12 Best WordPress Image Plugins
Optimize and enhance your WordPress images with powerful plugins. Features include compression, galleries, lazy loading, and advanced image management tools.
Autoptimize
Active Installations: 1,000,000+
1,416 ratings
Updated: 12/26/2024
Autoptimize speeds up your website by optimizing JS, CSS, images (incl. lazy-load), HTML and Google Fonts, asyncing JS, removing emoji cruft and more.
Responsive Lightbox & Gallery
Active Installations: 100,000+
1,965 ratings
Updated: 2/18/2025
The most popular lightbox plugin and responsive gallery builder for WordPress.
WebP Express
Active Installations: 400,000+
159 ratings
Updated: 4/7/2024
Serve autogenerated WebP images instead of jpeg/png to browsers that supports WebP.
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails
Active Installations: 200,000+
209 ratings
Updated: 11/24/2024
List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
Active Installations: 80,000+
675 ratings
Updated: 3/12/2025
Clean your WordPress! Eliminate unused and broken media files. For a faster, and better website.
Media Library Assistant
Active Installations: 70,000+
192 ratings
Updated: 12/30/2024
Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.
Unique Headers
Active Installations: 20,000+
160 ratings
Updated: 10/26/2023
Adds the ability to use unique custom header images on individual pages, posts or categories or tags.
Lightbox with PhotoSwipe
Active Installations: 20,000+
110 ratings
Updated: 12/27/2024
Integration of PhotoSwipe (http://photoswipe.com) for WordPress.
jQuery Pin It Button for Images
Active Installations: 10,000+
305 ratings
Updated: 10/1/2020
Highlights images on hover and adds a Pinterest "Pin It" button over them for easy pinning.
Attachments
Active Installations: 10,000+
53 ratings
Updated: 2/10/2022
Attachments allows you to simply append any number of items from your WordPress Media Library to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types
No Right Click Images
Active Installations: 20,000+
50 ratings
Updated: 11/13/2024
Disables right click context menu on images to help deter leeches from stealing images.
Media Library Organizer – WordPress Media Library Folders & File Manager
Active Installations: 10,000+
118 ratings
Updated: 11/12/2024
Enhance file and folder management in your WordPress Media Library for images, videos, and other media.
How We Rank Plugins
To determine the Best WordPress Image Plugins we used a comprehensive scoring system that considers multiple factors. We analyze active installations, download counts, user ratings, and rating consistency on a weekly basis. To ensure quality, we only include plugins with a substantial number of reviews. This methodology helps us identify plugins that are not only popular but also consistently reliable and well-maintained.
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Best WordPress Image Optimization Plugins
Optimize your WordPress images for faster loading times and better performance. Compress, resize, and convert images automatically while maintaining quality.
Best WordPress Image Gallery Plugins
Create stunning photo galleries on WordPress with professional gallery plugins. Display images in grids, sliders, and masonry layouts with lightbox integration.
Best WordPress WebP Plugins
Convert and serve images in WebP format for faster loading WordPress websites. Optimize image delivery while maintaining quality with automated conversion tools.