Best retina plugins for WordPress
The most popular retina plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Perfect Images leads with 60K+ active installs, ahead of Better image sizes (2K+) and StagTools (1K+). All 15 plugins tagged “retina” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 retina plugins
- 1.
Perfect ImagesThe most installed retina plugin, with 60K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 279 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 2.
Better image sizes2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
StagTools1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 4.
Simple WP Retina1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 5.
Retina @2x700+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 6.
HiDPI Gravatars40+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
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Picturefill.WP40+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 8.
WP Retina Image10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 9.
Picturefill fix for WooCommerce10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
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Retina for WP10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
All 15 plugins tagged “retina”
Perfect Images
Down in the last 7 days:2#663by Jordy Meow5 days ago
Optimize image sizes, regenerate thumbnails, enable retina, convert to WebP/AVIF, or use cloud optimization. An essential image toolkit.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.8(279)
- Downloads
- 784/day
Better image sizes
Up in the last 7 days:5#4,511by kubiq1 month ago
Dynamically generate only needed image sizes for only needed images, with manually selected focal point for crops
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 110/day
StagTools
Up in the last 7 days:18#5,965by Ram Ratan Maurya3 years ago
StagTools is a powerful plugin to extend functionality to your WordPress themes offering shortcodes, FontAwesome icons and useful widgets.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simple WP Retina
Up in the last 7 days:9#6,841by Jonathan Desrosiers9 years ago
Seamlessly replaces images with @2x versions on Retina and other high pixel density screens. Change is performed server side saving requests.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Retina @2x
Up in the last 7 days:7#7,799by Wouter Postma9 years ago
A plugin that looks for retina images automatically based on the @2x naming convention.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
HiDPI Gravatars
#21,789by Robert Chapin11 years ago
Enables high resolution Gravatar images on any browser that supports them.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Picturefill.WP
Up in the last 7 days:112#22,259by kylereicks12 years ago
A Wordpress plugin to use picturefill.js to load responsive/retina images, mimicking the proposed HTML5 picture spec.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Retina Image
#29,189by wadadanet9 years ago
Just by uploading foo@2x.png, resized 1x are created automatically
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Picturefill fix for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:5,644#45,566by jeremymoseley11 years ago
Adds WP Retina 2x picturefill compatibility for WooCommerce variable product images.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Retina for WP
Down in the last 7 days:1,400#45,905by knuten14 years ago
This plugin let you add a shortcode with two different image sources one too a normal sized image and one for retina.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Retina Stripper
Down in the last 7 days:4,890#46,088by David Favor10 years ago
For now only occurrences of the retina.js script are dequeue + deregister.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Reinvent Retina Images
#66,333by Reinvent WP4 days ago
Sharp retina images in one click: regenerate thumbnails, fix missing image sizes, turn off unneeded ones, make WebP/AVIF and free up space.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Media Genie
#69,120by PUJI Design2 months ago
Manage media with folders, auto-renamed uploads, custom image sizes, and Retina (2×) support.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day