Best posts per page plugins for WordPress
The most popular posts per page plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Posts/Page leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of Powerful Posts Per Page (PPPP) (1K+) and Custom Posts Per Page (800+). All 7 plugins tagged “posts per page” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 7 posts per page plugins
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Advanced Posts/PageThe most installed posts per page plugin, with 3K+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
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Powerful Posts Per Page (PPPP)1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
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Custom Posts Per Page800+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 12 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
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Custom Posts Per Page Reloaded600+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
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Simple Custom Posts per Page40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4.
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Admin Per Page Limits20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.1.
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Posts Per Page Customizer10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
All 7 plugins tagged “posts per page”
Advanced Posts/Page
Down in the last 7 days:19#3,883by chrisguitarguy14 years ago
Fine grained control of how many of your posts appear on each of the various WordPress archive pages.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Powerful Posts Per Page (PPPP)
Down in the last 7 days:16#6,611by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)7 years ago
Posts per page for custom post types and taxonomies.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 9/day
Custom Posts Per Page
Down in the last 7 days:2#7,318by Jeremy Felt12 years ago
Custom Posts Per Page provides a settings page in your WordPress admin that allows you to specify how many posts are displayed for different views.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.8(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Custom Posts Per Page Reloaded
Down in the last 7 days:25#8,143by WPZOOM3 months ago
Set how many posts are displayed per page for each view type — home, categories, tags, authors, archives, search, and custom post types.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day
Simple Custom Posts per Page
Down in the last 7 days:655#22,975by Jabawack14 years ago
This plugin allows to configure the number of posts displayed for every custom post registered.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Per Page Limits
Up in the last 7 days:143#26,203by Scott Reilly17 years ago
Control the number of posts per page, pages per page, and comments per page that appear in the admin listings of posts, pages, and comments.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Posts Per Page Customizer
Down in the last 7 days:102#29,196by FRESHFACE11 years ago
Powerful tool to tweak your existing loops. Set posts per page, filter posts, order them, hide them, apply Conditional Logic, etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day