Best validation plugins for WordPress
The most popular validation plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Contact Form 7 Email Validation leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of UK Address Postcode Validation (700+) and Comment Validation (700+). All 79 plugins tagged “validation” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 validation plugins
- 1.Contact Form 7 Email Validation
The most installed validation plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 3.3 from 10 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 2.UK Address Postcode Validation
700+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 3.Comment Validation
700+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
- 4.Reject Urls And Emails In Textarea For (Gravity Forms)
700+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 5.
Validated500+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 6.
Real Time Validation For Gravity Forms500+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 1 week ago.
- 7.
Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7200+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 8.
Advanced Custom Fields100+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 22 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 9.
WYSIWYG Character Limit for ACF100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.Byteplant Phone Validator
100+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
All 79 plugins tagged “validation”
Contact Form 7 Email Validation
Up in the last 7 days:26#6,295by Clarion Technologies5 years ago
Contact Form 7 Email Validation plugin adds an extended validation to verify domain in email address for email fields of Contact Form 7 plugin.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.3(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day
UK Address Postcode Validation
Down in the last 7 days:16#7,720by Ideal Postcodes16 days ago
Ideal Postcodes UK address validation and postcode lookup extension for WooCommerce
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 33/day
Comment Validation
Down in the last 7 days:53#7,754by joern.zaefferer16 years ago
This plugin adds client-side validation to the Wordpress comment form, using the jQuery validation plugin.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Reject Urls And Emails In Textarea For (Gravity Forms)
Up in the last 7 days:2#7,882by InternalError50310 years ago
Prevent URLS & Emails in gravity forms textarea fields.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Validated
Up in the last 7 days:32#8,764by Allan Collins7 years ago
This plugin will allow you to check your pages/posts HTML against the W3C Validator.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Real Time Validation For Gravity Forms
Down in the last 7 days:10#8,971by PluginsCafe10 days ago
Instant, inline validation for Gravity Forms. Users see errors while filling the form, including Repeater fields and custom regular expressions.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 49/day

Email Validation Filter for Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:52#11,779by asamaruk1 year ago
Added mail validation function to Contact Form 7. Protected by rejection filter, RFC filter, and DNS filter.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:72#13,878by doublesharp11 years ago
The Validated Field add-on for Advanced Custom Fields provides input masking and server-side validation of other field types.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(22)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WYSIWYG Character Limit for ACF
Up in the last 7 days:50#15,162by Code and core2 months ago
ACF WYSIWYG Character Limit adds max-character controls to ACF editors, improving content quality, and editorial standards across WordPress.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Byteplant Phone Validator
Up in the last 7 days:82#15,220by byteplant2 months ago
With the Byteplant Phone Validator plugin you can easily verify if a phone number is really valid and callable (https://www.byteplant.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Form Validation Action Addon for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:177#15,911by andresitorresm4 months ago
Add a custom validation action for Forms to your Elementor installation to run server-side validation for your form fields.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Byteplant Email Validator
Up in the last 7 days:591#16,533by byteplant2 months ago
With the Byteplant Email Validator plugin you can easily verify with a real-time live check if an email address really exists and is valid (https://ww …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.8(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Address Validator for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:201#16,863by byteplant2 months ago
Address Validator for WooCommerce automatically validates and corrects billing and shipping addresses for 240+ countries world-wide (https://www.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 3.4(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day

KSA National Address Validator
Up in the last 7 days:183#16,926by otoglobal7 months ago
Validates KSA National Addresses during WooCommerce checkout using the OTO API.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Block Accessibility Checks
Up in the last 7 days:82#17,020by Troy Chaplin2 months ago
Prevent WCAG accessibility errors in your content with real-time validation for blocks, meta fields, and document structure.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 104/day

comment validation
Down in the last 7 days:53#17,816by calliko5 months ago
Validation Plugin comments. The plugin is based on js-script jquery.validate.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Spark GF Failed Submissions
Up in the last 7 days:28#18,411by Mark Parnell3 months ago
Track failed form submissions and get notified when they reach a customisable threshold. Requires Gravity Forms.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

ads.txt Guru Connect
Up in the last 7 days:172#18,448by ads.txt Guru2 months ago
ads.txt Guru is a revolutionary tool to eliminate the burden of maintaining website ads.txt files!
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
RSS Feed Checker
Down in the last 7 days:20#19,580by shake1086114 years ago
This widget will submit your wordpress RSS feed to feedvalidator.org, and check the results to verify your feed is valid.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
W3C validation auto check
Down in the last 7 days:96#19,791by tammax14 years ago
Automatically checks the validity of the page with the service provided by the site http://validator.w3.org/
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Required Checkbox Validation for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:161#20,136by Bilal1 month ago
Make Elementor Pro checkbox fields required. Blocks submission until at least one checkbox is selected, with client-side and server-side validation.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mailgun Email Validator
#20,809by Jesin A9 years ago
Kick spam with a highly advanced email validation in comment forms, user registration and contact forms using Mailgun's Email validation service.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.1(25)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post-title-validation
Down in the last 7 days:29#20,978by Pranav Pathak8 years ago
The Post-title-validation Plugin helps to create validation on title field of post, page, custom content type.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Protected Site
#22,255by dbhynds15 years ago
The Protected Site plugin blocks incoming traffic from accessing a blog or a specific blog in a network by requiring visitors to log in to WordPress.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Plugear Review Step for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:4,738#23,054by plugear2 months ago
Add a confirmation step to your Contact Form 7 forms. Turn it on per form. No second form, no extra page, no shortcode to add.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Comment Limiter
#24,112by Anass Rahou4 months ago
Limit comment length by setting minimum and maximum character rules for WordPress comments.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Comment form validation and Customization
Down in the last 7 days:471#24,362by Chetan Vaghela4 months ago
Enhance the default WordPress comment form with JavaScript validation, improved error handling, and customizable submit button text.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Enhanced Comment Validation
#24,767by Mukesh Panchal2 years ago
Enhanced Comment Validation plugin is an effective security solution that protects your WordPress comment form.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ignore Code
Up in the last 7 days:65#25,544by mattsaul9 years ago
Causes the visual editor to ignore code within the ignore_code shortcode. Great at keeping advanced HTML, JavaScript, or PHP code intact.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Bloqcode Chile
Down in the last 7 days:25#26,361by Andrés Vilches Cortés2 months ago
Native RUT field injection, Module 11 validation, and clean formatting for WooCommerce checkout in Chile.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DCO Post Validator
Down in the last 7 days:131#26,402by Denis Yanchevskiy6 years ago
Allows you to make post, page, custom post elements required: title, content, featured image.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Mime Type Check for Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:196#26,756by Umar Khan5 years ago
This plugin will let you add the functionality in Contact Form 7 File fields to validate it by mime types.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Email Address Validator
Up in the last 7 days:158#29,392by Jure8 years ago
Check email address inputs for common typos and fix them with only one click. Easily define custom checks.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Postcode Checkout
Up in the last 7 days:332#30,277by CodeBrain BV12 days ago
📦 Validate Customer Addresses in WooCommerce
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

QuickValid for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:1,423#31,384by Jorge del Campo Andrade5 months ago
QR ticket validation system for WooCommerce with unit management per product.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Better Email Validator
Down in the last 7 days:848#32,019by Chema2 years ago
Email Validator is a FREE lightweight and high-performance WordPress plugin that provides real-time email address validation during registration and f …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MailCheck.co
Down in the last 7 days:131#32,137by Mailcheck.co3 years ago
VALIDATE YOUR MAILING LIST IN ONE CLICK Be confident your mailing list contains only real emails addresses, get rid of bots and inactive users
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Validation Muse for Contact Form 7
#32,773by SYMONOV27 days ago
Custom validation rules & messages for Contact Form 7 — regex, length, required-if, per field, CF7 6.x SWV-compatible, multilingual.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Dokan Product Validation
Up in the last 7 days:6,913#33,650by Riyadh Ahmed2 months ago
Dokan Product Validation is a WordPress plugin for generating the required Product information fields.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Regex Validation for Gravity Forms
Down in the last 7 days:2,590#34,489by zirkel.design11 days ago
Adds custom regex validation with Unicode support and presets to Gravity Forms fields.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

HP Comment Form Validation
Up in the last 7 days:10,810#36,476by Hitesh Prajapati2 months ago
Lightweight and accessible validation for the native WordPress comment form. No settings, tracking, subscriptions, or external services.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

CF7 Mailgun Domain Validation
Up in the last 7 days:2,634#40,841by macbookandrew5 years ago
Allows email addresses using your site’s Mailgun domain to pass Contact Form 7’s form validation feature.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Awebsome! Comment Author Mail Validation
#45,261by Raul Illana15 years ago
Adds a new comment validation method in the "Before a comment appears" Discussion subsection panel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-Validate
Up in the last 7 days:2,374#45,550wp-validator18 years ago
WP-Validate collects all the pages on your site and runs them through the W3C's HTML Validator.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Gravity Forms Reject Disposable Emails
Down in the last 7 days:2,700#46,227by ethanpil13 years ago
Reject disposable email addresses in Gravity Forms email fields.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

International Address Checker
#53,421by gaafdigitalagency4 years ago
A free (WooCommerce) plugin that guarantees correct address input from your customers on, for example, your own registration or checkout webpage!
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Catalogafe
#55,463by CommerceWP7 days ago
Validate WooCommerce product CSV files before import: dry run, duplicate SKU check, quality score, fix reports and catalog audit. Never imports.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

ExertPro Product Publish Reminder
Up in the last 7 days:13,137#56,209by ExertPro3 months ago
Prevent incomplete WooCommerce products from being published.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
GoldSmith Forms English Only Filter
Up in the last 7 days:8,675#56,400by goldsmithsoftwares9 months ago
Restricts form inputs to English characters only.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Papion Ajax Registration Form Validation
Up in the last 7 days:15,372#57,405by Diego Betto9 years ago
Simple Ajax validation for Registration Form
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day