Best scholar plugins for WordPress
The most popular scholar plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Scholar Publications Fetcher leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of Kblog Metadata (10+) and Kblog Include (10+). All 4 plugins tagged “scholar” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 scholar plugins
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Scholar Publications FetcherThe most installed scholar plugin, with 200+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
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Kblog Metadata10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
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Kblog Include10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
All 4 plugins tagged “scholar”
Scholar Publications Fetcher
Up in the last 7 days:56#12,252by valsze2 months ago
Fetch, cache, customize, and display Google Scholar profiles and publications with an easy WordPress admin settings panel.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Kblog Metadata
#30,995by philliplord10 years ago
Displays bibliographic metadata both for humans and computers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kblog Include
Down in the last 7 days:1,792#43,758by philliplord12 years ago
Transcludes content from arXiv and other academic repositories.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day