Best ad plugins for WordPress
The most popular ad plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Image Widget leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Meks Easy Ads Widget (10K+) and Ad Widget for WordPress (2K+). All 79 plugins tagged “ad” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 ad plugins
- 1.
Image WidgetThe most installed ad plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 287 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 2.
Meks Easy Ads Widget10K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 14 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 3.
Ad Widget for WordPress2K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 16 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 4.
Floating Ads Bottom2K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 7 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.
Master Post Advert1K+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 6.
The Moneytizer1K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 42 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.
Realbig For WordPress800+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 8.
In-Post Ads500+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 9.
CS Shop300+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 10.
Corner Ad300+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 32 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
All 79 plugins tagged “ad”
Image Widget
Up in the last 7 days:1#398by Nexcess6 months ago
A simple image widget that uses the native WordPress media manager to add image widgets to your site.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.9(287)
- Downloads
- 344/day
Meks Easy Ads Widget
Down in the last 7 days:5#1,830by Meks2 years ago
Display unlimited number of ads inside your WordPress widget.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.1(14)
- Downloads
- 38/day
Ad Widget for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:3#4,380by Broadstreet1 year ago
Easily upload ad images and ad code to your sidebar. For those that don't need or want a complicated ad management system.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.3(16)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Floating Ads Bottom
Up in the last 7 days:15#4,671by Aby Rafa1 year ago
Show floating adsense at the bottom of your visitor screen, increase CTR with The Floating Ads at the bottom Wordpress Plugin.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.4(7)
- Downloads
- 18/day
Master Post Advert
Down in the last 7 days:16#5,523by m_i_n9 years ago
Display advertising between the introduction and post content.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
The Moneytizer
Down in the last 7 days:11#5,712by lvaudore8 months ago
Monetize your website thanks to advertising. The « all in one » solution to make you earn money thanks to a wide range of ad formats.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.8(42)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Realbig For WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:102#7,569by nikmelnik1 year ago
Плагин для монетизации от RealBig.media
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
In-Post Ads
Down in the last 7 days:26#8,691by AMP-MODE3 years ago
A plugin to display ads inside your pages or posts.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 7/day
CS Shop
Up in the last 7 days:3#10,236by cottonspace8 years ago
Easy to create a affiliate products page of affiliate services in Japan.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Corner Ad
Up in the last 7 days:316#10,473by codepeople2 months ago
Corner Ad is a minimally invasive advertising display that uses any of your webpage's top corners - a position typically under-utilized by develo …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.7(32)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Sticky Ads Lightweight
Down in the last 7 days:227#10,774by Saurabh Guttedar15 days ago
Display Sticky Ad in the Top/Bottom of your screen easily
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Ads for Genesis
Up in the last 7 days:15#11,273by monetizemore26 days ago
Ads for Genesis allows you to display any kind of ads without coding in your Genesis theme.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 9/day
Just another Sape.ru integration
Down in the last 7 days:7#12,508by kowack11 years ago
Integrate Sape.ru monetization to your site in two clicks.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ad Rotator
Up in the last 7 days:2#13,783by Dmytro Shteflyuk17 years ago
Ad Rotator is a simple widget to display random HTML code (advertisements) from a given group of HTML-chunks on sidebar.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lazy Widget Loader
Up in the last 7 days:22#15,254by itthinx13 years ago
Lazy Widget Loader provides lazy loading for widgets to improve page loading. Use on slow widgets with content from Facebook, Twitter, AdSense ...
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Insert Ads On Post
Down in the last 7 days:71#15,876by Aby Rafa1 year ago
Insert Ads On Post allow you to insert ads in post content or in single post and page post, ad position is above and below post content.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Ad King Pro
Down in the last 7 days:42#16,158by Ash Durham10 years ago
Ad King Pro allows you to easily manage and track your on-site advertising. Upload, link, go.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 2.8(19)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Affiliate Ads for cbAds.com
Down in the last 7 days:113#20,649by cbads2 years ago
This plugin creates a banner in post and in widget areas to display Vacation Rentals ads on your site. The average commission is $200 per book.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.7(14)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Adrotate Extra Settings
#20,891by Daniele Scasciafratte8 years ago
Ultra light plugin for Wordpress that add new tiny features to AdRotate/AdRotate Pro (not affiliated)
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Image Widget
Down in the last 7 days:57#23,025by Rakesh Lawaju (Racase)11 years ago
A Simple WordPress image widget that uses the native WordPress media manager or custom image link to add image widgets to site.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Really Simple Ad Injection
#25,087by poer14 years ago
Really Simple Ad Injection plugin will help you automatically inject any kind of ad code inside your post content.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ad Builder for AdRotate
Down in the last 7 days:644#29,123by Broadstreet6 years ago
Do you sell digital ads for your website? There's one surefire way to impress potential advertising clients in sales meetings: Show them somethin …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
wizScriber
Up in the last 7 days:651#29,303by Bill Zimmerman11 years ago
Create attention-grabbing animation ads that knocks on your visitor's screen and shows them your most important message ...in 5 seconds!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
sovrn WPTouch Mobile Ad Manager
#31,366by ladunham12 years ago
Get your WordPress site mobile-enabled and start monetizing those mobile readers with sovrn mobile ad manager!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Ads Posting
#31,511by rosdyana.kusuma11 years ago
Nowadays, much blogger monetize their blogs with ads serving like Adsense, Chitika and etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
AdRotater Email Ad Reports
Down in the last 7 days:382#32,236by Xylus Themes9 years ago
AdRotater Email Ad Reports allow you to send monthly ad reports to advertisers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Adcovery
Down in the last 7 days:252#33,036by Adcovery4 months ago
Adcovery's plugin keeps your Adcovery Third Party Init code up to date!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ads Campaigns
Down in the last 7 days:769#34,566by alitaj11 years ago
> Create Facebook Ads and Remarketing Ads from your wordpress! Create, monitor and schedule your ads easily. Use the Ad Buddy system to automatical …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
HELLDAP
#34,744by qoelhex13 years ago
Auth LDAP / AD, Simple as HELL !
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ads after first paragraph
Up in the last 7 days:9,289#36,040by iFour Technolab Pvt. Ltd.9 years ago
This plugin includes user Ads code to post or webpage after first paragraph with additional feature of sticky Ads bar in sidebars.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple GAM
#36,585by termel6 years ago
Finally an easy plugin to add Google Ad Manager (GAM) blocks into WP - shortcode and template function.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Shink monetization
Up in the last 7 days:3,254#36,741by adsnet5 years ago
This is the official Shink plugin for Wordpress. It allows you to configure and use Full Page Script, Website Entry Script.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ads
Down in the last 7 days:2,080#37,598by Sam11 years ago
Ads is a plugin that allows you to insert ads anywhere into your post just by using a simple shortcode. Most importantly there have no limits.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
RedPic ADS Manager Lite
Down in the last 7 days:1,589#38,388by Vladimir5 years ago
JS/HTML ads block manager. Allows you to create and insert blocks of code anywhere on the blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ads Into Post
Up in the last 7 days:7,523#39,134by eaxjp9 years ago
Plugin for putting Ads in H tags and P tags inside articles and top of article and bottom of article. Also supports AMP.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ad Block Defender
#39,171by ipdmsolutions10 years ago
This simple ad block defender plugin detects if a user is using ad blocking software and asks them to reconsider if they are.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
mySimpleAds WordPress Ad Manager
#39,537by clippersoft13 years ago
The wordpress plugin will allow you to easily place your mySimpleAds Ads anywhere into posts, pages, or templates.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Better Ads
Up in the last 7 days:3,422#39,671by mehedee11 years ago
Better Ads is aimed to make managing ads easy on your wordpress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Linkrex Monetizer
Down in the last 7 days:4,230#39,758by Naman Dixit8 years ago
Official Linkrex.net plugin. Monetize your website easily with short links.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lazyzoun Amazon Products
Up in the last 7 days:3,717#40,014by akrat15 years ago
Lazyzoun is the easy way to add any amazon product to your sidebar. If you are writing Reviews about amazon items, it helps you monetize your blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Amazing Ads Manager
#40,399by Victor TIN(mrdonrule)11 years ago
Randomly and Customizable display of advertisements on single post page or category archive page by category (categories) or custom post types.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
AdTaily Widget Light
#41,696by maxbmx16 years ago
Simple AdTaily Widget for WordPress
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Author Help Indie Ads
Down in the last 7 days:7,258#41,933by Robin Phillips5 months ago
Adds a shortcode and widget to display an ad from Author Help Indie Ads (https://ian.authorhelp.uk)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
adBlock Alerter
Down in the last 7 days:5,638#43,702by SuperWebDev12 years ago
Detects if a user is using adBlock, adBlock Plus or any other software that might be disabling ads on your website and prompts them to disable it.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rotating Ad Plugin
#43,822by jprobst2113 years ago
Born from a need to create rotating ads for my own advertisers. This plugin allows the user to create groups of ads based on user-defined images and l …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Photo Ads
#44,123by TehJinx17 years ago
Automagically changes the link of any image added through the Wordpress image tool into a link that can be used to serve your users within any page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mega Ad
#44,658by Simon6 months ago
This plugin creates a full screen ad with an expiration date without cloaking.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
No Adblock
Up in the last 7 days:1,901#45,257by verblick14 years ago
This plugin will detect adblock users and blocking them from seeing your site content.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SmartyAds
Down in the last 7 days:28#45,316by SmartyAds12 years ago
SmartyAds easy-to-install plugin allows efficient monetization of your WordPress built website or blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CODEC Sponsored Content
#45,519by codecprime2 years ago
Premium monetizing system for quality blogs & publications (English-language websites only.) Generate revenue by displaying a widget with manually …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day