Easily add crosswords to your Wordpress website, with or without AI help.
As of April 2026, EV Crosswords is a WordPress crosswords plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Devarai Crosswords.
This Plugin allows you to create and add crosswords to pages on your WordPress website. Blocks functionality is required in this version, to add Crosswords to a WordPress page.
The admin interface provides a way for users to make use of AI to generate lists of words and hints to be used in their crosswords.
It also provides a way to use the Creatorive’s Crossword generation tool to automatically create a Crossword from your list of words and hints.
All the above functionality is optional. You can also create a Crossword manually, within the Plugin, by typing your word list, or by manually adding words to a Crossword.
See this video: Crosswords in WordPress on our YouTube Channel for an example of usage.
Development happens in Github:
EV-Crosswords
| WordPress | 6.5+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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