Stencil
The fastest and easiest way to design images as you write posts in WordPress. Millions of stock photos, premium icons & templates at your fingertips.
4.1(9 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 years agoAs of April 2026, Stencil is a WordPress design plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.1/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 48K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 15% this week. Top alternative: Layout Grid Block.
4.1/59 reviews
1.0K+active installs
48K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Stencil is the fastest way to create incredible visuals and increase your engagement on social media, blog posts, emails and presentations. Create images faster and easier than you ever imagined.
With Stencil for WordPress, you can design images as you write posts without ever leaving the page!
This 30-second video will show you what you can do with the Stencil plugin for WordPress:
Just some of the major features:
Powerful Image Editor – Designed with simplicity in mind, Stencil is a powerful but lightweight image editor that never gets in your way.
5,000,000+ Royalty-Free Stock Photos – More royalty-free “CC0” images than you’ll know what to do with! Thousands of new photos added every week!
3,100,000+ Icons & Graphics – Beautiful icons right at…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Not working in wp 5.7
by famara2004·4 years ago·1 reply
Not working in wp 5.7
No effective support!
by alainmelsens·5 years ago·2 replies
There is no good support. They say to answer me privately and then finally they say that my problem is not a priority. Then they closed my ticket as solved. This does not helping me further.
In this case, even 1 star is too much. 🙁
They don’t care about issues from free users. This not good publicity.
I will no longer recommend this product to anyone. Unless they follow it up honestly.
- This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by alainmelsens.
wonderful plugin
by Renaat·6 years ago·1 reply
Just amazing, installed the plugin, created a free account and all images are accessible and editable perfectly.
I just hope to experience a fully compatible multisite experience. At the moment my sub site users can not benefit from the Stencil Plugin, only the super admin.
- This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Renaat.
A Fast and Easy Way to Choose, Add, and Edit Images
by Kerry Carron·6 years ago·1 reply
I’ve been using this in client sites for over a year. This is a well maintained, easy to use, and welcome addition to make choosing, adding, and editing images to articles a smooth process.
The developer is active, responsive, and helpful in resolving issues when and if needed. Thanks for this plugin.
Huge time and money saver
by taropaa·6 years ago·1 reply
The service is pretty cool! Very useful for teams, allowing copywriters to manage a larger portion of the process, by allowing them to create the assets for a post themselves, using pre-defined templates.
The plugin worked great for me (multisite, quite atypical setup). A very welcome and well working extension to a very intuitive product.
Download Trends
Today: 7Yesterday: 8This week: 39Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 5.8.0 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.14
100.0%
Top Alternatives to Stencil
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.14.9
README udpates + new logo 🙂
Contributors
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