Best dns plugins for WordPress
The most popular dns plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Simple DNS Prefetch leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of CCPA Opt-Out by CookiePro (100+) and ES Football Bypass for Cloudflare (100+). All 21 plugins tagged “dns” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 dns plugins
- 1.
Simple DNS PrefetchThe most installed dns plugin, with 200+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 2.
CCPA Opt-Out by CookiePro100+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 8 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 3.
ES Football Bypass for Cloudflare100+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 11 hours ago.
- 4.DNS Prefetch
60+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 5.DNS Manager for Cloudflare
50+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 6.
EDH Bad Bots50+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 4 months ago.
- 7.
Host.it FastSMTP20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 8.eMail Domain Check Processor for Caldera Forms
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 9.
Freenauta DNS CF10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 10.
OrioleOne Master ToolsFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
All 21 plugins tagged “dns”

Simple DNS Prefetch
Down in the last 7 days:65#12,742by andrewmoof8 years ago
Adds (or removes) DNS prefetching meta tags to your site and speeds up your page load speed.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

CCPA Opt-Out by CookiePro
Down in the last 7 days:127#14,404by CookiePro5 years ago
Customize and add a Do Not Sell button to your website to provide a transparent mechanism for website visitors to opt out of the sale of their persona …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.6(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ES Football Bypass for Cloudflare
Down in the last 7 days:692#15,728by Carrerotoday
Automatically manages Cloudflare configuration during football matches to avoid mass IP blocks affecting legitimate websites in Spain.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
DNS Prefetch
Up in the last 7 days:56#19,868by jp211211 years ago
Adds dns prefetching meta tags to your site.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DNS Manager for Cloudflare
Up in the last 7 days:12#20,223by sflwa1 year ago
Manage your Cloudflare DNS records directly from the WordPress admin panel.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

EDH Bad Bots
Up in the last 7 days:199#21,066by EncodeDotHost5 months ago
A smart WordPress plugin that automatically blocks malicious bots and crawlers that ignore your site's robots.txt file.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Host.it FastSMTP
Up in the last 7 days:1,634#27,431by Host.it1 month ago
Configurazione SMTP guidata per WordPress con test invio, verifica SPF/DKIM/DMARC e log email.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
eMail Domain Check Processor for Caldera Forms
#46,169by Martin Mattel6 years ago
Processor for Caldera Forms to check if the domain of the eMail given is most likely capable recieving eMails. Useful to aviod misusage or mistyped eM …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Freenauta DNS CF
Down in the last 7 days:7,326#46,790by Freenauta1 year ago
Manage Cloudflare DNS settings directly from WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

OrioleOne Master Tools
#54,751by OrioleOne1 month ago
WordPress utility suite for Morse, subnet, DNS, text cleaning, hash, text compare, password generation, public IP, and IP lookup tools.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Solviroa
Up in the last 7 days:4,091#55,600by Maira Foresto8 days ago
Guided email migration, setup, diagnostics and deliverability checks for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Domain Monitor by DomainMonitor.io
#59,526by domainmonitor3 months ago
Connect your WordPress site to Domain Monitor to track uptime, SSL certificate expiry, domain expiry and DNS changes from one dashboard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

DomainWarn Monitoring
Up in the last 7 days:4,950#62,032by Wigandt Technology13 days ago
Monitors availability, certificate, DNS and email of your site – and reports what is invisible from outside: outdated plugins, a stalled WP-Cron.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Notify.domains Domain Monitor
Up in the last 7 days:3,286#63,583by notifydomains1 month ago
Proactive protection for the domain your WordPress site runs on. Expiry, hijacking, and outages, in the dashboard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Certack
Up in the last 7 days:1,122#66,359by nathanchz1 month ago
Continuous SSL/TLS, DNS, and domain expiry monitoring with one-click checks, dashboard widget, and email alerts. Connects to the Certack API — see &qu …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

DamaSoft Email Security
Down in the last 7 days:716#68,402by DamaSoft1 month ago
Local recipient-domain protection for WordPress mail, WooCommerce checkout and CartFlows abandoned carts. No external web service.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

QAS Domain Checker
Down in the last 7 days:15,414#71,207by qasolutions2 months ago
A simple, multilingual domain availability checker using the modern RDAP protocol. One block, one shortcode, no setup pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MTX Email DNS Validator for Contact Form 7
#72,838by Matrixlab2 months ago
Advanced email validation for Contact Form 7 using DNS/MX records and SMTP verification to prevent invalid email submissions.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BeleGuard Domain Scanner
#73,132by beletech7620 days ago
Scans your subdomains and content links for dangling DNS records (abandoned cloud resources) an attacker could claim.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
FeJoo.ir DNS Zone Manager
#73,696by fejoo3 months ago
Manage DNS zone records (A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT) directly from the WordPress dashboard via cPanel — no API Token required.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day