Best image upload plugins for WordPress
The most popular image upload plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Scale Large Image Threshold leads with 300+ active installs, ahead of Frontend Dashboard Extra (200+) and Auto Post After Image Upload (100+). All 27 plugins tagged “image upload” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 image upload plugins
- 1.Scale Large Image Threshold
The most installed image upload plugin, with 300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 2.
Frontend Dashboard Extra200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 3.
Auto Post After Image Upload100+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 12 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 4.
File Uploader for WooCommerce100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 3 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.Quick Product Image Upload
100+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 6.
Copypress Rest API90+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.
WP Dropzone80+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 3 months ago.
- 8.Resize Image Before Upload
70+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 4 days ago.
- 9.
Comment Image Boost50+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 4 months ago.
- 10.
JS Crop30+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
All 27 plugins tagged “image upload”
Scale Large Image Threshold
Up in the last 7 days:22#10,559by Shaharia Azam6 years ago
Control scaling of big images in Wordpress using big_image_size_threshold filter. Image will be scaled forcefully when it will reach this threshold.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Frontend Dashboard Extra
Down in the last 7 days:99#12,147by M A Vinoth Kumar2 years ago
Frontend Dashboard Extra WordPress plugin is a supportive plugin for Frontend Dashboard with supportive additional features likes extra Calendar for s …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Auto Post After Image Upload
Down in the last 7 days:20#13,483by Shaharia Azam6 years ago
Upload image and create post automatically. Saves lots of time. This plugin will provide you the facility to create post after uploading each media fr …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(12)
- Downloads
- 0/day

File Uploader for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:59#13,747by Snowray Software3 months ago
Allows to attach files from different sources to WooCommerce customer orders.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 54/day
Quick Product Image Upload
Down in the last 7 days:87#15,006by bdiskind12 years ago
Easily upload and delete product images on main product screen, without having to edit each product.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Copypress Rest API
Down in the last 7 days:68#17,405by copypressdev2 months ago
Extend the WordPress REST API with custom endpoints for managing posts, categories, tags, post types, and taxonomies.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP Dropzone
Up in the last 7 days:191#17,833by Nazmul Sabuz3 months ago
Upload files into WordPress media library from front-end with drag-and-drop functionality and customizable options.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Resize Image Before Upload
Up in the last 7 days:125#18,397by TMM Technology4 days ago
Resize large photos automatically before they reach WordPress. Reduce upload size and server processing with browser-side JPEG and PNG resizing.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Comment Image Boost
Up in the last 7 days:739#20,426by AuditySEO5 months ago
Attach images to WordPress comments with drag-and-drop, preview before posting, admin moderation, and lightbox viewer.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

JS Crop
Down in the last 7 days:490#24,655by UjW0L3 months ago
Plugin which enables user to crop image and upload it which can be access with media page,
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

NDV Product Image Upload for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:5,587#25,044by Muhammad Faizan (NowDigiVerse)12 days ago
Let WooCommerce customers upload and crop images and PDFs on product pages before adding to cart, with per-product rules and secure handling.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Comment Pub
Down in the last 7 days:40#25,448by nowmediagroup13 years ago
Create a guestbook or local avatars or unique comments. The images be will resized on upload and originals deleted.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Uploader Widget
Down in the last 7 days:90#29,402by pratyay12 years ago
This is a search results in slider view with image plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 1/day

Multimage
Up in the last 7 days:1,033#30,208by Akshat Saxena24 days ago
Add multiple image and photo uploads to WPForms Lite with instant AJAX uploads, custom limits, and email attachments. No Pro required.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Restrict Image Upload Size
Down in the last 7 days:529#30,833by Savvas1 month ago
Prevent users from uploading images smaller than specified dimensions. Set minimum width and height requirements from the Media Settings page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WDES User Upload Restriction
Up in the last 7 days:1,451#36,481by Anthony Carbon7 years ago
WDES User Upload Restriction is built to remove all the images that is not upload by the current user.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Boxer Image Upload
Up in the last 7 days:6,536#40,505by mandeep00711 years ago
This plugin could use for upload a single image to media and display on frontend by using a image upload widget.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
meta boxes
Down in the last 7 days:3,456#42,199by dhananjaysingh14 years ago
Using this plugin you can create custom post and you can add various types of metaboxes to those custom posts, posts and pages
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Auto Product After Upload Image
Down in the last 7 days:4,667#43,334by Quý Lê 911 year ago
Upload image and create product automatically. Saves lots of time. This plugin will provide you the facility to create product after uploading each me …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multiupload In Custom Taxonomy
#45,904by August Infotech6 years ago
Add multiupload custom field in custom taxonomy.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rk Image Upload
Down in the last 7 days:4,935#46,011by Raman Kumar9 years ago
This plugin could use for upload a single image to media and display on frontend by using a image upload widget.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post-a-pic
Down in the last 7 days:1,296#46,567by starnutoditopo11 years ago
Let you create single/bulk post after uploading any media from wordpress media gallery.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

record7 Gang Sheet Studio
Up in the last 7 days:7,399#55,321by 7rex3 months ago
A functional manual gang-sheet builder with JPG/PNG uploads and WooCommerce checkout.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

tomatoSHIFT Image Uploader for Figma
Down in the last 7 days:16,325#69,559by tomatoSHIFT2 months ago
Upload images from Figma to the WordPress Media Library in one click — bulk export as PNG, JPG or WebP, no manual downloading.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Gatewell
Up in the last 7 days:342#69,874by thenooch19 days ago
Make every image SEO- and AI-search-ready at upload: required alt text, descriptive filenames, and file size and format limits.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Efbtech Media Replacer
Down in the last 7 days:784#71,733by EFB Technology1 month ago
Easily replace existing images inside your WordPress Media Library by overwriting the file on your disk while keeping same filename and attachment ID.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Extension Access Manager
Down in the last 7 days:17,320#72,572by Haider Mirza1 year ago
Securely connect your Chrome extension to WordPress for uploading images and posting content via custom REST API.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day