Darklup — WordPress Accessibility Plugin
Darklup – Enhanced WordPress Dark Mode, Dark Theme, Night Mode & Accessibility Plugin
by Darklup · WordPress.org page · Website
Darklup has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 63,611 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on August 17, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.
Darklup at a glance
Is Darklup well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Exclude WooCommerce Products & Categories: To enrich your WooCommerce website, this feature allows you to show the dark mode switch button on some product and…
- Triggering Dark Mode Setting: This amazing feature will let you select particular pages, posts and categories where you don’t want to show the dark mode switch
- Custom CSS Supported Dark Mode: You can edit the specific sections of your WordPress website with custom CSS support in dark mode
- Shortcode integration: You can insert a shortcode [darklup_darkmode_switch] to change the location of the dark mode switch button
- Color Customization: Independently customize the color of various sections of your website such as background color, link color, hover color, etc
- Schedule Dark Mode: Set the WordPress dark mode activation time according to your local time and enjoy the automatic activation of dark mode on the website
- Switch Background Color: You can also customize the switch background color based on your website design and brand identity
- Dark Mode Menu Switch: You can select a menu to display the dark mode switch button beside the menu
- Border Color: Provide different border colors to decorate your website in dark mode
- Link Hover Color: Customize the link hover color to make the link more navigable to the website visitors
- Dark Mode Font Size Kit: You may feel the necessity to change the text’s font size to cope up with your website and this feature will allow you to change the…
- Exclude Elements: You can avoid a particular element or portion to display the dark mode switch button by selecting the class, div, id of your website
Darklup reviews and ratings
44 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
44 reviews
- 5★
-
35
- 4★
-
2
- 3★
-
3
- 2★
-
0
- 1★
-
4
-
Great plugin, the free version works as expected!
Great plugin, the free version works as expected!
Fazlay Rabbi Ahmed -
Very useful
the free version works great, and the support was very helpful.
mjoyshuvo -
Best Performing Dark Mode plugin I've tried, well-priced, but has some issues.
I came from WP Dark Mode after being unhappy with the performance hit on the "free" version and being in complete disbelief of the pricing they had for the pro version (which has the improved loading performance). Darklup started off pretty well, loaded way faster, worked well in testing across my posts, had what I'd consider a reasonable price too. There was a money-back guarantee, so I decided to purchase a lifetime license, this is the first time I have ever spent money on a Wordpress plugin. After buying, I made the effort to get it setup properly on my site, for all my pages, and I quickly noticed there was quite a lot of work required: I noticed that many of the default Wordpress blocks were completely unreadable with Darklup enabled, causing accessibility issues. I had to set up exclusions for all of these along with custom CSS to get them to work in the Dark mode properly, this took me about 2 hours to get right. I also noticed that after installing Darklup I was getting console errors on my site, which were coming from Darklup, I reached out to support, and they corrected the issue after some back and forth and testing on my part. It seemed that debug code was left in, causing all browsers to attempt to connect to the dev environment on the plugin dev's computer. The next problem I found was that wp-login had broken positioning for the Dark mode slider, this looked problematic but was thankfully only a minor issue, the developer was able to fix this one pretty quickly. Following the above I ran the plugin for another week, and found an issue with the "Exclude Element" setting, where it does not properly exclude an element from another one of my plugins, this causes problems with the functionality (not just visuals) of the other plugin. Even after configuring Darklup to be excluded on pages with this block, it still runs and causes the issue.I have also reached out to the developer on this one and am currently awaiting a response. I imagine I will get that l
chrisproau -
Too limited in Lite version
The plugin is effective but has display bugs that can only be fixed with the PRO version, which is a shame.
momo-fr -
Excellent Plugin and Outstanding Support
I’m very happy with Darklup. Not only is it easy to set up and delivers an excellent dark mode experience, but when I had an issue, the support team genuinely cared, provided help, and resolved it quickly and efficiently. A well-deserved 5 stars.
solidoes -
Outstanding Plugin. Best of its type, by far!
Darklup rocks! Among its many strengths, it breezes past theme issues that break logic of lesser plugins, and honors user device settings incredibly well. The list is long. I licensed the pro version, and received 5-star support after I lost my registration information. I've never needed support for the plugin itself; -- it just works.
netentry
Where Darklup ranks on WordPress.org
The rankings we track that Darklup appears in, and how its position changed over 30 days.
| Ranking | WordPress.org placement | Position | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Accessibility Plugins | #44 in search, not tagged | #74 | – |
Darklup alternatives
Plugins that solve the same problem, ranked by how closely they overlap with Darklup.
-
Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 3,000+ installs · 4.8 -
Darkify 700+ installs · 4.8 -
Plugin Check 10,000+ installs · 4.5 -
Definitely allow mobile zooming 7,000+ installs · 5.0 -
WP Accessibility Helper 10,000+ installs · 4.7
Details
Experience Darklup — Your WordPress ally for dark mode, dark themes, night mode and accessibility. Switch to an eye-friendly more inclusive web experi …
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- accessibility widgets
- dark mode
- Dark mode plugin
- dark theme
- wp dark mode
- Version
- 4.0.1
- Last updated
- Aug 17, 2026
- First published
- Jan 7, 2021
- Requires WordPress
- 6.5
- Tested up to
- 7.0.4
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Darklup FAQ
What does Darklup do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Darklup offers Exclude WooCommerce Products & Categories: To enrich your WooCommerce website, this feature allows you to show the dark mode switch button on some product and, Triggering Dark Mode Setting: This amazing feature will let you select particular pages, posts and categories where you don’t want to show the dark mode switch, Custom CSS Supported Dark Mode: You can edit the specific sections of your WordPress website with custom CSS support in dark mode, Shortcode integration: You can insert a shortcode [darklup_darkmode_switch] to change the location of the dark mode switch button and Color Customization: Independently customize the color of various sections of your website such as background color, link color, hover color, etc.
How many active installs does Darklup have?
WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs for Darklup as of September 7, 2026.
Is Darklup still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on August 17, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.
Is Darklup free?
Darklup is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.
Where does Darklup rank among Accessibility Plugins?
Darklup is #74 in the WordPress.org Accessibility Plugins ranking.