Best commercial plugins for WordPress
The most popular commercial plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Simple ads.txt leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of ads.txt for WordPress (80+) and SimSage Search Plugin (fewer than 10). All 6 plugins tagged “commercial” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 commercial plugins
- 1.Simple ads.txt
The most installed commercial plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 2.
ads.txt for WordPress80+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 3.
SimSage Search PluginFewer than 10 active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
All 6 plugins tagged “commercial”
Simple ads.txt
Up in the last 7 days:84#5,277by Bensword8 years ago
Simple ads.txt integration for your WordPress
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 31/day

ads.txt for WordPress
Up in the last 7 days:109#17,779by dpoakaspine9 years ago
easy ads.txt integration for your WordPress
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

SimSage Search Plugin
Down in the last 7 days:5,170#72,619by Rock de Vocht4 years ago
SimSage is a powerful semantic search engine with operator passback support. SimSage enables you to construct
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day