Best thumbs plugins for WordPress
The most popular thumbs plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. BuddyPress Like leads with 90+ active installs, ahead of WP-Choose-Thumb (20+) and Webcam Gallery for WP (10+). All 14 plugins tagged “thumbs” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 thumbs plugins
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BuddyPress LikeThe most installed thumbs plugin, with 90+ active installs. Rated 3.5 from 26 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
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WP-Choose-Thumb20+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 3.
Webcam Gallery for WP10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 4.
Thumbar Rating Plugin10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 5.
Simple Thumbs10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
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Tui's Category Intro For Archive10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.
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Tui's Author Intro For Archive10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.
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Tui's Author Intro For Post10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.
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Recent Post Lazy Load10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
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Deviant Thumbs10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
All 14 plugins tagged “thumbs”
BuddyPress Like
Down in the last 7 days:75#17,094by darrenmeehan11 years ago
Gives users the ability to 'like' content across your BuddyPress enabled site.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 3.5(26)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-Choose-Thumb
Down in the last 7 days:490#26,262by Dave Ligthart14 years ago
A simple way to add a default thumbnail to your post.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Webcam Gallery for WP
Down in the last 7 days:617#33,116by imseosrl12 years ago
Webcam Gallery for WP allows to create a gallery of pictures by reading the images directly from a directory of your web space.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Thumbar Rating Plugin
Down in the last 7 days:413#34,558by thumbar10 years ago
A free, full-featured rating plugin that also live-mirrors your posts at Thumbar.com to boost your traffic.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simple Thumbs
#36,371by Pär Thernström15 years ago
Create image thumbs from WP attachments, w/ option to crop & fit to wanted size & create IMG-tags w/ correct width & height attributes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tui's Category Intro For Archive
#41,560by stephenbaugh18 years ago
This plugin has been written to insert a category introduction to each archive, based on its category title and despription.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tui's Author Intro For Archive
Up in the last 7 days:5,812#41,992by stephenbaugh18 years ago
This plugin has been written to insert an Author introduction to each Archive, based on their User information, including their bio etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Tui's Author Intro For Post
#42,932by stephenbaugh18 years ago
This plugin has been written to insert an Author introduction to each post, based on its post Author and their bio etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Post Lazy Load
Down in the last 7 days:2,942#45,543by Sajid K.Shaikh8 years ago
Easy and fast load plugin to display in the sidebar a list of linked titles and thumbnails of the most recent postings through shortcodes etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Deviant Thumbs
#47,282by scribu16 years ago
Display deviantART thumbnails on your blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Dynamic-Photo-Album
#48,097dynamic-photo-album16 years ago
This plugin creates a small photo album in the sidebar of your weblog and shows thumbnails of your photos using visual effects (javascript).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day