Best collaborative editing plugins for WordPress
The most popular collaborative editing plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Multicollab leads with 300+ active installs, ahead of Claudaborative Editing (fewer than 10) and Wave (fewer than 10). All 3 plugins tagged “collaborative editing” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 collaborative editing plugins
- 1.
MulticollabThe most installed collaborative editing plugin, with 300+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 10 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 2.
Claudaborative EditingFewer than 10 active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
WaveFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
All 3 plugins tagged “collaborative editing”
Multicollab
Down in the last 7 days:31#10,350by Multicollab3 days ago
This plugin serves the commenting feature like Google Docs within the Gutenberg Editor!
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.7(10)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Claudaborative Editing
Up in the last 7 days:10,476#55,191by Gary Pendergast1 month ago
Adds AI action controls to the Gutenberg editor for use with Claudaborative Cloud, or the Claudaborative Editing MCP server.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wave
#73,051by sund7 years ago
Wave by Codox enables teams to real-time co-edit and co-iterate posts directly in your WordPress site.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day