Highlights images on hover and adds a Pinterest "Pin It" button over them for easy pinning.
As of April 2026, jQuery Pin It Button for Images is a WordPress image plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 305 reviews. It has been downloaded 705K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 60% this week. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
If you’re looking for an easy way to pin images in your blog posts and pages, this plugin will help you with that. It highlights images and adds a “Pin it” button over them once the user hovers his mouse over an image. Once the user clicks the “Pin it” button, the plugin shows a pop-up window with the image and a description. Everything is ready for pinning, although the user can alter the description.
The plugin allows you to:
It works great! Love it. Thank you.
Works smoothly!
Great look of Pinterest image.
works very fine
Just do what it says!
Easy to use and useful settings.
Thanks!
| WordPress | 3.3.0+ requiredTested up to 5.5.18 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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