10 Best WP Popular Posts Alternatives in 2026
Updated October 22, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
WP Popular Posts 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 WP Popular Posts
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Pods
Closest matchPods – Custom Content Types and Fields
4.8 (418) 100,000+ active installsPods is a framework for creating, managing, and deploying customized content types and fields for any project.
A similar number of installs, rated 4.8 against 4.5, last updated August 31, 2026.
- 2
Disable Comments – Remove Comments & Stop Spam [Multi-Site Support]
4.7 (281) 1 million+ active installsDisable comments site-wide or by post type, delete existing comments in bulk, and block comment spam via REST API and XML-RPC. Multisite ready.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.5, last updated September 1, 2026.
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CleanTalk Anti-Spam – Complete Spam Protection
4.8 (3,219) 200,000+ active installsAdvanced antispam for comments, registrations, contact forms, WooCommerce, plus email validation and protection. We catch spam others miss!
About 2 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.5, last updated today.
- 4
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 4.5, last updated 8 days ago.
- 5
4.6 (259) 200,000+ active installsAdd Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, WooCommerce, Contact Forms & more. The user-friendly, privacy-preserving reCAPTCHA alternative. 100% free!
About 2 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.5, last updated 23 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 4.5, last updated 16 days ago.
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WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images, Minify & Clean database to boost page speed & performance
4.8 (2,616) 1 million+ active installsGet caching and more with this powerful cache plugin. Cache, optimize images, clean your database and minify for maximum performance.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.5, last updated September 21, 2026.
- 8
4.6 (276) 1 million+ active installsAdmin UI for creating custom content types like post types and taxonomies
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.5, last updated July 14, 2026.
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Code Snippets
Paid version available4.7 (509) 1 million+ active installsManage custom WordPress code in one dashboard. Create PHP and HTML snippets, preview code, track snippet totals and reuse code across sites.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.5, last updated today.
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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, rated 4.7 against 4.5, last updated September 17, 2026.
Switching from WP Popular Posts: common questions
What is the best alternative to WP Popular Posts?
Pods is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 100,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which WP Popular Posts alternative has the most users?
Rank Math SEO, with 4 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which WP Popular Posts alternative is rated highest?
Rank Math SEO, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 7,517 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these WP Popular 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 WP Popular 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 WP Popular 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
Pods is the closest match to WP Popular Posts by the data we track, and Rank Math SEO has the widest reach with 4 million+ active installs. CleanTalk Anti-Spam 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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