Best letter plugins for WordPress
The most popular letter 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 Letter Avatars (200+) and Initial Letter (100+). All 11 plugins tagged “letter” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 9 letter plugins
- 1.
Leira Letter AvatarThe most installed letter plugin, with 6K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 28 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
Letter Avatars200+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 9 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 3.
Initial Letter100+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 12 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 4.
Type-WR20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.
Special Characters Remove20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 6.
Bukvycja20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 7.
Bronto Newsletter Signup10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 8.
Letter Template10+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 9.
Leafio Letter AvatarFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
All 11 plugins tagged “letter”
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
Letter Avatars
Down in the last 7 days:80#11,676by Sibin Grasic6 years ago
Sets custom avatars for users without gravatar. Avatars will be replaced by first letter of usename (or e-mail) on a colorful background
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 9/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
Type-WR
Up in the last 7 days:838#27,282by petrolytvyn9 months ago
A plugin that adds a simple, customizable typewriter (typing) animation effect to any HTML element on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Special Characters Remove
Down in the last 7 days:190#27,807by Sirius Pro1 year ago
Simply Remove Special Characters from WordPress attachments, slugs and permalinks.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bukvycja
Down in the last 7 days:1,253#28,966by Pavlo Degtyaryov9 years ago
The Bukvycja plugin adds drop caps to your posts, pages and comments. It comes with some cool css styling and lots of options.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bronto Newsletter Signup
Up in the last 7 days:11,593#35,453by gaza19948 years ago
Display a bronto signup form anywhere on your wordpress website with a simple shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Letter Template
Up in the last 7 days:2,613#37,582by nobug11 years ago
Allows visitors to populate business letter template providing their custom attributes via form.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Leafio Letter Avatar
#50,608by blogvii2 years ago
Create user avatars using their initial letters.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day