Best throttle plugins for WordPress
The most popular throttle plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Limit Orders for WooCommerce leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of Bottle (100+) and Mail Queues by PBCI (30+). All 4 plugins tagged “throttle” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 throttle plugins
- 1.
Limit Orders for WooCommerceThe most installed throttle plugin, with 200+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 2.
Bottle100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.
Mail Queues by PBCI30+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
All 4 plugins tagged “throttle”
Limit Orders for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:17#11,816by Nexcess4 years ago
Automatically disable WooCommerce's checkout process after reaching a maximum number of orders.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Bottle
Up in the last 7 days:288#15,790by benrowland12 days ago
Bottle is a bot throttling plugin.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Mail Queues by PBCI
Up in the last 7 days:29#23,846by Jeffrey Schutzman13 years ago
Queue, Throttle, Send SMTP email through multiple providers. Automatic re-send when non-delivery received.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 3/day