Best practical plugins for WordPress

The most popular practical plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Practical Publishing Actions leads with fewer than 10 active installs. All 1 plugins tagged “practical” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.

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Top 1 practical plugins

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Practical Publishing Actions
The most installed practical plugin, with fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.

All 1 plugins tagged “practical”

Practical Publishing Actions
Up in the last 7 days:6,906#57,471
by Lance9 years ago
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Installs
<10
Rating
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Downloads
0/day