Best sprite plugins for WordPress
The most popular sprite plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. SVG Spritemap leads with 80+ active installs, ahead of SVG Forge Icon Manager (fewer than 10) and Nusprite (fewer than 10). All 4 plugins tagged “sprite” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 sprite plugins
- 1.SVG Spritemap
The most installed sprite plugin, with 80+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 2.
SVG Forge Icon ManagerFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.Nusprite
Fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 4.
Sprite GeneratorFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 4 plugins tagged “sprite”
SVG Spritemap
Down in the last 7 days:240#17,884by jonathantneal12 years ago
SVG Spritemap lets you add SVGs with the Media Uploader, as well as create and manage an SVG spritemap from your Media Library.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SVG Forge Icon Manager
Up in the last 7 days:10,553#52,082by wpdynamics1 month ago
SVG Icon Block: inserts icons from your own sprite via . No frontend PHP, CSS or JS, and one static, cacheable SVG file for all icons.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nusprite
Down in the last 7 days:3,619#59,769by nuw405 years ago
Sprite image generator. PHP methods are available in order to get positioning of each element and write CSS rules.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Sprite Generator
Down in the last 7 days:2,838#71,589by manu22511 months ago
Create one sprite from different images to optimize your website loading!
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day