Best message plugins for WordPress
The most popular message plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts leads with 30K+ active installs, ahead of Simple Membership Custom Messages (7K+) and Front End PM (4K+). All 104 plugins tagged “message” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 message plugins
- 1.Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts
The most installed message plugin, with 30K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 184 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.Simple Membership Custom Messages
7K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Front End PM4K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 220 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 4.
WPC Smart Messages for WooCommerce1K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 6 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 5.
Popup for Contact Form 7700+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 6 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 6.
Notice Bar700+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 9 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.ACF Enhanced Message Field
600+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.0.
- 8.
Comment Approved400+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 14 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 9.
Pingo Notify300+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 10.
Banner Alerts200+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 104 plugins tagged “message”
Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,046by Jack - BNFW9 days ago
Supercharge your WordPress email notifications using a WYSIWYG editor and shortcodes. Default and new notifications available. Add-ons available.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(184)
- Downloads
- 753/day
Simple Membership Custom Messages
#2,618by wp.insider2 months ago
Simple Membership Addon to customize various content protection messages.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 32/day

Front End PM
Down in the last 7 days:7#3,352by Shamim Hasan28 days ago
Front End PM is a Private Messaging system and a secure contact form to your WordPress site.This is full functioning messaging system from front end.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.8(220)
- Downloads
- 56/day

WPC Smart Messages for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:16#6,917by WPClever23 days ago
WPC Smart Messages help you display messages throughout your store through smart conditional logic settings.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Popup for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:26#7,759by aiyaz Khorajia8 years ago
This plugin will show the popup when Contact Form 7 has been submitted. You can customize popup title, message and colors from backend.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Notice Bar
Down in the last 7 days:22#7,969by WEN Solutions1 month ago
A easy plugin to show multiple notice bar in WordPress sites.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 3.6(9)
- Downloads
- 14/day
ACF Enhanced Message Field
Down in the last 7 days:19#8,428by Dreb Bitanghol10 years ago
Adds an enhanced version of the default Message field to accept PHP and certainly no wpauto().
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Comment Approved
Down in the last 7 days:22#9,320by nielsvanrenselaar8 years ago
Notify a user when their comment is approved.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.6(14)
- Downloads
- 8/day

Pingo Notify
Up in the last 7 days:42#10,248by Infixs4 days ago
Automate your WhatsApp messaging and send notifications and alerts to customers and site administrators through messaging apps.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 13/day

Banner Alerts
Up in the last 7 days:21#11,252by Valice7 months ago
Provides an easy interface for creating and displaying alerts or notices as a banner on a website
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BuddyPress Email Template Designer
Down in the last 7 days:100#12,754by Hannes Etzelstorfer6 years ago
Simply customize email templates for BuddyPress
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Big Boom Alert Bar
Down in the last 7 days:110#14,836by bigboomdesign4 years ago
Adds an alert message to your site's front end, anywhere within the site layout
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Custom Login Error Message
Up in the last 7 days:140#15,438by Muhammad Umer10 years ago
This plugin shows a custom error message of your choice to users when they enter invalid username or password.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Cookie Message
Down in the last 7 days:97#16,524by Jenst11 years ago
EU cookie law message at the bottom of the screen.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin User Message
Down in the last 7 days:121#16,710by Jonathan Bardo11 years ago
Add message to users of your site. Choose wheter they can dismiss it or not.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Zedna Custom Dashboard Messages
Up in the last 7 days:39#16,720by Radek Mezulanik5 years ago
Allow admin to write messages on user dashboard.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.8(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SMS-Fly
Down in the last 7 days:222#17,514by smsfly2 years ago
Sending SMS messages using the "SMS-fly" service
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Zip Code Redirect
Down in the last 7 days:133#17,866by Paul Glover1 year ago
Zip Code Redirect Will Check A Users Zip Code Or Post Code And Redirect The User To A Pre-determined URL Or Display A Useful Message.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

DX Out of Date
Up in the last 7 days:73#18,086by Mario Peshev15 days ago
Display a notification box on the single view of your outdated posts, given a set amount of time (configurable).
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
You Have a New (BuddyPress) Message
Down in the last 7 days:5#18,888by Markus Echterhoff7 years ago
Notify users about new BuddyPress messages (widget & shortcode)
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Juiz Outdated Post Message
Up in the last 7 days:6#18,914by Geoffrey1 year ago
This plugin adds a message before or after your post content when this post is outdated
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Site Notices WP
Down in the last 7 days:69#19,375by Alsvin Tech1 year ago
Show notices, alert, popup, info messages on your WordPress site easily. Choose where to display notice on any single page/post/product or on complete …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Private Comment
Down in the last 7 days:215#19,853by Ederson Peka11 days ago
Allow commenters to choose restrict their comments exhibition only to site owners
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Brief Message
Down in the last 7 days:251#20,159by ZIPANG2 months ago
Add a widget to display a short sentence.It will be displayed in the form of Twitter.Like the theme "P2", logged-in users can post from the front end.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyProfileMessageUX Free
Down in the last 7 days:224#21,136by shanebp6 months ago
This BuddyPress plugin replaces the functionality for the Public Message and Private Message buttons on profile pages.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.0(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ACW Custom Messages for Password Protected Pages
Up in the last 7 days:104#22,762by Lorenzo Fracassi2 months ago
Customize the message displayed on password protected content, globally or with a different message for each page or post.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Private Messages for Friends Only
Down in the last 7 days:54#25,046by r-a-y16 years ago
This plugin only allows friends and site administrators to send private messages on your BuddyPress site.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 3/day

WPTelMessage
Up in the last 7 days:6#26,246by hrcode1 year ago
The WPTelMessage plugin will help you quickly receive messages sent from the contact form on your website or from the WooCommerce plugin in Telegram.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Sticker
Down in the last 7 days:58#26,402by aghajoon10 years ago
BuddyPress stickers Allow Users to add stickers in activity posts and message by clicking on icons
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.6(10)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Text Local SMS
#27,374by Alobaidi10 years ago
Best SMS plugin for WordPress, send SMS in WordPress easily, all countries support.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Welcome Messages
#27,492by Josh15 years ago
This plugin will allow you to add a custom welcome message to your login/register screens. It will also allow you to add a separate custom message fo …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Custom Cookie Message
Down in the last 7 days:186#28,122by johansylvan6 years ago
License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Custom Cookie Message compatible with multilanguages and multisites.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Toast Popup Notification News Alert
Up in the last 7 days:404#28,618by Apsara Aruna1 year ago
This is popup simple message on you all pages or specific page.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
annouoncement
#29,430by mrsajith15 years ago
Do you wanna inform any important news or message to your readers ? You can use this plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SMS CLUB Messages
Up in the last 7 days:81#29,782by Sms Club5 years ago
Send SMS all over the world from your website
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dashboard Message
Down in the last 7 days:520#30,022by Nicolas Bouliane16 years ago
Displays a custom message on the dashboard with full HTML/PHP/JavaScript support. Useful for administrator who have clients as users.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP247 Extension Notification Client
Up in the last 7 days:106#30,026by wescleveland9 years ago
Provides the ability for WordPress extension developers to send notification messages to their users
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SMS Gateway Center
#30,591by smsgatewaycenter2 months ago
You need to be a registered member of www.smsgatewaycenter.com. Install this simple plugin and start sending bulk SMS. This gateway supports India and …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Get Notified
#30,645by kjbenk10 years ago
Get Notified is a simple to use notification plugin that notifies you of certain WordPress events.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bootstrap Devnia PM based on Cartpauj-PM wordpress
Up in the last 7 days:9,356#33,965by waheeds12 years ago
Easily add Private Messaging for your users to your WordPress site with Cartpauj PM (Private Messages).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Rusty Top Bar
#34,325by RustyBadRobot6 years ago
A simple, easy to use notifcation bar for your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Yahoo Status
#35,152by As24715 years ago
Display your Yahoo Status and your Yahoo Status Message on the widget
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Contact Form in Product Tab WooCommerce by Themeqx.com
Up in the last 7 days:9,984#36,579by themeqx8 years ago
Increase your sales by Contact Form Product Tab WooCommerce. Your buyer can send contact message directly from your product page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Update Message
#36,723by Jenst17 years ago
Add a short note about the latest changes in the current post or page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Inquiries
#37,328by Aristo Rinjuang5 years ago
A simple contact form plugin that record inquiries.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

FooterMate
Up in the last 7 days:7,884#38,331by Tayyab Hassan1 year ago
Add a custom footer message to your WordPress site. Lightweight and easy to use.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day

Bonaire
Up in the last 7 days:8,788#39,026by Demis Patti19 days ago
Reply to Contact Form 7 messages stored by Flamingo directly from your WordPress dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Popup Message
Down in the last 7 days:1,627#39,533by sohelamin11 years ago
A wordpress plugin which is simply allow you to Display popup flash message after login.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Tour
Down in the last 7 days:2,343#39,893by jurgennn8511 years ago
Create a WordPress Tour with handy dandy pop ups
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SwiftNotify
Up in the last 7 days:5,422#40,663by Foysal Ahmad1 year ago
Send instant messages to your WooCommerce customers and store admin when orders are placed or updated — powered by the SwiftNotify API.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day