10 Best Advanced Image Styles Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Advanced Image Styles has 9,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Advanced Image Styles
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WP-RTL
Closest match5.0 (20) 2,000+ active installsAdds two buttons to the TinyMCE editor to enable writing text in Left to Right (LTR) and Right to Left (RTL) directions.
Shares the formatting, tinyMCE tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.9 (32) 9,000+ active installsEasily disable the default wpautop filter on a post by post basis.
Shares the editor, formatting tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since April 7, 2021.
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Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg
4.8 (20) 3,000+ active installsAdditional tools for rich text fields in Gutenberg.
Shares the editor, formatting tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since February 27, 2019.
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4.6 (71) 40,000+ active installsSimple, lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. Formerly the WP JQuery Lightbox.
Shares the image, photo tags on WordPress.org. About 4.4 times the installs, last updated March 25, 2026.
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4.3 (23) 5,000+ active installsView image, video (YouTube, Vimeo), page, inline HTML, custom content in lightbox. Add jQuery Colorbox lightbox effect to your WordPress site.
Shares the image, photo tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since August 16, 2025.
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Easy Image Collage
Paid version available4.7 (22) 3,000+ active installsCreate beautiful responsive image collages for all your posts and pages
Shares the image, photo tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 19 days ago.
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4.8 (21) 1,000+ active installsChange Case adds buttons to change text case in the WordPress visual editor.
Shares the editor, tinyMCE tags on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 9,000+, last updated 25 days ago.
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5.0 (21) 3,000+ active installsAdds back the missing "title" field in the Insert/Edit URL box in WordPress 4.2
Shares the editor, tinyMCE tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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Post and Page Builder by BoldGrid – Visual Drag and Drop Editor
4.7 (140) 50,000+ active installsPost and Page Builder is a standalone plugin which adds functionality to the existing TinyMCE Editor.
Shares the editor, tinyMCE tags on WordPress.org. About 5.6 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.6, last updated 7 days ago.
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4.8 (22) 3,000+ active installsEnables upscaling of thumbnails for small media attachments
Shares the editor, image tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
Switching from Advanced Image Styles: common questions
What is the best alternative to Advanced Image Styles?
WP-RTL is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 2,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Advanced Image Styles alternative has the most users?
Post and Page Builder, with 50,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Advanced Image Styles alternative is rated highest?
Post and Page Builder, rated 4.7 out of 5 by 140 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Advanced Image Styles alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Advanced Image Styles score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Advanced Image Styles on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
WP-RTL is the closest match to Advanced Image Styles by the data we track, and Post and Page Builder has the widest reach with 50,000+ active installs. Post and Page Builder shipped the most recent release, on August 31, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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