Best shortcodes plugins for WordPress
The most popular shortcodes plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Shortcodes Ultimate leads with 400K+ active installs, ahead of Column Shortcodes (60K+) and Apollo13 Framework Extensions (20K+). All 230 plugins tagged “shortcodes” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 shortcodes plugins
- 1.
Shortcodes UltimateThe most installed shortcodes plugin, with 400K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 5,925 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 2.
Column Shortcodes60K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 134 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 3.
Apollo13 Framework Extensions20K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 4.
ND Shortcodes20K+ active installs. Rated 3.3 from 13 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 5.
Futurio Extra10K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
Meks Flexible Shortcodes10K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 10 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 7.Contact Form 7 Shortcode Enabler
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 12 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 8.
Elements For Elementor10K+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 9.WP Date and Time Shortcode
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 31 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.Shortcake (Shortcode UI)
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 24 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
All 230 plugins tagged “shortcodes”

Shortcodes Ultimate
Down in the last 7 days:1#148by Vova22 days ago
Add 50+ shortcodes with live preview for tabs, accordions, buttons, FAQs, sliders and boxes. Works in Block Editor and Classic Editor.
- Installs
- 400K+
- Rating
- 4.9(5.9K)
- Downloads
- 2.8K/day

Column Shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:1#659by Tobias Schutter4 years ago
Adds shortcodes to easily create columns in your posts or pages.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.8(134)
- Downloads
- 82/day

Apollo13 Framework Extensions
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,245by apollo13themes11 months ago
Adds custom post types, shortcodes and some features that are used in themes built on Apollo13 Framework.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 58/day

ND Shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,357by nicdark1 year ago
The plugin adds some useful components to your page builder ( Elementor or WP Bakery Page Builder ). All components are full responsive and retina rea …
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 3.3(13)
- Downloads
- 48/day

Futurio Extra
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,412by FuturioWP2 months ago
Futurio Extra add extra features to Futurio theme like widgets, WooCommerce options, Elementor widgets, one click demo import and much more.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 106/day

Meks Flexible Shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,589by Meks1 year ago
Add some cool elements to your post/page content with flexible shortcodes.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.2(10)
- Downloads
- 54/day
Contact Form 7 Shortcode Enabler
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,710by Tobias Zimpel2 years ago
This plugin enables the usage of external shortcodes inside Contact Form 7 Forms.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(12)
- Downloads
- 27/day

Elements For Elementor
#1,798by nicdark1 year ago
The plugin adds some useful elements to the Elementor Page Builder Plugin. All components are full responsive and retina ready.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 33/day
WP Date and Time Shortcode
#1,812by Denra.com2 months ago
Shortcode to show any current, past, and future date or time. Display this, previous, or next year, month, day, etc.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(31)
- Downloads
- 54/day
Shortcake (Shortcode UI)
Up in the last 7 days:4#2,023by Daniel Bachhuber7 years ago
Shortcake makes using WordPress shortcodes a piece of cake.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.1(24)
- Downloads
- 98/day

WooCommerce Colors
Up in the last 7 days:1#2,118by Claudio Sanches6 years ago
Allows you to change the buttons color and other elements of WooCommerce. Beautifully.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.2(31)
- Downloads
- 20/day

WooCommerce Shortcodes
#2,226by Claudio Sanches6 years ago
Adds a button in TinyMCE editor allowing use of WooCommerce shortcodes. Beautifully.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 21/day

Weaver Xtreme Theme Support
Up in the last 7 days:4#2,346by wpweaver15 days ago
A useful shortcode and widget collection for Weaver Xtreme
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 93/day
PixCodes
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,463by pixelgrade2 months ago
PixCodes offers a Classic Editor interface for inserting Pixelgrade shortcodes.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 34/day

Popularis Extra
Down in the last 7 days:7#2,793by Themes4WP11 months ago
Popularis Extra add extra features to Popularis theme like demo import, widgets, shortcodes or Elementor widgets.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 34/day

List Pages Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:4#3,157by Aaron Harp3 years ago
Introduces the [list-pages], [sibling-pages] and [child-pages] shortcodes for easily displaying a list of pages within a post or page.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.9(14)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Custom Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:11#3,168by marapper17 years ago
Manage custom fields using the insert shortcodes or HTML comment in text of post.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Custom Global Variables
Down in the last 7 days:12#3,171by oden77776 days ago
Easily create custom variables that can be accessed globally in Wordpress and PHP. Retrieval of information is extremely fast, with no database calls.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 111/day

Weaver Show Posts
Up in the last 7 days:4#3,219by wpweaver6 months ago
Show Posts in a Page via shortcode for any theme
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Bootstrap Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:3#3,284by sinetheta15 days ago
Wordpress plugin to add shortcodes for Twitter Bootstrap 3.3
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(23)
- Downloads
- 82/day

Shortcodes Finder
Down in the last 7 days:12#3,391by 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

Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery Page Builder
Down in the last 7 days:1#3,464by Nenad Obradovic6 days ago
Extensive addons or extensions for WPBakery page builder, which allows you to add unique, flexible and fully responsive shortcodes
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.7(14)
- Downloads
- 94/day

Arconix Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:37#3,664by tychesoftwares3 months ago
Arconix Shortcodes provides a number of useful design elements like buttons, boxes, tabs and toggles to help compliment any website.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.6(24)
- Downloads
- 35/day
Affiliate Area Shortcodes by AffiliateWP
Down in the last 7 days:10#4,691by Syed Balkhi12 days ago
Customize your affiliate dashboard with 20+ powerful shortcodes. Show earnings, stats, referrals, and graphs anywhere on your site.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.0(5)
- Downloads
- 54/day
SFN Easy FAQ Manager
Down in the last 7 days:14#4,765by curtismchale9 months ago
Uses custom post types and taxonomies to manage an FAQ section for your site.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.4(12)
- Downloads
- 28/day

Stag Custom Sidebars
Down in the last 7 days:4#4,921by Ram Ratan Maurya5 years ago
Create custom dynamic sidebars and use anywhere with shortcodes.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

oik
Down in the last 7 days:17#4,935by bobbingwide2 months ago
Over 80 advanced, powerful shortcodes, and 9 blocks for displaying the content of your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Grid Shortcodes
#5,037by WP Darko9 months ago
A responsive and easy-to-use tool for dividing your content in your posts/pages. This ultra-lightweight plugin allows you to put your content in colum …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 15/day
WebMan Amplifier
Down in the last 7 days:1#5,132by WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas8 months ago
Amplifies functionality of WP themes. Provides custom post types, shortcodes, metaboxes, icons. Theme developer's best friend!
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.9(7)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Series
Up in the last 7 days:3#5,188by Justin Tadlock8 years ago
Plugin that allows you to collect posts in a series.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Nested Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:24#5,529by Outerbridge1 month ago
A small plugin which allows you to use nest shortcodes (i.e. a shortcode within an enclosing shortcode) by implementing a simple do_shortcode filter
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(14)
- Downloads
- 24/day

StagTools
Up in the last 7 days:14#5,969by 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
Do Shortcodes for Rank Math SEO
Down in the last 7 days:37#6,202by Denra.com5 days ago
Display shortcodes in the title, description, Facebook and Twitter fields, and other locations for Rank Math SEO.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Extra Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:3#6,220by webvitalii3 years ago
[extra_archives], [extra_taxonomies], [bloginfo show="name"], [date format="l jS \of F Y"], [date_i18n], [time]
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.1(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Rescue Shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:10#6,313by Rescue Themes10 months ago
A lightweight WordPress shortcodes plugin.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 13/day

Remove Orphan Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:36#6,325by Meks2 years ago
Quickly remove unused (orphan) shortcode tags from your content.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.9(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Unyson WooComerce Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:58#6,893by flytemplates6 years ago
A simple and easy way to use WooCommerce Shortcodes in Unyson Visual Builder
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Library
Down in the last 7 days:72#6,981by Patrick Daly11 years ago
Create a library of reusable terms (strings) and display their contents anywhere on your site with a shortcode.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Wbcom Designs
Down in the last 7 days:30#8,473by wbcomdesigns4 days ago
Show the BuddyPress activity stream, members directory and groups directory on any post or page, with shortcodes or Elementor widgets.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.6(10)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Show Menu Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:57#9,004by bobmatnyc15 years ago
Provides a [show-menu] shortcode for displaying a menu within a post or page.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day
Easy Random Quotes
Up in the last 7 days:43#9,030by Kailey (trepmal)10 years ago
Insert quotes and pull them randomly into your pages and posts (via shortcodes) or your template (via template tags).
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WordPress Widgets Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:41#9,167by Brajesh Singh10 years ago
Embed any widget area/dynamic sidebar to your pages/posts using the shortcode [dynamic-sidebar id='Your Widget Area/Sidebar name']
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Matcha Extra
Up in the last 7 days:80#9,185by WPMatcha2 months ago
Used for adding extra features to WP Matcha Themes.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Shortcodes in Sidebar
Up in the last 7 days:80#9,408by Pankaj Anupam3 months ago
Runs shortcodes in the Custom HTML widget, the one sidebar widget WordPress still renders without executing them.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

sCode (Easy Shortcodes)
Down in the last 7 days:29#9,553by WPShop5 years ago
Easy way to creat and manage shortcode from Admin panel site.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Hide Broken Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:15#9,685by Scott Reilly6 months ago
Prevent broken shortcodes from appearing in posts and pages.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.5(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Ketchup Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:7#9,875by AyeCode1 year ago
A simple plugin that creates a pack of shortcodes available for use with a theme.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Uix Shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:5#10,054by UIUX Lab4 months ago
Uix Shortcodes brings an amazing set of beautiful and useful elements to your site that lets you do nifty things with very little effort.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Genesis Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:31#10,215by Travis Smith12 years ago
Packages several commonly used shortcodes for the Genesis Framework.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Posts Social Shares Count
Up in the last 7 days:30#10,477by Bishoy.A11 years ago
Plugin that gives you shortcodes and PHP functions to count posts/pages shares on 6 social networks!
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day