Best monthly plugins for WordPress
The most popular monthly plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Date Pagination leads with 70+ active installs, ahead of Archivist (20+) and Gravity Forms Periodic Notification E-Mails (20+). All 10 plugins tagged “monthly” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 6 monthly plugins
- 1.
Date PaginationThe most installed monthly plugin, with 70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 2.
Archivist20+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 3.Gravity Forms Periodic Notification E-Mails
20+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 4.Spice Archive Page
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 5.Category Monthly Archives
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 6.Monthly Data Sheets
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
All 10 plugins tagged “monthly”

Date Pagination
Up in the last 7 days:133#18,278by keesiemeijer6 years ago
Paginate your posts by year, month or day.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Archivist
Down in the last 7 days:4#26,948by Ben Huson5 years ago
Gives you a few extra function for the archives widget including limiting the amount of archives to show and wether you want to display yearly, monthl …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Gravity Forms Periodic Notification E-Mails
Down in the last 7 days:603#27,896by weptile12 years ago
Sends periodic e-mails for Gravity Forms entries created within the period. Daily, weekly, monthly updates instead of 1 e-mail per form entry.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Spice Archive Page
Down in the last 7 days:124#34,401by a.ankit8 years ago
Plugin allows you to display yearly, monthly and daily archives in pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Monthly Archives
#37,932by Hiroshi Sawai11 years ago
This Widget display category monthly archives links on category page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Monthly Data Sheets
Down in the last 7 days:9,387#48,104by Reenu10 years ago
Monthly Data Sheets plugin allows you to create data sheets for each month with custom rows and columns
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day