Best framework plugins for WordPress
The most popular framework plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Core Framework leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Elements For Elementor (10K+) and Gantry 5 Framework (7K+). All 51 plugins tagged “framework” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 framework plugins
- 1.Core Framework
The most installed framework plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 41 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 2.
Elements For Elementor10K+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 3.
Gantry 5 Framework7K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 34 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 4.Proper Pagination
100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
- 5.WP Helper
100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 6.
Funtionalities for Alpus theme100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 7.
Basticom Framework100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 8.
LAPDI Easy Dev Framework100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 3 months ago.
- 9.
Framework Mobilede70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 10.
WP AMP Website60+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
All 51 plugins tagged “framework”
Core Framework
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,422by Core Framework5 days ago
Build and manage a portable CSS framework and design system directly inside WordPress.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(41)
- Downloads
- 113/day

Elements For Elementor
#1,798by nicdark1 year ago
The plugin adds some useful elements to the Elementor Page Builder Plugin. All components are full responsive and retina ready.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 33/day

Gantry 5 Framework
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,596by Gantry3 days ago
Gantry is a comprehensive set of building blocks to enable the rapid development and realization of a design into a flexible and powerful web platform
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.6(34)
- Downloads
- 132/day
Proper Pagination
Down in the last 7 days:324#13,966by swinton17 years ago
A flexible framework for creating semantic pagination controls for a listings page based on established usability patterns.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Helper
Down in the last 7 days:346#14,311by lucdecri13 years ago
It provides additional functions and feature that allow you to simplify the development in your plugin new posttype, new taxonomies, new pages and me …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Funtionalities for Alpus theme
Up in the last 7 days:76#14,325by Alpus Consulting LLC1 year ago
Extends the functionality of Alpus theme by adding elementor page builder elements, header builder elements, and theme options.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Basticom Framework
Up in the last 7 days:5#16,344by Basticom10 months ago
The Basticom framework plugin allows you to modify certain core functions of Wordpress as well as fine-tune some additional settings.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

LAPDI Easy Dev Framework
Down in the last 7 days:134#16,497by Let A Pro Do IT!3 months ago
Create plugins quickly using our framework.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Framework Mobilede
#18,179by domisiding3 years ago
Man kann nun, ganz einfach seinen Fahrzeugbestand von Mobile.de mit einem Framework auf seiner Webseite anzeigen lassen.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP AMP Website
Down in the last 7 days:149#20,071by WP-EXPERTS.IN4 years ago
Most popular plugin to build a light waighted wordpress AMP website.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ThemeRegion Companion
Down in the last 7 days:138#27,082by themeregion7 years ago
This plugin comes with all the core libraries of themeregion themes.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Long Toolkit
Up in the last 7 days:184#27,180by longbsvnu6 years ago
Create Admin fields, metabox, widget, taxonomy, menu meta, customizer fields quickly and friendly.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MooTools
Down in the last 7 days:35#27,443by Tribulant Software12 years ago
Safely adds the MooTools JavaScript framework to your WordPress generated pages.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
WordPressIgniter
Up in the last 7 days:220#30,292by dynamodan11 years ago
License GPLv2
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Octagon Elements for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:5,602#35,227by octagonwebstudio6 years ago
Tons of unique shortcodes elements addon for Elementor Page Builder.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SP Framework
Up in the last 7 days:5,750#39,019by Alex Kuimov6 years ago
Special Pack Framework - Feature set for fast website development
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis REST API Integration
Up in the last 7 days:798#39,097by Braad11 years ago
Adds content output from the Genesis framework hooks to the response data for posts, pages, and custom post types when using the WP REST API v2.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sunrise
Down in the last 7 days:3,677#40,150by Vova13 years ago
Plugin framework, that was designed to speed up plugin deployment and development
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Pure Web Brilliant's Social Graph Control
Up in the last 7 days:3,020#40,263by kevinjohngallagher14 years ago
Adds essential Open Graph information to your WordPress header.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

QuickStart
Down in the last 7 days:1,744#41,572by Doug Wollison2 years ago
This plugin is no longer being developed.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
JUVO Mail Editor
Up in the last 7 days:2,762#41,987by JUVOJustin1 year ago
JUVO Mail Editor helps to modify the standard WordPress Mailings and allows adding dynamic mail triggers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pure Web Brilliant's base framework
#42,192by kevinjohngallagher14 years ago
Framework required for all Pure Web Brilliant plug-ins, themes and CMS features.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
jQuery Daily Pop Up
Up in the last 7 days:2,713#43,778by zankukai14 years ago
Daily Pop Up is a fullscreen popup using only jQuery framework aims to display a page in full screen POP UP superset of the original page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
scbFramework
Down in the last 7 days:1,139#44,437by scribu13 years ago
A set of useful classes for faster plugin development.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Customizer Framework
#44,930by Philip Newcomer12 years ago
A lightweight and easy-to-use framework for the WordPress Customizer.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DX Plugin Base
#45,347by Mario Peshev11 years ago
Startup plugin code for new plugin, including the archetype of standard features, admin and core functions to be used in new plugins.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hikari Tools Framework
Down in the last 7 days:849#45,583hikari-tools16 years ago
A plugin development framework with a lot of reusable code and a nice settings page builder.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Skeletonisr
Down in the last 7 days:215#45,851by Derry Birkett14 years ago
Bootstrap your theme with the excellent Skeleton Responsive Framework from Dave Gamache
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Author
Down in the last 7 days:239#45,972by Francis Crossen13 years ago
Tina MVC is a Wordpress framework that allows you to develop plugins, shortcodes and and widgets.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Cotton Framework
Down in the last 7 days:4,394#46,353by w3prodigy16 years ago
The Cotton Framework provides a Cross-Browser Standards Compliant XHTML / CSS framework.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

RactiveJS
#46,653by FuzzGuard9 years ago
This plugin registers the RactiveJS Framework library as part of Wordpress. This means that Ractive scripts can be included in your plugins by just e …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PB Modular Pattern System
Up in the last 7 days:6,048#50,209by Pat Bloom6 years ago
MVC / BEM based elemental and modular development system based on 6 patterns
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Apaxon Core
#50,425by Apaxon2 months ago
The foundation for every Apaxon plugin: licensing, shared settings, granular permissions and site checks.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

CodexShaper Framework
Up in the last 7 days:7,960#59,205by codexshaper1 year ago
CodexShaper Framework is one-stop wordpress solution that supercharges your website design with over 90 custom widgets.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WPCasa Migration Tool
#63,837by WPSight2 months ago
This plugin migrates the data structure from old WPCasa Framework to the new WPCasa Plugin structure with listings.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ThemePlus
Down in the last 7 days:1,327#65,903by Faruk Ahmed4 months ago
A modern, React-powered WordPress theme options framework. 30 field types, white-label support, conditional logic — free forever.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MB Tech SOF
Up in the last 7 days:625#70,644by mbritt731 month ago
A modular framework that brings organizational capabilities together while keeping complexity behind the scenes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day