Best initial plugins for WordPress
The most popular initial plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Leira Letter Avatar leads with 6K+ active installs, ahead of Initial Letter (100+). All 2 plugins tagged “initial” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 initial plugins
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Leira Letter AvatarThe most installed initial plugin, with 6K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 28 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
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Initial Letter100+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 12 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
All 2 plugins tagged “initial”
Leira Letter Avatar
Down in the last 7 days:8#2,737by Ariel10 months ago
Automatically generate beautiful user avatars based on their initials.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.9(28)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Initial Letter
Down in the last 7 days:138#13,238by Garrett Grimm5 years ago
Initial Letter is a plugin that adds style options so you can change the size, color, and font of the first letter of each or all post paragraphs.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.9(12)
- Downloads
- 6/day