10 Best PublishPress Capabilities Alternatives in 2026
Updated October 22, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
PublishPress Capabilities has 100,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to PublishPress Capabilities
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Admin and Site Enhancements
Closest matchAdmin and Site Enhancements (ASE)
5.0 (424) 200,000+ active installsDuplicate post, post order, image resize, email via SMTP, admin menu editor, custom css / code, disable gutenberg and much more in a single plugin.
About 2 times the installs, rated 5.0 against 4.7, last updated 3 days ago.
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Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings
4.8 (7,517) 4 million+ active installsGrow your organic traffic and AI visibility with powerful SEO tools, XML sitemaps, Schema automation, and built-in AI SEO, all in one place.
About 40 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 16 days ago.
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Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, Appointments and more!
4.2 (551) 60,000+ active installsEvents calendar and booking system: bookings, reservations, appointments, scheduling, event registration, tickets and recurring events.
About half the installs, rated 4.2 against 4.7, last updated today.
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User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor
4.7 (736) 40,000+ active installsPowerful user profile plugin to create front-end user registration forms, login & user profile forms. Includes user role editor & content restriction.
About a third of the installs, last updated 3 days ago.
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All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall
4.7 (1,718) 1 million+ active installsProtect your website investment with All-In-One Security (AIOS) – a comprehensive and easy to use security plugin designed especially for WordPress.
About 10 times the installs, last updated September 17, 2026.
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4.8 (726) 300,000+ active installsManage all your WordPress updates, including individual updates, automatic updates, logs, and loads more. This also works very well with WordPress Mul …
About 3 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated August 31, 2026.
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WP User Manager – Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile Builder & Member Directory
4.7 (350) 10,000+ active installsRegistration forms, a frontend login form, user profiles and a member directory for WordPress. Add Stripe payments and content restriction.
10,000+ installs against 100,000+, last updated 2 days ago.
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Limit Login Attempts Security – Login Security, 2FA, Firewall, Brute Force Prevention
4.8 (1,488) 1 million+ active installsWordPress login security with brute force protection, Two-factor authentication (2FA/MFA), firewall, IP/country blocking, and login monitoring
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 29 days ago.
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UsersWP – Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile & Members Directory plugin for WP
4.7 (183) 20,000+ active installsLight weight Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile and Members Directory plugin.
About a quarter of the installs, last updated 15 days ago.
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Forminator Forms
Paid version availableForminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
4.8 (2,139) 600,000+ active installsBest WordPress form builder plugin. Create contact forms, payment forms & order forms with 1000+ integrations.
About 6 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 8 days ago.
PublishPress Capabilities against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
Switching from PublishPress Capabilities: common questions
What is the best alternative to PublishPress Capabilities?
Admin and Site Enhancements is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 200,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which PublishPress Capabilities alternative has the most users?
Rank Math SEO, with 4 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which PublishPress Capabilities alternative is rated highest?
Admin and Site Enhancements, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 424 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these PublishPress Capabilities alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with PublishPress Capabilities score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against PublishPress Capabilities on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Admin and Site Enhancements is the closest match to PublishPress Capabilities by the data we track, and Rank Math SEO has the widest reach with 4 million+ active installs. Events Manager shipped the most recent release, on October 21, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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