Best readonly plugins for WordPress
The most popular readonly plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Read Only Fields for Gravity Forms leads with 30+ active installs, ahead of WP Scheduled Read-Only (10+) and Offline Updater (10+). All 3 plugins tagged “readonly” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 readonly plugins
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Read Only Fields for Gravity FormsThe most installed readonly plugin, with 30+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 weeks ago.
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WP Scheduled Read-Only10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
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Offline Updater10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
All 3 plugins tagged “readonly”
Read Only Fields for Gravity Forms
Up in the last 7 days:190#23,646by Faisal Ahammad28 days ago
Adds readonly (uneditable) fields to Gravity Forms, allowing you to display information users cannot change.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
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- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Scheduled Read-Only
Up in the last 7 days:6,478#35,162by Bastien Ho4 years ago
Schedule readonly mode for your WordPress site
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Offline Updater
Down in the last 7 days:4,483#46,113by Link7 years ago
For those sites can't update online, like some read-only cloud or recover-after-restart server, now you can just check out those updating files a …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day