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.
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Top 10 academic plugins
- 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.
Educare600+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 24 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
Academic Blogger's Toolkit300+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 28 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 4.
Scholar Publications Fetcher200+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 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.
Footnotation100+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 5 reviews, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 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.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.
EDU Results Publishing60+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 10.
CitePress50+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
All 36 plugins tagged “academic”
Student Result or Employee Database
Down in the last 7 days:62#6,984by Saad Amin2 years ago
A simple student result or employee database system , can be used for multiple database entry management system. Fully ajax supported.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 3.9(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Educare
Down in the last 7 days:39#8,091by FixBD1 month ago
No. 1 Academic Students & Result Management system for WordPress. Educare helps you effortlessly publish and manage student results online.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.6(24)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Academic Blogger's Toolkit
Down in the last 7 days:19#10,548by dsifford7 years ago
A plugin extending the functionality of Wordpress for academic blogging.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.3(28)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Scholar Publications Fetcher
Up in the last 7 days:80#12,253by valsze2 months ago
Fetch, cache, customize, and display Google Scholar profiles and publications with an easy WordPress admin settings panel.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
JP Students Result Management System
Up in the last 7 days:14#13,037by Skjoy3 years ago
Simple But Powerful Students Result Management System.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.4(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Footnotation
Down in the last 7 days:5#13,725by vhbelvadi9 years ago
An easy way to add footnotes to your posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.8(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Side Matter
Down in the last 7 days:37#14,389by setzer13 years ago
Turns footnotes into sidenotes, magically aligning each note in the sidebar next to its corresponding reference in the text.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(13)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Academic Publications
Up in the last 7 days:18#19,697by Brad12 years ago
Let's you add academic publications to your Wordpress admin page which can then be displayed on your site.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

EDU Results Publishing
Down in the last 7 days:53#20,072by Md Abul Bashar29 days ago
Publish and manage student exam results for schools, colleges, and universities with an easy-to-use WordPress result management system.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

CitePress
#20,204by nusagates1 month ago
Generate and display an interactive, multi-format academic citation box for WordPress posts with one-click copy and realtime style switcher.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Academic Publications Showcase
Down in the last 7 days:15#21,593by havacekm8 months ago
Display publications from Zenodo communities or ORCID author profiles with modern card layouts and customizable designs.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PubMed Posts
Down in the last 7 days:18#22,431by sydcode13 years ago
This plugin adds a dashboard widget that creates posts from PubMed articles, plus a search widget that finds posts with specific article data.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SimplyConf
Up in the last 7 days:801#23,767by Kevon Adonis8 days ago
Manage academic conferences from your WordPress dashboard. Handle abstract submissions, peer reviews, custom fields, and more.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Researcher Profiles for ORCID
#24,406by lalohao2 months ago
Fetch, cache and display researcher profiles from the ORCID Public API via shortcodes. No live API calls on page load.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Commons In A Box
Down in the last 7 days:76#25,094by Boone Gorges3 months ago
A platform for easy and powerful community websites. Powered by BuddyPress.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day

PDF Creator Lite
#25,485by Alex Furr11 years ago
Let visitors and admins create PDFs of your site content at the click of a button.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.5(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Citation Importer
Up in the last 7 days:82#27,262by Stephanie Leary10 years ago
Import a citation or bibliography as posts.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

TheLaTeXLab
#29,379by TheLaTeXLab4 months ago
WordPress citation & bibliography plugin. Paste a DOI, PubMed ID, ISBN, or arXiv ID to insert citations and generate a reference list.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Class Blogs
Up in the last 7 days:145#29,981by oberlincilc14 years ago
Makes it easy to use blogs in your teaching.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Wisdom Journal Manager
Up in the last 7 days:1,113#30,759by Zachary Adam3 months ago
World-class modular academic publishing for WordPress — peer review, submissions, DOI, JATS, citations, REST API.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kblog Metadata
#30,995by philliplord10 years ago
Displays bibliographic metadata both for humans and computers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Student Verification and Discounts
#33,248by ajanuszkiewicz5 months ago
Instantly verify millions of academic users and provide them with a discount for products on your store.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Publiton
Up in the last 7 days:7,060#39,842by zen0nl3 months ago
Auto-updating academic publication lists. Enter your ORCID iD once — your list keeps itself current, powered by OpenAlex.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Borges Bibliography Builder
Up in the last 7 days:4,205#41,833by Dan Knauss2 days ago
Create accessible, structured bibliographies from DOI, PubMed, BibTeX, RIS, CSL-JSON, free text, and manual entries — with RIS export.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 35/day
Kblog Include
Down in the last 7 days:1,792#43,758by philliplord12 years ago
Transcludes content from arXiv and other academic repositories.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Footnotes
Down in the last 7 days:6,462#45,409by yutonet8 years ago
Advanced Footnotes lets you add footnotes on articles via shortcodes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Scholar Sync
Down in the last 7 days:4,799#48,015by researchdigitallabs27 days ago
Automatically sync and display publications and citation metrics for researchers, labs, or an entire faculty.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
academa
#58,123by Ankit Gupta8 years ago
Plugin to add a bibtex-based publication post type
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DiFlowRin Verified References
#67,117by diflowrin5 days ago
Citation checker for WordPress: catch invented and miscited sources before you publish, and show a formatted reference list with DOI links.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 67/day

AcademicCrew
Down in the last 7 days:17,748#67,908by alefiori8224 days ago
Member profiles, courses, projects, and publication management for university research groups — on any WordPress theme.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Reviewer 2 Academic Rejection Stamps & Verdict Widgets
#67,920by Reviewer 22 months ago
Add local, privacy-friendly Reviewer 2 verdict cards, stamps, widgets, and shortcodes to academic blogs.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Abstract Box
Down in the last 7 days:12,354#73,548by Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi8 months ago
Adds a chic and modernist "Abstract" section to posts via a shortcode [abstract], with schema.org JSON-LD structured data.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ConferenceManager
#73,939by creativestrategy2410 days ago
Academic conference management plugin — registration, payment, and document automation for scholarly events.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day