Best pro plugins for WordPress
The most popular pro plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Menu Icons leads with 70+ active installs, ahead of Payment Form for PayPal Pro (20+) and PayPal Pro Payflow for Woo (20+). All 10 plugins tagged “Pro” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 7 pro plugins
- 1.
Advanced Menu IconsThe most installed pro plugin, with 70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 2.
Payment Form for PayPal Pro20+ active installs. Rated 2.7 from 7 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
PayPal Pro Payflow for Woo20+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 4.adBlock Alerter
10+ active installs. Rated 3.3 from 9 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 5.
RCP VAT10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 6.Ad Blocking Alert
10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 7.Custom X Pro Elements by Hexio
Fewer than 10 active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
All 10 plugins tagged “Pro”

Advanced Menu Icons
Up in the last 7 days:30#18,938by recorp2 years ago
Add custom SVG or image icons to WordPress menus. Customize icon size, position, color, and margins. Loads only used icons, optimizing site speed and …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Payment Form for PayPal Pro
Up in the last 7 days:328#25,936by codepeople10 months ago
Payment Form for PayPal Pro for accepting credit cards directly into your website without navigating to a PayPal page.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 2.7(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

PayPal Pro Payflow for Woo
Down in the last 7 days:22#26,922by wpremiumdev10 years ago
PayPal Pro Payflow for WooCommerce. Develop by Official PayPal Partner.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
adBlock Alerter
Up in the last 7 days:11,227#36,443by SuperWebDev12 years ago
Detects if a user is using adBlock, adBlock Plus or any other software that might be disabling ads on your website and prompts them to disable it.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day

RCP VAT
Up in the last 7 days:7,814#40,122by termel8 years ago
VAT management in Stripe for Restrict Content Pro plugin. Sell inside EU respecting the rules.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ad Blocking Alert
Down in the last 7 days:3,915#45,437by Dean Williams10 years ago
Detects if your visitor is using ad blocking plugins such as AdBlock, and if so will popup a message asking the visitor to disable or add an exception …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom X Pro Elements by Hexio
Down in the last 7 days:6,317#67,095by Morten Ricki Rasmussen6 years ago
Custom X Pro Elements is a package of custom elements to use with Themeco's X Pro theme
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day