Best front matter plugins for WordPress

The most popular front matter plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Ultimate Markdown leads with 2K+ active installs. All 1 plugins tagged “front matter” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.

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Top 1 front matter plugins

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Ultimate Markdown
The most installed front matter plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 10 reviews, updated 1 month ago.

All 1 plugins tagged “front matter”

Ultimate Markdown
Down in the last 7 days:8#4,878
by DAEXT2 months ago
Generate articles from a Markdown file, bulk import and export Markdown documents, create Markdown documents from an editor, and more.
Installs
2K+
Rating
4.0(10)
Downloads
26/day