10 Best Mark Posts Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Mark Posts has 1,000+ 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 Mark Posts
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Archive Content with Archived Post Status
Closest match4.9 (36) 5,000+ active installsUse an "Archived" status to unpublish content without having to trash it.
Shares the status tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated February 17, 2026.
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4.2 (37) 8,000+ active installsWrite the custom stock status with different colors for each woocommerce product, to show in product details and listing pages.
Shares the status tag on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, last updated May 19, 2026.
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4.8 (29) 1,000+ active installsThe goal of this plugin is to show the “stock quantity” under each product in the shop, category and archive pages (wherever there is a loop).
Shares the status tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since February 11, 2025.
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5.0 (40) 7,000+ active installsVery lightweight (vanilla) Javascript that wraps search terms in an HTML5 mark tag within WordPress search results.
Shares the Highlight tag on WordPress.org. About 7 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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The Events Calendar: Category Colors
5.0 (61) 4,000+ active installsAdd event category background colors to The Events Calendar events.
Shares the color tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated September 16, 2025.
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4.9 (57) 10,000+ active installsManage a site-wide central color palette for a uniform look'n'feel! Supports the new block editor, Theme Customizer and many themes and plug …
Shares the color tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since August 16, 2023.
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4.5 (23) 700+ active installsAllow users to change the website style while reading at night, enabling them to easily read and spend more time on your site.
Shares the color tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since November 9, 2020.
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4.7 (20) 3,000+ active installsDo you like giving posts a Featured Image? Try out a Featured Gallery. It's like a Featured Images ... except as many images as you want.
Shares the featured tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since August 2, 2018.
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4.8 (29) 4,000+ active installsA plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types.
Shares the featured tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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5.0 (23) 2,000+ active installsAdd the featured image into your RSS feed (in the media:content). Works nicely with Mailchimp (|RSSITEM:IMAGE|). Light and simple, no options, no clut …
Shares the featured tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since October 12, 2023.
Switching from Mark Posts: common questions
What is the best alternative to Mark Posts?
Archive Content with Archived Post Status is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 5,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Mark Posts alternative has the most users?
Central Color Palette, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Mark Posts alternative is rated highest?
The Events Calendar, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 61 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Mark Posts 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 Mark Posts 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 Mark Posts 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
Archive Content with Archived Post Status is the closest match to Mark Posts by the data we track, and Central Color Palette has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. Highlight Search Terms shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 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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