Highlight important content on your posts and pages inside a box with a drop shadow.
As of April 2026, Drop Shadow Boxes is a WordPress shadows plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 77 reviews. It has been downloaded 196K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 30% this week.
Drop Shadow Boxes highlight important content on your posts, pages and widget areas. Personalise the box with drop shadow effects like raised, lifted and perspective and choose whether the box has an inside shadow, outside shadow and rounded corners. The plugin includes a widget and shortcode builder with a preview so you can test your box before adding it. The shadows will display correctly on most browsers – some older versions of Internet Explorer may not display the shadows – but they will display the box with the content so nothing will be missing on the page.
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This plugin is exactly as described and works great!
This is just an outstanding little plugin that I found today! My thanks to the author creating it as it is now serving a good purpose for me. Easy to install and use…what more could you ask for?
Very much what I was looking for and highly recommended!
Using this thing for years on a site. Still works!
fuktioniert wunderbar
Dosent properly work with wordpress 5.5.3.There is alignment issues happening.please fix,and I will updade my review.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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