Best hosted plugins for WordPress
The most popular hosted plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. SSLCommerz Payment Gateway leads with 2K+ active installs, ahead of Stream to Slack (20+) and Power Box (10+). All 7 plugins tagged “hosted” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 hosted plugins
- 1.
SSLCommerz Payment GatewayThe most installed hosted plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.
Stream to Slack20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 3.Power Box
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 4.Kernel Booking
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 5.
Stream to Papertrail10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
All 7 plugins tagged “hosted”

SSLCommerz Payment Gateway
Up in the last 7 days:8#4,878by SSLCommerz1 year ago
Prerequisites
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Stream to Slack
Down in the last 7 days:245#27,032by Nathan Monk11 years ago
Send your Stream records to Slack.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Power Box
#36,981by Bimal Poudel10 years ago
Displays a Widget Box with user configured custom content.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kernel Booking
Down in the last 7 days:156#40,956by Kernel Data Ltd4 years ago
Online bookings made easy, for hotels, camping, glamping and more. Quickly and easily embed your Kernel Booking account into any WordPress website
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Stream to Papertrail
Down in the last 7 days:1,015#46,333by Japh11 years ago
Send your Stream records to Papertrail for safe-keeping.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day