Best animal shelter plugins for WordPress
The most popular animal shelter plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Pets leads with 90+ active installs, ahead of PetBridge (10+) and PetMatchPro (10+). All 4 plugins tagged “animal shelter” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 animal shelter plugins
- 1.
PetsThe most installed animal shelter plugin, with 90+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 2.
PetBridge10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 day ago.
- 3.
PetMatchPro10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
- 4.Animal Shelter
Fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
All 4 plugins tagged “animal shelter”

Pets
Up in the last 7 days:65#17,317by Igor Benic4 years ago
A plugin to manage websites with pets or animal shelters.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day

PetBridge
#31,826by PetBridge1 day ago
Embed PetBridge features on your WordPress site to streamline pet adoptions, surrenders, alerts, and engagement with your community.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

PetMatchPro
#33,730by PetMatchPro11 days ago
Connect your animal shelter or rescue website to PetPoint/Petango, RescueGroups, or AnimalsFirst - and turn visitors into adopters.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Animal Shelter
Up in the last 7 days:4,426#62,199by Javier Casares3 years ago
The Animal Shelter plugin is proposed as a package of tools for animal protectors that facilitate the publication of cards, adoption, volunteering and …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day