Best genesis plugins for WordPress
The most popular genesis plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Genesis eNews Extended leads with 40K+ active installs, ahead of Genesis Simple Hooks (20K+) and Genesis Simple Share (10K+). All 89 plugins tagged “genesis” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 genesis plugins
- 1.Genesis eNews Extended
The most installed genesis plugin, with 40K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 28 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Genesis Simple Hooks20K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 22 reviews, updated 7 months ago.
- 3.Genesis Simple Share
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 33 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 4.
Genesis Connect for WooCommerce10K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 17 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 5.
Genesis Simple Sidebars10K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 27 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 6.
Genesis Columns Advanced10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 25 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 7.
Genesis Featured Page Advanced7K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 29 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 8.Genesis Portfolio Pro
5K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.
Genesis Widget Column Classes5K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 10.
Genesis Simple Menus2K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 11 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
All 89 plugins tagged “genesis”
Genesis eNews Extended
Up in the last 7 days:1#859by Brandon Kraft2 months ago
Genesis widget to add newsletter signup forms for MailChimp, AWeber, FeedBlitz, ConvertKit, and other mailing lists.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.7(28)
- Downloads
- 137/day

Genesis Simple Hooks
#1,214by Nathan Rice7 months ago
This plugin creates a new Genesis settings page that allows you to insert code (HTML, Shortcodes, and PHP), and attach it to any of the 50+ action hoo …
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.6(22)
- Downloads
- 87/day
Genesis Simple Share
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,638by OsomPress1 month ago
Genesis Simple Share allows you to easily add beautiful share buttons to your site using a Genesis child theme
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.4(33)
- Downloads
- 64/day

Genesis Connect for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,837by Nathan Rice5 months ago
This plugin allows you to seamlessly integrate WooCommerce with the Genesis Framework and Genesis child themes.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.1(17)
- Downloads
- 52/day

Genesis Simple Sidebars
Up in the last 7 days:11#1,915by StudioPress5 months ago
This plugin allows you to create multiple, dynamic widget areas, and assign those widget areas to sidebar locations within the Genesis Framework on a …
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.4(27)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Genesis Columns Advanced
Up in the last 7 days:5#2,148by Nick Diego2 years ago
Adds shortcodes to easily create up to 42 different columned layouts.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(25)
- Downloads
- 28/day

Genesis Featured Page Advanced
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,651by Nick Diego2 years ago
An advanced version of the Genesis - Featured Page widget. Allows you to add a custom image, custom content, page excerpt, and more.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 5.0(29)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Genesis Portfolio Pro
Up in the last 7 days:6#3,017by OsomPress1 month ago
Genesis Portfolio Pro adds all you need to allow for styled portfolios for any WordPress theme.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Genesis Widget Column Classes
#3,103by Jory Hogeveen20 days ago
Adds Genesis column classes to widgets.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 20/day

Genesis Simple Menus
#4,539by StudioPress5 months ago
With Genesis, Simple Menus allows you to select a WP menu for secondary navigation on posts, pages, categories, tags or custom taxonomies.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(11)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Genesis Featured Widget Amplified
Up in the last 7 days:1#4,605by Nick the Geek9 years ago
Genesis Featured Posts with support for custom post types, taxonomies, and so much more
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(15)
- Downloads
- 13/day

SEO Data Transporter
Down in the last 7 days:31#5,058by StudioPress5 months ago
This plugin allows you to transfer your inputs SEO data from one theme/plugin to another.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.4(31)
- Downloads
- 16/day

Connector GravityForms and MailerLite
Down in the last 7 days:22#5,061by closemarketing3 years ago
This plugin connects GravityForms with MailerLite.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.1(8)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Osom Author Pro
Up in the last 7 days:3#5,332by OsomPress1 month ago
The Osom Author Pro plugin creates a library which allows you to add books to any WordPress theme.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget
Down in the last 7 days:8#5,569by Travis Smith9 years ago
Genesis Featured Content with support for custom post types, taxonomies, and so much more.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Display Featured Image for Genesis
Up in the last 7 days:9#6,016by Robin Cornett3 years ago
This plugin works within the Genesis Framework, to display featured images in beautiful and dynamic ways.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(33)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Genesis Footer Builder
Up in the last 7 days:4#6,680by Shivanand Sharma7 years ago
Genesis Footer Builder allows you to customize the site footer just as you want. This plugin exclusively works with Genesis framework.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Genesis Club Lite
Down in the last 7 days:9#7,231by Russell Jamieson9 years ago
Mobile Responsive Logos, Hamburger Menus, Animated Top Bars, FAQ Accordions, User Signatures, Google Calendars and much more for Genesis sites
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Genesis Visual Hook Guide
Up in the last 7 days:14#7,949by Christopher Cochran9 years ago
Find Genesis hooks (action and filter hooks) quick and easily by seeing their actual locations inside your theme.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.7(30)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Genesis Accessible
Down in the last 7 days:29#9,216by Gary Jones6 years ago
Genesis Accessible is a plugin for site owners who want accessibility-ready websites using the Genesis Framework, but who use child themes which don&# …
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Easy Genesis Logo Uploader
Down in the last 7 days:7#9,640by surefirewebserv12 years ago
This is a plugin that will allow you to upload your logo via the WordPress Customizer for Genesis Child Themes.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Genesis Shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:3#10,213by Travis Smith12 years ago
Packages several commonly used shortcodes for the Genesis Framework.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbPress Genesis Extend
Up in the last 7 days:4#10,300by Jared Atchison7 years ago
Provides basic compatibility with bbPress and the Genesis Framework with a few extra goodies.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Genesis Simple Breadcrumbs
Up in the last 7 days:2#10,618by Nick the Geek15 years ago
Genesis Menu options with custom menu, categories, pages, and primary/secondary nav extras.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis Simple Page Sections
Down in the last 7 days:13#10,873by Doug Yuen7 years ago
Easily make full width page sections in Genesis. Must be using the Genesis theme framework.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Easy Genesis (formerly Genesis Simple Customizations)
Down in the last 7 days:74#10,878by Doug Yuen10 years ago
Easily make many customizations and setting changes to your Genesis-powered site, without having to write custom code.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Ads for Genesis
Down in the last 7 days:30#11,316by monetizemore25 days ago
Ads for Genesis allows you to display any kind of ads without coding in your Genesis theme.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 9/day

Seriously Simple Podcasting Genesis Support
Down in the last 7 days:104#11,425by Craig Hewitt3 years ago
Adds full compatibility for the Genesis theme framework to Seriously Simple Podcasting.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis Simple Comments
Up in the last 7 days:13#11,723by Nick the Geek15 years ago
Genesis Menu options with custom menu, categories, pages, and primary/secondary nav extras.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Genesis Super Customizer
Up in the last 7 days:81#12,317by 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

Genesis Featured Video
Up in the last 7 days:2#13,101by AMP-MODE5 years ago
Replace featured images in a Genesis theme with a featured video from YouTube, Vimeo and other sources.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Genesis Featured Image Header
Up in the last 7 days:357#13,161by AMP-MODE2 years ago
Easily add a featured image to the header of every page on your site including Custom Post Type archive pages.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Genesis Featured Images
Up in the last 7 days:121#15,256by Travis Smith11 years ago
This plugin sets a default image for post thumbnails for the Genesis framework.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Genesis JS / No JS
Down in the last 7 days:6#15,420by Gary Jones9 years ago
Make front end styling easier for child themes on the Genesis Framework based on whether JavaScript is enabled or not.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Genesis Style Select
Down in the last 7 days:13#16,125by Nick the Geek15 years ago
Permits users to quickly and easily change style sheets with the Genesis framework themes
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis Post Teasers
Up in the last 7 days:24#16,262by Christopher Cochran13 years ago
GENESIS THEME FRAMEWORK REQUIRED. This plugin uses the genesis grid loop function to display posts teasers either on your Homepage, Archives, or Blog …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 1.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Sticky Back2Top Universal
#16,511by Michael Kastler7 years ago
Tested up to: 5.1.1 Adds a sticky icon to any WordPress site, gently returning users to the top. Works on all themes, but optimized for Genesis.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sticky Genesis Topbar
#16,512by Anwer Ashif3 years ago
Sticky Genesis Topbar adds an area to the top or bottom of your website and lets you customize it from the Genesis Theme Settings page.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(12)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Genesis Beta Tester
Down in the last 7 days:69#16,619by StudioPress5 months ago
This plugin lets you one-click update to the latest Genesis release, even if it's still in beta.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis Co-Authors Plus
Up in the last 7 days:43#17,160by Jean Galea12 years ago
Enables full support for the Co-Authors Plus plugin in Genesis.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Themedy Widgets
Down in the last 7 days:283#17,240by Mark Hodder7 years ago
These widgets extend the functionality of our Themedy Themes.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Genesis Shortcode Generator
Down in the last 7 days:122#17,300by BeardedGinger10 years ago
The Genesis Shortcode Generator plugin allows you to quickly add any default Genesis shortcodes, columns, and widgets to your content via an added but …
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis Subpage Sidebar
Up in the last 7 days:83#17,713by Jon Schroeder12 years ago
This plugin replaces your Genesis primary sidebar with a list of child pages (supports custom post types). Only works with Genesis child themes.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Automatic Footer Copyright for Genesis
Down in the last 7 days:105#18,359by ishan00110 years ago
Add automatic copyright information in footer of Genesis or any Genesis child theme.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
AgentPress Listings Taxonomy Reorder
Up in the last 7 days:51#18,382by unclhos12 years ago
Allows the reordering of AgentPress Listings taxonomies after creation.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis Custom Backgrounds
#18,575by Travis Smith14 years ago
This plugin provides the option to select a default custom background.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis Bootstrap Carousel
Up in the last 7 days:134#19,259by jtallant13 years ago
This plugin allows you to create a simple responsive image carousel that displays the featured image, along with the title and excerpt from each post.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Black Studio Homepage Builder for Genesis
Up in the last 7 days:34#19,674by Black Studio4 years ago
Customize the home page of Genesis framework child themes using Page Builder by SiteOrigin.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Genesis Coming Soon
Down in the last 7 days:63#20,067by Jose Manuel Sanchez9 years ago
This plugin allows you to create a Coming Soon, Under Construction or Maintenance page while taking advantage of all the Genesis Framework features.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Featured Post Exclude Category for Genesis
Up in the last 7 days:208#20,090by AMP-MODE5 years ago
A new featured posts widget for Genesis themes that allows you to exclude a category when selecting All Categories in the featured post widget.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day