Best image widget plugins for WordPress
The most popular image widget plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Simple Image Widget leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Image Widget (3K+) and HW Image Widget (1K+). All 23 plugins tagged “image widget” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 image widget plugins
- 1.
Simple Image WidgetThe most installed image widget plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 39 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.
Image Widget3K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.
HW Image Widget1K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 14 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 4.
Swifty Image Widget900+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 12 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 5.
Image Widget by Angie Makes500+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
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About Me Image Widget by Angie Makes200+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
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Several Images Slider Widget100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 8.
Call to Action Widget100+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 6 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
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Multi Image Widget100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
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WPB Image Widget100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 3 months ago.
All 23 plugins tagged “image widget”
Simple Image Widget
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,605by Cedaro1 year ago
A simple widget that makes it a breeze to add images to your sidebars.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(39)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Image Widget
#3,753by rbplugins1 year ago
Image Widget - most simple and fast way to create image widget to your sidebar
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 22/day
HW Image Widget
Up in the last 7 days:25#6,614by Håkan Wennerberg9 years ago
Image widget that will allow you to choose responsive or fixed sized behavior. Includes TinyMCE rich text editing of the text description.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.4(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Swifty Image Widget
Up in the last 7 days:32#7,126by Goran873 years ago
Super simple but powerful widget that allows adding single or multiple images to your widget positions, using native media uploader.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Image Widget by Angie Makes
Down in the last 7 days:15#8,913by Chris Baldelomar9 years ago
This plugin allows for the addition of a drag / drop image widget to the existing widgets in your Wordpress theme. Easily upload, and link images to t …
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
About Me Image Widget by Angie Makes
Down in the last 7 days:39#12,254by Chris Baldelomar9 years ago
Add "About Me" image widget, with caption and link, to any widget area.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Several Images Slider Widget
Up in the last 7 days:90#12,996by Galaxy Weblinks1 year ago
This plugin will add Several Images Slider Widget. In this Widget you can set single or multiple images slider with link to all slides.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Call to Action Widget
Up in the last 7 days:124#14,052by Charlie Strickler13 years ago
A simple text widget with Title, Image URL, A text/html area, Link Text and Link URL. This simple widget is often used for a call to action widget.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multi Image Widget
#16,755by Shankaranand Maurya11 years ago
Multi image widget is used to upload the multiple image.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPB Image Widget
Down in the last 7 days:17#16,778by WPBean3 months ago
A simple widget for showing responsive image in sidebar area. It's using WordPress's new media uploader.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Shaper Image and Text
Up in the last 7 days:62#17,082by wpshaper12 years ago
WP Shaper Image and Text is a dynamic image & text widget plugin for display sidebar or any where in your site.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Single Image Widget
Up in the last 7 days:24#17,769by Monjurul Hoque9 years ago
Single Image Widget to add any images to your sidebars.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
The Image Widget
Down in the last 7 days:24#18,127by Nik3 years ago
A simple image widget that allows you to display an image in any sidebar. The image can either link to another page or it can pop out in a lightbox.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Webdoone Simple Image Widget
Up in the last 7 days:151#19,671by webdoone10 years ago
A simpe and easy way to place an image in your any widget area.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lana Widgets
#20,518by Lana Codes2 years ago
Bootstrap framework based widgets
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Yo Gallery
Down in the last 7 days:39#20,628by yogallery8 years ago
Yo Gallery - modern, stylish, simple and very flexible wordpress gallery plugin
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Cresta Image In Widget
Up in the last 7 days:204#21,520by CrestaProject9 years ago
Simple plugin to show an image, photo or logo in a widget with text and link
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
KCPT Fading Image Widget
#27,897by Fastmover10 years ago
A simple image widget, you can set a url for the image to link to upon click. You can also specify a title, and a 2nd image which the 1st image will …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Master Widget
Up in the last 7 days:574#28,471by WebSPI9 years ago
WP Master Widget is an advanced WordPress widget that allows easy styling and organization for text, fontawesome icon, image, and more types of elemen …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Widget
Down in the last 7 days:73#33,071by coffee4dev9 years ago
A simple plugin to insert image by widget.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Haxy Image Widget
Up in the last 7 days:6,324#34,063by Rimaz Rauf11 years ago
A haxy widget that makes it a breeze to add images to your sidebars and set the image as “follow” or “nofollow”.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DeMomentSomTres Image Feed Widget
#46,070by Marc Queralt i Bassa1 year ago
A widget to display imges from RSS feeds such as twitter, flickr or youtube or instagram
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Custom Image Widget
Down in the last 7 days:19,453#74,274by Yudiz Solutions Ltd.2 years ago
Creates image widget and can customize image as per your need.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day