Best publish plugins for WordPress
The most popular publish plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Publish To Apple News leads with 4K+ active installs, ahead of Save with keyboard (3K+) and Requirements Checklist (800+). All 85 plugins tagged “publish” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 publish plugins
- 1.
Publish To Apple NewsThe most installed publish plugin, with 4K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 25 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 2.
Save with keyboard3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 31 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
- 3.
Requirements Checklist800+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 12 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 4.
WP Discord Post Plus600+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 11 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 5.Publish View
500+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 6.Save and Close
400+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 13 reviews, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 7.
Update from Bottom300+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 8.
Auto Publish Drafts200+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 9.Micropub
200+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 1 week ago.
- 10.
Bulk Post Status Update200+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 months ago.
All 85 plugins tagged “publish”

Publish To Apple News
Down in the last 7 days:13#3,340by Alley17 days ago
Enables journalistic outlets already approved by Apple News to send content directly to the app.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 3.8(25)
- Downloads
- 644/day

Save with keyboard
Down in the last 7 days:2#3,829by Mattia Trapani8 years ago
Save everything in the most natural way by pressing Ctrl+S (or Cmd+S on Mac).
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(31)
- Downloads
- 15/day

Requirements Checklist
Down in the last 7 days:18#7,304by dauidus11 years ago
Allows admins to require content to be entered before a page/post can be published.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.8(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP Discord Post Plus
Down in the last 7 days:20#8,059by Md Yakub Mizan5 months ago
WP Discord Post Plus integrates with WordPress and WooCommerce (if installed) to send your new post and orders to discord channels.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Publish View
Down in the last 7 days:3#8,804by launchinteractive9 years ago
Adds a button so you can save Publish or save Draft and view in one step.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Save and Close
Down in the last 7 days:35#9,399by lightbulbdigital13 years ago
Adds a Save and Close button to the admin post edit screen which allows you to return to the post listing page after editing.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Update from Bottom
Down in the last 7 days:40#10,203by urre10 years ago
Shows two extra buttons (Scroll to top and Publish/Update) in the bottom of the screen when user scrolls near bottom.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Auto Publish Drafts
Up in the last 7 days:13#11,146by Wong Siong Kiat4 years ago
Automatically publish drafts every 5 minutes silently in the background.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Micropub
Down in the last 7 days:23#11,291by IndieWeb13 days ago
Allows you to publish to your site using Micropub clients.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Bulk Post Status Update
#12,285by Chetan Vaghela4 months ago
Automatically change the status of WordPress posts and custom post types to Draft or Publish using bulk actions.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Save & Go
Up in the last 7 days:130#12,588by Alisha Thomas5 days ago
A modern "2-in-1" save button for the classic AND block editor: save the post and instantly go to your next action.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Overwrite Author Name
Down in the last 7 days:43#13,036by Justin Fletcher2 years ago
Overwrite Author to a consistent name when publishing a post.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Git it Write
Up in the last 7 days:93#13,452by vaakash1 month ago
Publish markdown files present in a GitHub repository as posts to WordPress automatically
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(7)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Force Post Category Selection
Up in the last 7 days:30#13,908by Jatinder Pal Singh11 years ago
This is simple plugin which forces the users to select atleast one category from the list while publishing a new post.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.8(10)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Publish Confirm Message
Down in the last 7 days:10#14,392by Arul Prasad J10 months ago
An extra confirmation dialog for the Publish button to help prevent accidental publishing.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Force Post Title
Down in the last 7 days:63#15,031by Jatinder Pal Singh11 years ago
This is simple plugin which forces the users to write POST title in Add New Post page.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Stealth Update
Down in the last 7 days:37#16,377by Scott Reilly10 years ago
Adds the ability to update a post without having WordPress automatically update the post's post_modified timestamp.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Multi Site Post Publisher
Up in the last 7 days:129#17,654by WP Plugin Pilot1 month ago
Publish posts to multiple remote WordPress websites from a single dashboard using application passwords. Simple, secure, and efficient.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Confirm Publishing Actions
Down in the last 7 days:389#18,550by Peter J. Herrel11 years ago
Prompts a user to click a confirm button whenever he tries to submit, publish, update, schedule or delete a post.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Print API
Down in the last 7 days:236#18,702by Print API5 years ago
Verkoop je eigen boek of ontwerp met print-on-demand! Plaats eenvoudig producten uit je Print API account op je site met deze plugin.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Init Pulse For Discord
Up in the last 7 days:84#18,760by Init HTML1 month ago
Send WordPress post notifications to Discord via webhooks — role mentions, custom post types, and rich embeds.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Article Forge
Down in the last 7 days:76#20,081by borgboy13 years ago
The Article Forge WP plugin provides a conducive environment for the writing and publishing of hierarchical prose.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Silent Publish
Down in the last 7 days:121#20,082by Scott Reilly6 years ago
Adds the ability to publish a post without triggering pingbacks, trackbacks, or notifying update services.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Post Publish Email Notifier
#20,838by Zendesignjp5 months ago
When you "post", you can easily notify the registered email address via BCC.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 5/day

Published By
Down in the last 7 days:323#20,923by Scott Reilly8 years ago
Track which user actually published a post, separate from who created the post. Display that info as a column in admin post listings.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
RA
Down in the last 7 days:1,065#22,234by skuramoto11 years ago
The status of the post exhibited directly from new post is compulsorily changed into "private".
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
force-publish-schedule
Up in the last 7 days:88#23,360by saturngod16 years ago
Sometime we want to publish schedule post. We make a post like event, we need to publish that post.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
PaceQuill Post Scheduler
Down in the last 7 days:535#23,553by shahidirfan10027 days ago
Publish eligible posts and recycle older content at your chosen intervals, with publishing rules and a local activity log.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Issuu Viewer
#23,943by jocken15 years ago
Uses the api from www.issuu.com to display your files
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Require Post Tags
#24,153by Josh Hartman9 years ago
Require users to add at least one post tag before saving a draft, updating a post, or publishing a post. This applies to normal posts and may not be …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
MassPost
Up in the last 7 days:5#24,510by Unioney9 months ago
Publish once, distribute everywhere. MassPost securely pushes WordPress posts, all formats, images, categories etc to multiple sites.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Featured Image Reminder
Up in the last 7 days:129#24,866by Aaron Hockley10 years ago
Featured Image Reminder will display a confirmation dialog box if you press the Publish button and the post doesn't have a featured image.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
OneClickPublish
Up in the last 7 days:123#27,305by yantrakaar13 years ago
This is a very basic plugin to simple toggle the status of your posts between publish and post
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Quick Cache Clear for Publisher
#27,795by ericjuden14 years ago
Allows anyone with publish permissions to clear the cache in Quick Cache
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Presswell Publication Schedule
Down in the last 7 days:270#29,695by Presswell4 days ago
Simple and precise post publishing control for WordPress based on day of the week and time of day.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CR Post to Ping.fm
Down in the last 7 days:77#30,905by Arief Bayu Purwanto15 years ago
NEW FEATURE IN THIS RELEASE
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Leenkat Editorial Tracker
#31,454by Fajr Yassin1 month ago
Track who actually publishes and edits WordPress content, independently from the assigned post author.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Relative Site URL on Content Save
#32,064by Chris Bratlien16 years ago
Allows you to publish content during dev phase without having to go back and fix your content's static URLs when you switch to the production URL …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Peak Publisher
Up in the last 7 days:4,877#32,828by Helmut Wandl15 days ago
One place for all your plugins: publish to wordpress.org without SVN, self‑host the rest, and serve updates — all inside WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
New Post Automatic XML Backup by Email
Up in the last 7 days:714#33,900by Xosen12 years ago
When a post is published, a backup email is send to the admin with the post content in XML format.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Additional Content
Up in the last 7 days:8,073#36,584by keesiemeijer6 years ago
Display additional content before or after post content in single post pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DirectEdit
Up in the last 7 days:3,230#38,375by Carlo Roosen12 years ago
Edit your website directly in the frontend.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Quick Save
Up in the last 7 days:1,367#40,893by Stev Forster11 years ago
Press the ALT key to update posts and pages instead of clicking the Update button all the time.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Automatic Page Publish / Expire
#43,161by Harpinder15 years ago
It lets user adds start and end date of a page for publishing and after end date has been passed, page's status is automatic marked as draft.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Email Author On Publish
Up in the last 7 days:678#43,321by Coen Jacobs14 years ago
Emails author when pending post is published.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Social Media Auto Post and Scheduling contents
Down in the last 7 days:1,149#43,746by Raef Ghribi7 years ago
This plugin allows you to publish old posts from your website or just the latests and newests ones. Don't let your posts die after just a single …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Limit Revision Publishing
#44,838by Paul Ryan6 months ago
Limit Revision Publishing restricts edits made by users without the publish_{post_type} capability.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Admin Bar Publish
Down in the last 7 days:965#44,877by Elio Rivero2 years ago
Extends Admin Bar by allowing to publish or draft from the front end.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

wp2d Auto Post
Down in the last 7 days:2,798#45,336by korchiy5 years ago
Auto-posting the announces of publishing posts to the Discord channel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
[CR]PostWarning
Down in the last 7 days:10,494#46,015by Arief Bayu Purwanto16 years ago
help you avoid a situation where you publish post but forgot to set title / tags / categories / faetured images / etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day