10 Best MC4WP Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
MC4WP has 2,000+ 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 MC4WP
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Simple Yearly Archive
Closest match4.7 (30) 6,000+ active installsSimple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list.
Shares the wpml tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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SrbTransLatin – Serbian Latinisation
4.6 (38) 2,000+ active installsSrbTransLatin plugin allows you to use both Cyrillic and Latin scripts on your website.
Shares the wpml tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since December 13, 2023.
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4.6 (37) 6,000+ active installsWPML Multilingual for BuddyPress and BuddyBoss allows BuddyPress and BuddyBoss sites to run fully multilingual using the WPML plugin.
Shares the wpml tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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5.0 (20) 5,000+ active installsImport multilingual data from WPML into Polylang.
Shares the wpml tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated 28 days ago.
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4.9 (36) 9,000+ active installsWPML Widgets is a simple to use extension to add a language selector dropdown to your widgets.
Shares the wpml tag on WordPress.org. About 4.5 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.3 (113) 20,000+ active installsSend images to RSS instantly for free. Output blog or WooCommerce photos to Mailchimp RSS email campaigns, ActiveCampaign, Hubspot, Feedly and more.
Shares the mailchimp tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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4.6 (372) 10,000+ active installsThe easiest way to convert your site visitors into email subscribers.
Shares the mailchimp tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated July 6, 2026.
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MailOptin
Paid version availableMailOptin – Popup, Optin Forms & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber Etc.
4.8 (436) 10,000+ active installsCreate popup, optin forms using easy form builder & popup maker. Send automated email to subscribers — Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, Campaign Monitor etc
Shares the mailchimp tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
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5.0 (30) 8,000+ active installsSend Contact Form 7, WPforms, Elementor, Ninja Forms, CRM Perks Forms and many other contact form submissions to Mailchimp.
Shares the mailchimp tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated today.
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FireBox
Paid version availableFireBox – WooCommerce Popup Builder, Exit Intent Popup, Email Optin & Cart Abandonment
4.9 (75) 7,000+ active installsNewsletter optins, discount coupon popups, sticky bars and lightbox modals that capture leads and recover abandoned WooCommerce carts.
Shares the mailchimp tag on WordPress.org. About 3.5 times the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
Switching from MC4WP: common questions
What is the best alternative to MC4WP?
Simple Yearly Archive is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 6,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which MC4WP alternative has the most users?
Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More, with 20,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which MC4WP alternative is rated highest?
FireBox, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 75 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these MC4WP 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 MC4WP 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 MC4WP 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
Simple Yearly Archive is the closest match to MC4WP by the data we track, and Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More has the widest reach with 20,000+ active installs. Integration for Mailchimp and Contact Form 7, WPForms, Elementor, Ninja Forms shipped the most recent release, on September 6, 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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