Best messages plugins for WordPress
The most popular messages plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. HivePress Messages leads with 7K+ active installs, ahead of Contact Form 7 Translate Messages Extension (1K+) and WPC Smart Messages for WooCommerce (1K+). All 48 plugins tagged “messages” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 messages plugins
- 1.
HivePress MessagesThe most installed messages plugin, with 7K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 2.
Contact Form 7 Translate Messages Extension1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 3.
WPC Smart Messages for WooCommerce1K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 6 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 4.
BuddyPress Default Data300+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 22 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 5.
Site Announcements300+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 6.
BuddyPress Message Attachment200+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 11 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 7.
Advanced Notifications100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 3 months ago.
- 8.
bbPress Messages100+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 11 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 9.
BuddyPress Messaging Control60+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 10.
BuddyPress Restrict Messages60+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
All 48 plugins tagged “messages”
HivePress Messages
Down in the last 7 days:6#2,560by HivePress16 days ago
Allow users to send private messages.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 96/day
Contact Form 7 Translate Messages Extension
Down in the last 7 days:9#6,846by straint7 years ago
Translate default Contact Form 7 messages without changing WordPress profile language.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 12/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
BuddyPress Default Data
Down in the last 7 days:13#10,275by Slava Abakumov1 year ago
Plugin will create lots of users, messages, friends connections, groups, topics, activity items, profile data - useful for testing purpose.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.9(22)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Site Announcements
Up in the last 7 days:16#10,408by Edward7 years ago
Site Announcements allows you to broadcast site-wide messages to your visitors, as well as set custom parameters for the messages, such as the backgro …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
BuddyPress Message Attachment
Down in the last 7 days:66#12,173by ckchaudhary1 year ago
Send attachments with private messages in BuddyPress!
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.3(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Advanced Notifications
Down in the last 7 days:20#13,420by Yehi3 months ago
Advanced Notifications allows you to create beautiful custom notifications that appear on pages or posts of your choice.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbPress Messages
Down in the last 7 days:87#13,963by DevriX9 years ago
bbPress Messages - Simple yet powerful private messaging system tailored for bbPress.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
BuddyPress Messaging Control
Down in the last 7 days:159#19,614by Venutius2 years ago
This plugin is a Swiss Army Knife for messaging, It allows the site admin to place restrictions on public and private messages including general rules …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Restrict Messages
Down in the last 7 days:184#19,955by Venutius2 years ago
This plugin allows the site admin to restrict who can send private messages or to enable the users to choose themselves.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Announcement Bar
Up in the last 7 days:16#21,387by Amzil Ayoub1 year ago
Easy Announcement Bar plugin adds a customizable, scrolling announcement bar to your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Conditional Cart Messages for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:807#22,814by YourPlugins3 days ago
Show cart messages or notices in your WooCommerce cart by using conditional rules! Made with love by yourplugins.com
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Buddypress Messages Spam Blocker
Down in the last 7 days:59#23,242by quan_flo10 years ago
This plugin will block mass mailing for the buddypress messaging system
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
wp_mail Cyrillic
#27,241by Sergey Biryukov16 years ago
Allows to receive e-mail messages in character sets different from the blog charset.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Conditional Content
#29,862by extremeidea6 years ago
Looking for a tool for adding sticky content on your WordPress site pages/posts?
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sewn In Notifications
Down in the last 7 days:493#30,637by Jupitercow11 years ago
A centralized, application notification center for front end users.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Martto Friendly Reactions
#31,505by paradola6 days ago
Add a lightweight clap button with optional messages, logs, statistics, shortcode placement, and support for public custom post types.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Unique Comments
Down in the last 7 days:26#31,823by Sergey Biryukov16 years ago
Checks via Google Search if the comment being left is a common spam comment.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Emergency Alerts
Up in the last 7 days:650#33,059by WP Maintainer6 years ago
Create emergency alerts for your website. Inspired by the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, but usable for all sorts of messaging that you need to get …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- 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
Message to Author
Up in the last 7 days:1,268#37,578by Pathu Sutariya4 years ago
Message to Author allows users to message to the author of the post, products, page or any custom posts. Which can be useful to give feedback about pa …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Notify
#38,629by Midhun Devasia10 years ago
WP-Notify is a notification plugin, this will help you to notify or alert informations about latest posts/system maintenance time etc...
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Push Нотификации
Up in the last 7 days:8,011#39,601by emrysforge10 years ago
Push Нотификации для Wordpress. Присылает сообщения на рабочий стол ПК или мобильный
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Autonotify For Woocommerce
Down in the last 7 days:4,826#42,082by Sourei1 year ago
Autonotify for WooCommerce is a plugin that seamlessly integrates WooCommerce with the Autonotify platform, enabling automated WhatsApp message notifi …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Notices
#42,386by Lee Hodson (VR51)10 years ago
Display notice messages to visitors, admin users, editors, contributors or anonymous readers. Notices can last forever, display between specific dates …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Inbox Widget
Up in the last 7 days:2,350#42,594by David Carson15 years ago
Adds a widget option showing the three most recent private messages to logged in users of a BuddyPress powered website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
My Simple Feedback
Up in the last 7 days:4,000#43,613by Pavel8 years ago
The plugin
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Digital Board
#44,000by Roi Dayan6 years ago
Digital board for lobbies for displaying messages and ads to tenants and guests.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
EP Admin Messages
#44,271by Pär Thernström13 years ago
Show messages in WP Admin. Different messages can be shown at different places, for different people.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SmokeSignal
Up in the last 7 days:1,969#45,534by .dan9 years ago
Send internal messages between registered users in admin section.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Buddypress Mass Messaging
#45,575by jeremyltn15 years ago
This plugin allows you to send individual messages to all Buddypress users.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Push Notifications Lite
Down in the last 7 days:2,295#48,433by emrysforge10 years ago
Push Notifications plugin for WordPress. Allow to send Push Notifications to authorized and anonymous users of your Wordpress site
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Automações de Mensagens via MelhorZap for WooCommerce
#50,674by Lobo WP2 months ago
Easily create automated message flows for your WooCommerce store using the MelhorZap API. Engage your customers instantly!
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
پیام هوشمند
Up in the last 7 days:16,253#56,576by merajhadad1 month ago
پیامهای هوشمند زیبا، سبک و قابل تنظیم را در وبسایت وردپرس خود با پیامهای زمانبندی شده یا دائمی، حالتهای تاریک/روشن، جستجوی پیام و مدیریت انعطافپ …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sparki
#61,706by sparkiapp4 years ago
Use Sparki to manage your communication for open houses without answering your phone. This plugin helps you to connect to Sparki.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
User Mass Messaging
Up in the last 7 days:7,475#61,784by Mohammad Imran1 year ago
User Mass Messaging is a WordPress plugin that allows users to send bulk messages to their friends directly from their profile connection tab.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SiteMessages
Down in the last 7 days:13,176#67,296by arcsprd3 years ago
Show Messages based on dates
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Widget Citation
#67,546by Andre Brum5 years ago
It allows you to offer your users famous quotes and even include your own quotes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MangoFp
#67,619by andresjarviste5 years ago
Manage Contact Form 7 messages directly in WordPress like leads in the CRM system.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Moreconvert Message Hub
#67,860by Moreconvert Team1 month ago
A powerful in-app notification & messaging system. Engage users with real-time notifications, customizable message centers and seamless integrations.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pineapple Staff Messenger
Up in the last 7 days:3,148#69,079by pineappledesigncomhk2 months ago
Send simple private messages between WordPress administrators directly from the dashboard.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Little Message Lite
Down in the last 7 days:16,596#70,459by codigoed1 year ago
Lightweight contact form with floating button, email alerts, anti-spam, and simple setup. Ideal for small sites.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Isibia Dashboard Messages
Down in the last 7 days:13,389#70,989by isibia3 years ago
Isibia Dashboard Messages - leave messages in the website control panel for all users.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day