Best orphan plugins for WordPress
The most popular orphan plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Orphans leads with 50K+ active installs, ahead of Shortcodes Finder (4K+) and Cleanup Orphan Images (100+). All 6 plugins tagged “orphan” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 6 orphan plugins
- 1.
OrphansThe most installed orphan plugin, with 50K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 164 reviews, updated 1 day ago.
- 2.
Shortcodes Finder4K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 53 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 3.
Cleanup Orphan Images100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 4.
Orphan Word50+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 5.
Text Orphans RemoverFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 6.
CrushEdge Orphaned Upload CleanerFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
All 6 plugins tagged “orphan”
Orphans
Up in the last 7 days:1#781by iworks (Marcin Pietrzak)1 day ago
Supports the grammar rule for orphan words at the end of a line.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 5.0(164)
- Downloads
- 206/day
Shortcodes Finder
Down in the last 7 days:23#3,405by Scribit4 months ago
Shortcodes Finder helps you to find, test, clean and get informations about the shortcodes in your WordPress website posts, pages and custom contents.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.9(53)
- Downloads
- 47/day
Cleanup Orphan Images
Up in the last 7 days:274#14,863by DimitriAus21 days ago
Orphan media files cleaner
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Orphan Word
Down in the last 7 days:179#20,846by Olar Marius8 years ago
This plugin will handle the orphan words from: post/page title, widget title, widget text and comment text.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Text Orphans Remover
Up in the last 7 days:5,522#56,016by Jesse Naylor10 months ago
Prevents typographic “orphans” by replacing the final breaking space with a non‑breaking space in common text blocks (front‑end only).
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CrushEdge Orphaned Upload Cleaner
Down in the last 7 days:23,611#73,205by SepedaTua9 days ago
Detect and permanently delete orphaned uploads (files physically present on disk without an attachment in the Media Library).
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day