Best grayscale plugins for WordPress
The most popular grayscale plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Black Ribbon leads with 400+ active installs, ahead of Mourning (200+) and Grayscale Body (100+). All 12 plugins tagged “grayscale” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 grayscale plugins
- 1.
Black RibbonThe most installed grayscale plugin, with 400+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 2.
Mourning200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 3.
Grayscale Body100+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 4.
WP Mourning100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 5.
Grayscale Images60+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 4 months ago.
- 6.
Site Grayscale Toggle60+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 7.
ImageFX40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 8.
1Click Grey Mode30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 9.
Phayoune Site Ribbon20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 10.
WP Simple Mourning10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
All 12 plugins tagged “grayscale”
Black Ribbon
Down in the last 7 days:43#9,336by jojoee6 years ago
Automatically add black ribbon into sites corner (may be used for some purpose)
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Mourning
Down in the last 7 days:169#12,033by jojoee6 years ago
Add black ribbon and grey out the website
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Grayscale Body
Down in the last 7 days:54#14,099by jojoee5 years ago
Automatically turn the site to grayscale (may be used for some purpose)
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Mourning
Down in the last 7 days:426#16,380by Chanon Srithongsook10 years ago
A simple plugin to Gray out website showing the black ribbon to show mourning for your loved one.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Grayscale Images
Down in the last 7 days:483#19,238by Jesús Amieiro4 months ago
This plugin converts all images to grayscale and show the colored image on hover.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Site Grayscale Toggle
Up in the last 7 days:2,608#19,414by natthasath1 year ago
CSP-safe plugin that applies a site-wide grayscale filter with a front-end toggle. Control intensity (0–100) and whether to show a floating toggle but …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ImageFX
Up in the last 7 days:94#21,794by Samuel Wood (Otto)14 years ago
Add filtering to your WordPress images. Black and white, sepia tones, colorization, and more. Expandable with custom filters too!
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
1Click Grey Mode
Up in the last 7 days:92#23,305by eng.hanan7 years ago
This plugin convert your website to full greyscale colors.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Phayoune Site Ribbon
Down in the last 7 days:96#27,666by phayoune10 months ago
Easily display a floating ribbon or image on your website corner. Includes Grayscale mode, specific page selection, and Media Library integration.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Simple Mourning
#29,952by montowniastron7 years ago
Simple implementation of mourning in your page. Grey out your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wp Blended photos
Down in the last 7 days:6,940#45,329by zacksac11 years ago
Blended images is a photoshop like tool to create great effect on your photos.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
JSM Decolorize Menu Icons
Up in the last 7 days:2,484#66,733by JS Morisset10 days ago
A simple plugin to decolorize the colorful admin menu icons added by some plugins.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day