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.

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Autoptimize

Active Installations: 1,000,000+

4.7

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 icon

Responsive Lightbox & Gallery

Active Installations: 100,000+

4.9

1,965 ratings

Updated: 2/18/2025

The most popular lightbox plugin and responsive gallery builder for WordPress.

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WebP Express

Active Installations: 400,000+

4.4

159 ratings

Updated: 4/7/2024

Serve autogenerated WebP images instead of jpeg/png to browsers that supports WebP.

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Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails

Active Installations: 200,000+

4.8

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! icon

Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!

Active Installations: 80,000+

4.6

675 ratings

Updated: 3/12/2025

Clean your WordPress! Eliminate unused and broken media files. For a faster, and better website.

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Media Library Assistant

Active Installations: 70,000+

4.8

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+

4.9

160 ratings

Updated: 10/26/2023

Adds the ability to use unique custom header images on individual pages, posts or categories or tags.

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Lightbox with PhotoSwipe

Active Installations: 20,000+

4.9

110 ratings

Updated: 12/27/2024

Integration of PhotoSwipe (http://photoswipe.com) for WordPress.

jQuery Pin It Button for Images

Active Installations: 10,000+

4.6

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+

4.8

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

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No Right Click Images

Active Installations: 20,000+

4.8

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 icon

Media Library Organizer – WordPress Media Library Folders & File Manager

Active Installations: 10,000+

4.7

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.