Best digital humanities plugins for WordPress
The most popular digital humanities plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. PlacePress leads with 30+ active installs, ahead of Prospect (10+) and Rich Meta in RDFa (10+). All 3 plugins tagged “digital humanities” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 digital humanities plugins
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PlacePressThe most installed digital humanities plugin, with 30+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
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Prospect10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
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Rich Meta in RDFa10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
All 3 plugins tagged “digital humanities”
PlacePress
#24,551by Center for Public History + Digital Humanities2 months ago
An elegant mapping solution for public historians, urbanists, and other humanities researchers.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Prospect
#43,515by msnewton8 years ago
Prospect is a Digital Humanities platform for data curation, collaboration, visualization and analysis.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rich Meta in RDFa
#48,490by yoannspace5 years ago
This WordPress plugin allows users to add some Dublin Core data in RDFa within the HTML page of each post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day