Site Kit is a one-stop solution for WordPress users to use everything Google has to offer to make them successful on the web.
- Installs
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- Rating
- 4.2 (1K)
- Updated
- 12 days ago
Web Stories
Web Stories are a visual storytelling format for the open web which immerses your readers in fast-loading, full-screen, and visually rich experiences.
- Active installs
- 60,000+
- #684 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 2.9M
- 2,897,116
- Downloads, 30 days
- 6K
- 1.4K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5
- 87 reviews
- Last updated
- 18 months ago
- May 15, 2025
- Version
- 1.42.0
- 57 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | May 15, 2025Not updated for over a year |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 6.8.12Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.6 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | September 22, 2020 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 2 threads resolved (50%) |
Reviews
4.2 / 5 from 87 reviews
| 5 stars | 61 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 6 |
| 3 stars | 5 |
| 2 stars | 5 |
| 1 star | 10 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Web Stories are a free, open-web, visual storytelling format for the web, enabling you to easily create visual narratives with engaging animations and tappable interactions, and immerse your readers in great and fast-loading full-screen experiences.
Benefits of Web Stories
The Web Stories format puts features and capabilities at your fingertips to engage with your audience via the power of storytelling on the open web. Specifically, you can:
- Create beautiful and engaging content easily: Web Stories make the production of stories as easy as possible from a technical perspective.
- Enjoy creative flexibility for editorial freedom and branding: The Web Stories format comes with preset but flexible layout templates, standardized UI controls, and components for sharing and adding follow-on content.
- Share and link your stories on the open web: Web Stories are part of the open web and can be shared and embedded across sites and apps without being confined to a single ecosystem.
- Track and measure your stories: Supports analytics and bookend capabilities for viral sharing and monetization.
- Capture the attention of your readers by offering fast loading times to your stories: Web Stories are lightning fast so that your audience stays engaged and entertained.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
What browsers are supported?
For an optimal Web Story creation experience, we recommend using the latest version of commonly popular web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge).
Is Web Stories for WordPress compatible with other WordPress plugins?
Because the Web Story format is new to the web ecosystem, some WordPress plugins may need extra support. We are working to improve compatibility with the Web Story editor and encourage you to file any bugs and requests in the support forum.
Can I use Web Stories for WordPress on a touch screen?
The Web Story editor is not currently supported on touch screen devices, such as a smartphone or tablet.
How do I make Web Stories appear in Google and other search engines?
For better chances of being discovered, after publishing your Web Story, we encourage you to embed it into a regular article or post on your site by using the Web Stories Gutenberg block.
While the default sitemaps in WordPress and most popular plugins handle it automatically, we encourage you to check that your Web Stories are included in your XML sitemaps.
How can I optimize Web Stories to show up on search engines?
Web Stories created using Web Stories for WordPress use what’s provided in the Document tab inside the editor to generate schema.org and social meta-data automatically. Ensure you review and update all requested metadata, including cover image, excerpt and publisher logo. Please see SEO for Web Stories for further SEO guidance.
How do I implement Analytics in my Web Stories?
There are two ways to include analytics in your Web Stories:
- Add your Google Analytics ID in the “Settings”.
- If you use the Site Kit by Google WordPress plugin, you can set up Google Analytics there.
Latest changelog entry
- Enhancement: raises minimum WordPress version to 6.6.
- Enhancement: updated list of available Google Fonts.
- Fixed: resolved issue with lightbox when using shortcode.
Screenshots
Web Stories for WordPress brings a powerful editor right into your WordPress admin. 
Easily create Web Stories with our drag-and-drop editor. 
Explore our WYSIWYG editor with easy access to many editing tools (shown here: zooming and cropping media) 
Get started building your first story by editing one of our expressive, fully built template stories included with the editor.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.