autoset Featured Image Plus
Down in the last 7 days:9#13,782by lucia.intelisano11 years ago
Check for an image inside text editor or use external images from anywhere as the featured image of your pages and posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Featured Images
Up in the last 7 days:92#13,850by Kostas Vrouvas7 years ago
A small plugin to add featured images in the "All Posts" page.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Posts Pro
Up in the last 7 days:27#14,824by thapa.laxman7 years ago
This plugin gives Administrator/Editor an easy option to mark posts, pages & custom posts as featured posts and provides a widget to list the rece …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Numix Post Slider
Up in the last 7 days:57#15,164by numixtech12 years ago
Numix Post Slider is a variable width images carousel plugin. Simple and lightweight, built with native WordPress functionality.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(13)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Resize Post Thumbnails
Up in the last 7 days:60#15,546by Alexandru Vornicescu9 years ago
This plugin will resize post thumbnails on the fly.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Frontier Set Featured
Up in the last 7 days:165#15,678by finnj3 years ago
Frontier Set Featured will set featured image from images in the post if no featured image is set by the user.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 4/day
WP Featured Soliloquy Sliders
Down in the last 7 days:24#15,776by Topher11 years ago
Provides a metabox on posts and pages listing existing Soliloquy Sliders.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFPP)
Down in the last 7 days:19#15,924by JonRaasch16 years ago
Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin provides an easy AJAX interface to feature posts, with thumbnails & other display options for featured posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Featured Video
Down in the last 7 days:9#16,083by LucP14 years ago
Featured video is exactly the same as a featured image. It allows you to easily link a YouTube or Vimeo video to a post.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Posts and Custom Posts
Down in the last 7 days:28#16,805by Jeremy Selph11 years ago
Allows the user to feature posts and custom posts. When a post is featured it gets the post metta _jsFeaturedPost.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Ultimate Post Slider Widget
Up in the last 7 days:61#16,983by Pieter Ferrreira8 years ago
A Post Slider Widget based on bxslider.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 3.8(17)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Recent & Featured Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:193#17,200by graysea10 years ago
Display recent posts or manually selected posts with thumbnail images. Show the excerpt directly on the page or as a dropdown.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
iSlidex
Up in the last 7 days:9#17,516by Duke14 years ago
iSlidex is a Wordpress slideshow plugin that will display images taken from posts in a specific category.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Get First Image Set As Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:113#17,648by Venugopal8 years ago
After installed this plugin automatically retrieve the first image from content and its set as featured image.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 1.9(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Item Metabox
Down in the last 7 days:199#17,952by HelgaTheViking6 years ago
Quickly add a metabox to any post type for marking a post as featured. Toggle featured status even more quickly from the posts lists/ quick edit scre …
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Select Featured Posts
Up in the last 7 days:40#18,320by mediology16 years ago
A plugin which allows you to select/unselect posts and updates the same using Ajax.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Posts Slideshow Widget
Up in the last 7 days:118#18,576by apgossips13 years ago
This plugin enables you to have a side bar widget with slider (slideshow) of featured images from posts from a selected category.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Images to Posts
Up in the last 7 days:277#18,827by A7 years ago
Bulk upload images to automatically create posts / custom posts with featured images. Updated from mezzaninegold's version
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
JSM Inherit Parent Featured Image
Up in the last 7 days:10#18,901by JS Morisset11 days ago
Inherit the featured image from the Post, Page, or Custom Post Type parent, grand-parent, great-grand-parent, etc.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Tidyhive Featured Posts
Down in the last 7 days:149#19,419by Mohit Chawla9 years ago
Set featured posts with single click, no page refresh from admin panel.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
3D Slider Slice Box
Up in the last 7 days:65#19,844by ezhil13 years ago
3D Slider Slice Box is responsive 3d slider which enables you to create 3d slider without the use of flash.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.3(11)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Featured Podcast Widget
Down in the last 7 days:77#19,931by Richard Farrar10 years ago
A widget that enables you to display your latest podcast from a category or featured podcast utilising the PowerPress plugin's default player.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Clients
Down in the last 7 days:88#20,106by Think2018 years ago
Clients provide you an easiest way to add and retrieve clients. Various UI styling to choose to display your client list is the add on you were lookin …
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Coin Slider 4 WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:24#20,366by KopiPejst16 years ago
Coin Slider 4 WP is Wordpress plugin for creating image gallery with unique transition effects of featured posts. You can choose between three types o …
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Auto Save Remote Image
Down in the last 7 days:192#20,402by prebhdevsingh14 years ago
This plugin automatically downloads the first remote image from a post and sets it as the featured image.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis Taxonomy Images
Down in the last 7 days:9#20,532by theMikeD10 months ago
Create and manage taxonomy images for themes using the Genesis framework. Based on "Genesis Taxonomy Images" plugin Copyright 2013 Ade Walke …
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Theme Blvd Featured Videos
Down in the last 7 days:69#22,082by Jason12 years ago
When using a theme with Theme Blvd framework version 2.0.5+, this plugin is will allow you to replace featured images with videos.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BNS Featured Tag
Down in the last 7 days:34#23,730by Edward Caissie10 years ago
Displays most recent posts from a specific featured tag or tags.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Epnb Featured Image Widget
Down in the last 7 days:184#23,826by epnb10 years ago
Epnb Featured Image Widget is a simple widget that allows you to display the featured image of the current post page in any widget area, such in sideb …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Check Missing Featured Images
Down in the last 7 days:111#24,194by termel6 years ago
Checks whether some posts are missing their featured images, tipically after a migration from another site.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Comment Widget
#24,657by Jenn Schiffer11 years ago
The Featured Comment Widget gives you the ability to shine a spotlight on some of your favorite comments on the site.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 3/day