Best wikipedia plugins for WordPress
The most popular wikipedia plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Wikipedia Preview leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of WP Wiki Tooltip (200+) and Embed Wikimedia (50+). All 23 plugins tagged “wikipedia” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 wikipedia plugins
- 1.Wikipedia Preview
The most installed wikipedia plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 37 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 2.
WP Wiki Tooltip200+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 18 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.Embed Wikimedia
50+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 4.InfoLink
40+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.8.4.
- 5.
Summary box for Wikipedia links30+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 5 months ago.
- 6.
Click to Translate10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 7.Wiki on Medal
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 8.WikiLink
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.8.4.
- 9.Wp-Wikipedia-Excerpt
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 18 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.3.2.
- 10.Phototools
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
All 23 plugins tagged “wikipedia”
Wikipedia Preview
Down in the last 7 days:11#6,717by Wikimedia Foundation26 days ago
Wikipedia Preview lets you show a popup card with a short summary from Wikipedia when a reader clicks or hovers over a link.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(37)
- Downloads
- 24/day

WP Wiki Tooltip
Down in the last 7 days:17#11,738by Nico Danneberg1 year ago
Adds explaining tooltips querying their content from a MediaWiki installation, e.g. Wikipedia.org.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.8(18)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Embed Wikimedia
Up in the last 7 days:100#21,263by samwilson7 years ago
The Embed Wikimedia plugin adds support for embedding photos from Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
InfoLink
Up in the last 7 days:328#21,435by Alexander Rauscha13 years ago
Quickly add Links to Wikipedia, IMDB Sites or search for site/blog or news with Google. And New with 1.3 also your bookmarked Links.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Summary box for Wikipedia links
#24,999by Dominik Fehr5 months ago
Enhance your site with Wikipedia summary boxes! Offer instant info previews on existing and new Wikipedia links without altering your website code.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Click to Translate
Down in the last 7 days:1,433#34,103by Woodpecker Learning1 year ago
Click to Translate is a bilingual dictionary lookup tool for every WordPress site. Definitions from Wiktionary and Wikipedia.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wiki on Medal
#36,214by Piotr Pesta11 years ago
Wiki on Medal is a widget that lets your visitors to see article on medal (featured article) from Wikipedia.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WikiLink
#37,507by eduardosada17 years ago
An easier way to link to Wikipedia.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wp-Wikipedia-Excerpt
Up in the last 7 days:4,511#39,121wp-wikipedia-excerpt18 years ago
This plugin replaces [wikipedia]topic[/wikipedia] with a wikipedia search link for that term.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Phototools
Up in the last 7 days:7,007#39,894by jondor7 years ago
Add wikipedia extracts to your page as a widgid, above or under your content or using shortcode's wherever you like.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wikipedia Anniversaries
#42,956by Piotr Pesta11 years ago
Wikipedia Anniversaries is a widget that lets your visitors to see important history dates from Wikipedia.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wikipedia for tag pages
Down in the last 7 days:5,050#46,329by Haldaug13 years ago
A widget that displays excerpts from Wikipedia articles relevant to the tag on tag-pages. Support for multiple languages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wikipedia Widget
Down in the last 7 days:4,818#47,625by asimeon11 years ago
Shows a simple Ajax based Wikipedia search-formular and the results for the current post/page title or default keywords.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
linkle
Down in the last 7 days:7,062#47,953linkle18 years ago
Easily embed links to wikipedia topics, amazon book sales, php documentation, and more with [ln linktype]topic[/ln].
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Reference 2 Wiki
Down in the last 7 days:8,226#48,540by flashpixx14 years ago
Creates links to Wikipedia with different languages
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

wpToWikipedia
Up in the last 7 days:10,819#56,600by abe0018 years ago
wpToWikipedia crea un widget che inserisce un link a wikipedia relativo al titolo dell'articolo, cerca ossia il titolo su wikipedia.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
LinkMaker
Down in the last 7 days:8,388#62,631by Dan1 year ago
LinkMaker turns links pointing to linkmaker into live Wikipedia searches using the link text.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Wikimedia Commons Picture of The Day for WP Login
Down in the last 7 days:3,940#74,193by Mikael Korpela9 years ago
See today's Wikimedia Commons picture of the day behind WordPress login screen.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day