Custom CSS entry and visual editing
The names distinguish custom-CSS plugins from a visually oriented editor, with adoption ranging from 30,000 to 100,000 installs.
- Simple Custom CSS Plugin: Has 100,000 active installs and was last updated 20 months ago.
- Simple CSS: Has 80,000 active installs and was last updated 13 months ago.
- WP Add Custom CSS: Has 60,000 active installs and was last updated 14 months ago.
- Visual CSS Style Editor: Has 30,000 active installs and was updated 2 months ago, the most recent update among these four.
CSS for blocks, widgets, and stylesheets
Several popular listings point to narrower CSS contexts, though plugin names alone do not establish their full feature sets.
- Blocks Animation: CSS Animations for Gutenberg Blocks: Its name connects CSS animation with Gutenberg blocks; it has 90,000 active installs and was updated this month.
- Widget CSS Classes: Its name points to CSS classes in a widget context; it has 80,000 active installs and was last updated 24 months ago.
- WP-SCSS: Its name signals an association with SCSS; it has 40,000 active installs and was updated this month.
Where CSS overlaps with scripts and site performance
Related-tag overlap shows that CSS listings often intersect with scripting, markup, performance, and theme topics.
The largest overlaps are javascript (57 plugins) and js (40), followed by html (23), performance (19), and theme (19). Clear Cache for Me and Scripts n Styles are examples whose names point toward adjacent concerns, though the names alone do not define their full functions.
A concentrated leader in a lightly maintained category
Install counts cluster sharply at the top, while recent updates are not common across the category.
WPCode has 3 million active installs, but only 2 of the 340 CSS plugins reach 100,000 installs; 16 reach 10,000. Just 20% were updated in the last year. Among listed leaders, WPCode, Blocks Animation, and WP-SCSS were updated this month, while Simple Custom CSS Plugin was last updated 20 months ago, Widget CSS Classes 24 months ago, and Scripts n Styles 41 months ago.