Best home plugins for WordPress
The most popular home plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Easy Custom Auto Excerpt leads with 6K+ active installs, ahead of Front Page Category (5K+) and Stealth Publish (900+). All 16 plugins tagged “home” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 home plugins
- 1.
Easy Custom Auto ExcerptThe most installed home plugin, with 6K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 151 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 2.
Front Page Category5K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 26 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.0.
- 3.
Stealth Publish900+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 11 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 4.
ArtPlacer Widget100+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 6 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.
Home Page Slideshow100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 6.
Front Page Custom Post Type100+ active installs. Rated 3.4 from 5 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 7.
Redirect All 404 URLs to Home Page80+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 8.
Black Studio Homepage Builder for Genesis60+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 9.
Redirect to Home10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 10.
Show Category Posts Fade in/out10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
All 16 plugins tagged “home”
Easy Custom Auto Excerpt
Down in the last 7 days:11#2,713by todiadiyatmo2 years ago
Auto Excerpt for your posts on home, search and archive pages. Customize Read More button and thumbnail image. Easy to configure and have a lot of opt …
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.5(151)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Front Page Category
Up in the last 7 days:2#3,049by binarymoon2 years ago
A plugin that lets you select the categories that appear on the front page of your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.0(26)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Stealth Publish
Up in the last 7 days:11#7,199by Scott Reilly10 years ago
Prevent specified posts from being featured on the front page or in feeds, and from notifying external services of publication.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
ArtPlacer Widget
Down in the last 7 days:84#13,139by artplacer7 months ago
Allow your visitors visualize how artworks look on walls as soon as they land on your website!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Home Page Slideshow
Down in the last 7 days:45#13,487by jethin12 years ago
Create a simple, lightweight, responsive slideshow for your site's home page.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Front Page Custom Post Type
Up in the last 7 days:33#16,740by Nick Halsey3 months ago
If you use custom post types, you may wish to display recent posts of a custom type in place of recent posts on your front page.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Redirect All 404 URLs to Home Page
Down in the last 7 days:88#17,907by Sourabh Nagori2 months ago
A powerful yet simple solution to redirect 404 errors and manage custom redirects in WordPress.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- 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
Redirect to Home
#37,237by Benjamin Intal7 years ago
Perfect for one-page websites. 301 Redirects everything (404s, search, pages, posts, etc.) to your home / frontpage.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Show Category Posts Fade in/out
Up in the last 7 days:5,925#37,355by geegood.com16 years ago
The Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from a designated category as a "featured" post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Real Estate Listings Plugin for Professionals
#41,134by allan.casilum7 years ago
An All-in-One Real Estate Plugin Solution for Brokerages and Agents Integrated with a High Powered Real Estate CRM Solution.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.9(11)
- Downloads
- 0/day
FireStorm Professional Real Estate Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:1,650#41,789by FireStorm Plugins13 years ago
This professional real estate plugin gives you the ability to add real estate listings to your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.9(43)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Posts Only
#46,691by iNexi14 years ago
Restricts posts displayed on the home page to a specified length of time.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Skin @ Home
#47,860by joanballester14 years ago
This is a plugin that allow you to put a banner (skin, an image and a link) behind the divs in your home page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
GET Different Front Page
Down in the last 7 days:10,384#48,425by theode11 years ago
Have different primary menus for different viewers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Display Site Notification Bar
#70,353by badasswp4 months ago
Display a notice bar on your WP home page. It also allows you to customize how the notification bar looks like.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day