Best scripts plugins for WordPress
The most popular scripts plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Header and Footer Scripts leads with 200K+ active installs, ahead of CSS & JavaScript Toolbox (10K+) and Greenshift Smart Code AI (1K+). All 47 plugins tagged “scripts” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 scripts plugins
- 1.
Header and Footer ScriptsThe most installed scripts plugin, with 200K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 58 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
CSS & JavaScript Toolbox10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 84 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Greenshift Smart Code AI1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.Cache External Scripts
800+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 25 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 5.Force jQuery in Head
100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 3 days ago.
- 6.Conditionally Load CF7
100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.
Version Assets100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 8.
WP Scripts & Styles Optimizer90+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 15 reviews, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 9.Enhanced Header / Footer Injections
70+ active installs. Rated 3.3 from 7 reviews, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 10.Simple Header and Footer
70+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 month ago.
All 47 plugins tagged “scripts”

Header and Footer Scripts
Down in the last 7 days:1#247by Anand Kumar9 months ago
Header and Footer Scripts plugin allows you to add scripts to WordPress site's and just before closing tag.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.6(58)
- Downloads
- 449/day

CSS & JavaScript Toolbox
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,134by wipeoutmedia2 months ago
Add CSS, JavaScript, PHP and HTML code snippets to your site.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(84)
- Downloads
- 69/day

Greenshift Smart Code AI
Down in the last 7 days:5#6,122by wpsoul1 year ago
Introducing Smart Code AI for WordPress - the revolutionary plugin that unleashes the power of Artificial Intelligence within the Gutenberg editor!
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Cache External Scripts
Up in the last 7 days:1#7,485by Voorsie7 years ago
Save the Google Analytics file (gtag.js / analytics.js) locally to be able to cache it for longer than 2 hours for a better PageSpeed score!
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(25)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Force jQuery in Head
Down in the last 7 days:580#13,225by Jagdish Sarma3 days ago
Load jQuery in the head, choose its source, and add custom scripts to the header, footer, specific pages or via shortcode.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Conditionally Load CF7
Up in the last 7 days:61#14,782by Chris J. Zähller1 month ago
Load Contact Form 7 & select CF7-related plugin scripts & styles only where needed.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Version Assets
Up in the last 7 days:57#15,846by Evan Mattson1 year ago
Automatically apply a content-based version on all of your assets to optimize browser caching.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Scripts & Styles Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:58#17,012by Hendrik Lersch9 years ago
Improve your site-rendering speed by customizing all of your JavaScript- and CSS-files. Deactivate, set conditions or change positioning of files
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Enhanced Header / Footer Injections
Down in the last 7 days:22#18,299by chriscarvache14 years ago
Add code to the header and footer sections of your site on a page-per-page basis.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 3.3(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Header and Footer
Up in the last 7 days:429#18,717by Alberto Reineri1 month ago
Insert code in your site's header and footer. Ideal for Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel and other tracking scripts.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Yoplanning Booking Engine
Down in the last 7 days:161#19,790by yoplanning1 year ago
FR : Ce plugin permet de charger le script d'intégration pour les modules de réservation Yoplanning.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Optimize Scripts & Styles
Down in the last 7 days:1,485#21,268by Sean Michaud6 months ago
Optimize Scripts & Styles combines scripts and styles on your site, minifies them and provides cachable versions for improved site performance.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
OPCache Scripts
Down in the last 7 days:26#21,792by nikdow10 months ago
Use this plugin to display detailed information about your server’s OPCache, including memory utilisation, and a list of all scripts cached.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Disable Styles & Scripts
#21,853by Luka Peharda12 years ago
Disable selected plugin (and/or theme) styles and scripts. Set conditions which will be evaluated.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Enqueue
Down in the last 7 days:144#22,518by Serge Boyko10 years ago
This plugin makes it dramatically easier to enqueue scripts and styles. Manage it from a separate option menu page.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP cdnjs
Up in the last 7 days:190#22,885by Mindshare Labs, Inc.6 years ago
Integrates easily CSS and JavaScript Libraries hosted by CDNjs.com. Browse, select version and sub-assets to fit your needs.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tag Scout
Up in the last 7 days:154#26,725by zemraplugins5 months ago
Find out where your tracking code is installed. Tag Scout scans your front-end HTML and shows where tracking scripts live in your WordPress install.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
WP Customizer
Up in the last 7 days:75#27,975by vicchi9 years ago
Easily load site specific functions, scripts and CSS files into your site without editing your theme's functions.php or other source files.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Encute
Up in the last 7 days:296#29,469by Mark Jaquith4 years ago
Fluent API for site owners to manipulate the scripts and styles on the frontend of their site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Remove Version Number
Down in the last 7 days:109#30,126by David Green7 years ago
A simple plugin that will remove the WordPress version number from all areas of your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Resources
Down in the last 7 days:1,051#30,687by Fineswap12 years ago
Easily load additional styles and scripts (for both front and backend pages). Works by direct inline embedding or by using URL's.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Scripts Customizer
#41,176by Han12 years ago
WP Scripts Customizer allows to enter scripts you would like output to head and footer of your WordPress theme page via WordPress Theme customizer.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Deregister Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:5,208#41,478by Ryan Hellyer13 years ago
Prevents the scripts and styling from the Contact Form 7 plugin from loading on your site. Useful for situations in which you do not require the AJAX …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
TT-Options
#44,236by thesabeltuto8 years ago
A simplified theme options where you can save styles, scripts and other codes to the database without having to edit any files on your theme.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Google Hosted AJAX Libraries
Down in the last 7 days:4,402#46,317by w3prodigy15 years ago
Change the internal WordPress scripts to use Google Hosted Scripts
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

GDPR Visitor Consent
Down in the last 7 days:9,054#47,065by noraconley4 years ago
Allow users to have control of what scripts are loaded.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
External Files
#47,087by adamh17 years ago
External files allows an author to insert the contents of an external file or url into a post, with the text automatically highlighted accordingly.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

CC-Scripts
#48,510by Clearcode8 years ago
Add custom JavaScript code to all your WordPress pages at once via the Admin panel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ScriptSpy
Up in the last 7 days:12,035#56,877by Avo Avetisyan2 months ago
Detect every third-party script loading on your site, identify owners, data collected, and export a GDPR audit report your lawyer can use.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Scripts and Styles Manager
Down in the last 7 days:364#57,349by abdelhalimkhouas1 year ago
Easily manage the scripts and styles loaded on your WordPress pages to improve performance by toggling off unnecessary assets.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Script Surgery
Up in the last 7 days:1,385#61,738by vexr5 months ago
See exactly what scripts and styles load on each page type — which plugin added them, their size, whether they block rendering — and disable them per …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MCOD Disable Enqueue JS & CSS
Up in the last 7 days:7,295#62,367by Cristian Leguizamón6 months ago
Selectively disable enqueued JS and CSS files.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WAJ Scripts
Up in the last 7 days:1,497#64,251by waughjai7 years ago
WordPress plugin for easily adding CSS stylesheets & JavaScript files.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Omnitags
Down in the last 7 days:3,779#65,523by jfrot7 years ago
Omnitags simplifies the insertion of scripts and meta data in the source code, such as SEO meta data, analytics scripts, comments and live chat servic …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LH Cookieless Domain
#65,561by shawfactor7 years ago
Filters the css and script source attribute and moves their domain to one of your choosing
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Pagelean
Up in the last 7 days:4,097#65,598by WPPoland (Mariusz Szatkowski)9 days ago
Dequeue individual scripts and styles on the pages that do not need them. Fewer requests, lighter pages, faster loads - using WordPress core.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

AssetPilot
Down in the last 7 days:13,259#65,707by Amr Abdelkarem5 months ago
Conditionally disable, defer, and preload scripts and styles — with page scans, safety checks, and Safe Mode.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

LH Dequeue Woo
#66,093by shawfactor7 years ago
Restrict the scripts and styles that woocommerce adds to your aite.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Swaysmart
Down in the last 7 days:5,302#66,175by clearsky10029 years ago
Swaysmart plugin enables you to add swaysmart scripts to WordPress header.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Asset Finder
Up in the last 7 days:1,360#67,880by Charles Jaimet8 years ago
Finds and allows late-loading and removal of the scripts and styles enqueued on your website.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Site Scripts & Speed Manager
#68,667by ThinkAboveAI7 months ago
See every JavaScript file on your WordPress site. Control how each one loads. Speed up your pages without breaking anything.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LH Dequeue Buddypress
Down in the last 7 days:9,627#69,707by shawfactor5 years ago
Dequeue the scripts and styles that buddypress adds for non logged in users.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Script Report
#70,040by sapayth7 months ago
Debug and audit JavaScript and CSS loading in WordPress. Analyze dependencies, detect issues, and improve performance on any page.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Enqueue Debug Panel
Down in the last 7 days:9,502#71,452by Webnow1 month ago
A powerful debug panel for WordPress admins to view and toggle enqueued JavaScript and CSS files. Changes apply globally to all users instantly.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LH Dequeue the Event Calendar
Down in the last 7 days:7,934#73,547by shawfactor7 years ago
Restrict the scripts and styles that the Event Calendar adds to your site.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day