Best bibtex plugins for WordPress
The most popular bibtex plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. teachPress leads with 2K+ active installs, ahead of Academic Blogger's Toolkit (300+) and WebKew WP References and Citations (10+). All 7 plugins tagged “bibtex” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 7 bibtex plugins
- 1.
teachPressThe most installed bibtex plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 25 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
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.
- 3.
WebKew WP References and Citations10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 days ago.
- 4.Borges Bibliography Builder
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 day ago.
- 5.bib3html
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1.
- 6.wpCiteULike
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
- 7.academa
Fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
All 7 plugins tagged “bibtex”

teachPress
Down in the last 7 days:19#4,399by winkm897 months ago
Manage your publications with teachPress
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(25)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Academic Blogger's Toolkit
Up in the last 7 days:14#10,509by dsifford7 years ago
A plugin extending the functionality of Wordpress for academic blogging.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.3(28)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WebKew WP References and Citations
Down in the last 7 days:604#34,261by Peshmerge Morad4 days ago
A WordPress plugin that automatically generates a bibliography from citations added to a WP post/page/custom post type.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Borges Bibliography Builder
Up in the last 7 days:13,124#37,124by Dan Knauss1 day ago
Create accessible, structured bibliographies from DOI, PubMed, BibTeX, RIS, CSL-JSON, free text, and manual entries — with RIS export.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 34/day
bib3html
#43,185bib3html15 years ago
bib3html is a refined fork from bib2html written by tango. It enables to add bibtex entries formatted as HTML in wordpress pages and posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
wpCiteULike
Down in the last 7 days:10,518#46,407by mattfunk15 years ago
wpciteulike enables to add a bibliography maintained with CiteULike formatted as HTML to wordpress pages and posts. The input data is the bibtex meta …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
academa
#64,038by Ankit Gupta8 years ago
Plugin to add a bibtex-based publication post type
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day