Best hover plugins for WordPress
The most popular hover plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Easy Footnotes leads with 8K+ active installs, ahead of Extensions for Leaflet Map (3K+) and Secondary Product Image for WooCommerce (2K+). All 32 plugins tagged “hover” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 hover plugins
- 1.
Easy FootnotesThe most installed hover plugin, with 8K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 33 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Extensions for Leaflet Map3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 24 reviews, updated 1 day ago.
- 3.
Secondary Product Image for WooCommerce2K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 days ago.
- 4.
Simple Colorbox1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 12 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 5.Block Enhancements
800+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.JS Image Zoom by csomorelwood
100+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 5 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 7.
Blur Text100+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 8.Simple Hover Box for WP Bakery Page Builder
90+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 9.
Image Hover Effects For WooCommerce Products80+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 10.Hover Sound
30+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
All 32 plugins tagged “hover”

Easy Footnotes
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,423by Jason Yingling2 months ago
Easy Footnotes lets you quickly and easily add footnotes throughout your WordPress posts using a simple shortcode in the text editor.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.8(33)
- Downloads
- 52/day

Extensions for Leaflet Map
Down in the last 7 days:10#4,088by hupe131 day ago
Extends the WordPress Plugin Leaflet Map with Leaflet Plugins and other functions.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(24)
- Downloads
- 77/day

Secondary Product Image for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:5#4,512by WPZOOM2 days ago
Show a second product image on hover in your WooCommerce shop: fade, slide or zoom, gallery rotation, arrows and a lightbox.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 31/day

Simple Colorbox
Up in the last 7 days:4#5,387by Ryan Hellyer9 years ago
Description: Adds a very simple Colorbox to your linked images.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Block Enhancements
Up in the last 7 days:38#7,280by Phi Phan2 months ago
Add icon, responsive spacing, typography, alignment, shadow, transform, transition, color, hover style to blocks. Lightweight, fast, and clean.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
JS Image Zoom by csomorelwood
Down in the last 7 days:64#14,260by csomorelwood3 years ago
The plugin allows you to zoom on images just by adding a class for them.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Blur Text
Down in the last 7 days:103#16,524by Linnea Huxford1 year ago
Blur Text with a shortcode. Unblur with a click or hover. Specify a blur color.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Hover Box for WP Bakery Page Builder
Up in the last 7 days:109#16,848by Darko Gerguric6 years ago
This plugin requires WP Bakery Page Builder plugin to work!
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Image Hover Effects For WooCommerce Products
Down in the last 7 days:155#17,750by Labib Ahmed3 years ago
Allow user to display there woocommerce products with css3 animation effects any where they want.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hover Sound
Down in the last 7 days:308#23,352by aueda14 years ago
You can introduce the behavior of playing sound by hovering mouse pointer over an HTML element and stopping the sound by moving the mouse pointer away …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Image Magnify Glass
#24,370by GrandPlugins3 years ago
A simple plugin that add zoom on hover for Gutenberg image block.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Glossary Hover
Up in the last 7 days:32#24,738by chorton22278 years ago
When hovering over a word or phrase show the user created definition.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SS Link Hover Effect
Down in the last 7 days:5#29,342by Shiful H6 years ago
Post inside all links hover effects. There has many more controls on this.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ITG Admin Hover Menus
Up in the last 7 days:942#29,745by itgoldman5 months ago
Adds direct edit links for your latest posts, pages, and custom post types right inside the admin sidebar flyout menus.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

TeenyBar
Up in the last 7 days:1,047#31,083by Neutrope Inc.3 months ago
TeenyBar hides the front-end Admin Bar until needed, with hot zones, fixed-header support, and timing controls.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Gallery-Circle
#34,547by gabrielvperez11 years ago
Plugin to show the post of the category you choose as a gallery circles with a link to the post. As the plugin shows the post by categories will not h …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Hover Effects Bundle Visual Composer Addon
#36,945by uielements9 years ago
A Collection of 50+ Hover Effects for Images and Captions using Visual Composer
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Click to Clipboard
Up in the last 7 days:10,310#37,087by stevenkellow10 years ago
A simple plugin that allows you to copy paragraphs from your site's main content to the clipboard to use elsewhere.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPeBanOver
Down in the last 7 days:336#37,871by etruel13 years ago
Show a small banner and on mouse event (over, out, click, dblclick) show another big or 2nd banner anywhere in your template, post, page or widget.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Diablo 3 Tooltip
Down in the last 7 days:4,643#40,454by solariz14 years ago
A smart way to make use of Blizzards Diablo 3 Item Overlays. Smart JS include only when needed + Shortcodes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Image grid with hover effects
Down in the last 7 days:9,130#44,479by Webgensis7 years ago
Responsive image grid with directional hover. Link your images to both external and internal pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Brozzme Hover integration
Up in the last 7 days:1,435#44,694by Benoti9 years ago
Add css3 effect animations by Ian Lunn in your website without coding skills.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
PicTips
#45,943by 8MediaCentral13 years ago
PicTips provides a shortcode for images to be used as ToolTips. Like ToolTips but with pictures.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hoverswap
Down in the last 7 days:893#46,516by Randy Hunt14 years ago
Swaps the content of a tag with the content of its title when the user hovers over it.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
OXP Mobile First Toolkit
Down in the last 7 days:2,039#54,446by Oxypage.com27 days ago
Ten fixes and additions for the things that break on phones and that your theme or page builder does not give you a switch for.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

OGO Product Thumbnail Gallery
#60,095by Alexandr5 years ago
Displaying a gallery of product images on the category page. Hovering method or swap for mobile devices.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LC HoverPeek
Up in the last 7 days:7,292#62,321by mveous27 days ago
LC HoverPeek adds a lightweight preview popup when users hover over links. It supports internal WordPress posts and external links.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mixer Dynamic Cursor
#66,255by Mixer Digital20 days ago
Custom cursor: 24 animated styles, your own colours, blend modes, and hover actions on buttons, carousels and external links.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hover Preview
Up in the last 7 days:4,864#66,982by Oleksiy Lavrynenko1 year ago
Display a small website preview when hovering over a link. Customize your API key for PagePeeker directly in the plugin settings.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Moortak portfolio hover effect for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:14,867#70,097by moortak6 years ago
this plugin is used to add a new widget to your elementor editor to show your portfolios in an awesome style with hover effect
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Hover Effects On Image Wpbeckary(Visual Composer)
#71,293by themescup8 years ago
Advanced Wpbeckery Hover Effects is a collection of some advanced and beautiful Hover Effects that helps you to easily create magnificent interactive …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day