Best picker plugins for WordPress
The most popular picker plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. ACF YouTube Picker leads with 400+ active installs, ahead of Category Color Picker (60+) and Theme Catalog (10+). All 6 plugins tagged “picker” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 picker plugins
- 1.
ACF YouTube PickerThe most installed picker plugin, with 400+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 2.
Category Color Picker60+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.Theme Catalog
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 4.
Picker10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
All 6 plugins tagged “picker”

ACF YouTube Picker
Up in the last 7 days:4#9,698by airesvsg10 years ago
Search and select videos on YouTube without leaving the page.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Category Color Picker
Down in the last 7 days:71#19,884by sarap4221 month ago
Add a color picker to WordPress categories and reflect category colors in post listings and links. Includes per-category noindex settings.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Theme Catalog
#42,902by trex00511 years ago
Attractive front-end theme switcher/preview allowing demo of all themes, with menu and widget handling.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Picker
Down in the last 7 days:1,705#47,091by Andrea Landonio5 years ago
Picker is a simple and flexible plugin which allow users to choose a specific post inside admin widgets page and display it in their site frontend.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day