Best sun plugins for WordPress
The most popular sun plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. LunaSolCal leads with 40+ active installs, ahead of Suntimes Widget (20+) and Helioviewer.org (10+). All 4 plugins tagged “sun” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 sun plugins
- 1.
LunaSolCalThe most installed sun plugin, with 40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 2.Suntimes Widget
20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 3.Helioviewer.org
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4.
All 4 plugins tagged “sun”

LunaSolCal
Up in the last 7 days:82#21,784by Volker Vöcking4 years ago
Wordpress Widget for showing the sunrise and sunset at a given location.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Suntimes Widget
#28,013by Jon Lynch12 years ago
Displays sunrise and sunset times in a widget
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Helioviewer.org
#29,759by keith.hughitt15 years ago
Displays the latest image of the Sun from Helioviewer.org.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day