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Best academic plugins for WordPress

The most popular academic plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Student Result or Employee Database leads with 900+ active installs, ahead of Educare (600+) and Academic Blogger's Toolkit (300+). All 36 plugins tagged “academic” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.

Installs aren’t everything: a recent release, a “Tested up to” that matches the current WordPress, and support threads that get resolved show a plugin is looked after. Open any plugin for its downloads, rank history and alternatives.

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Top 10 academic plugins

  1. 1.
    Student Result or Employee Database

    The most installed academic plugin, with 900+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 10 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.

  2. 2.
    Educare

    600+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 24 reviews, updated 1 month ago.

  3. 3.
    Academic Blogger's Toolkit

    300+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 28 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.

  4. 4.
    Scholar Publications Fetcher

    200+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.

  5. 5.
    JP Students Result Management System

    100+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 7 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.

  6. 6.
    Footnotation

    100+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 5 reviews, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.

  7. 7.
    Side Matter

    100+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 13 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.

  8. 8.
    WP Academic Publications

    60+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.

  9. 9.
    EDU Results Publishing

    60+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 4 weeks ago.

  10. 10.
    CitePress

    50+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.

All 36 plugins tagged “academic”