Best AI WordPress Plugins: Real Usage and Security Data

TL;DR: We track 136 AI plugins for WordPress across 27,181,000 active installs. The highest quality score goes to SEO Engine (98/100), while the most-installed is Yoast SEO at 10,000,000. The finding that matters most: 65% have had a security vulnerability disclosed, including 49 rated Critical, though only 8 carry an unpatched issue today.

Last updated: 11 September 2026. Data pulled: 11 September 2026, from the WordPress.org Plugin API, WordPress.org download stats, and the Wordfence Intelligence vulnerability feed. Plugins ranked: 136. Combined active installs: 27,181,000. Current WordPress major version: 7.

Most “best AI plugins for WordPress” posts are a list of names with affiliate links. This one carries a security audit, because that turned out to be the only signal that meaningfully separates these plugins.

I have tested more than 500 AI and SaaS tools with my own money over 15 years in software and SEO, and I have run WordPress sites for most of that time. The single most useful thing I can tell you about AI plugins is not which is best. It is that a plugin’s star rating tells you almost nothing, its install count tells you about its past, and its CVE history plus its last update date tell you what you are actually taking on.

The numbers worth quoting

• 136 AI WordPress plugins tracked as of 11 September 2026, across 27,181,000 active installs from 110 authors.
• 89 of 136 (65%) have had at least one CVE disclosed, 960 in total: 49 Critical, 195 High, 712 Medium.
• Only 8 plugins carry an unpatched vulnerability right now. 81 have shipped fixes and 47 have no CVE on record at all.
• Yoast SEO alone is 36.8% of all installs (10,000,000). The top ten hold 92.7%, leaving 126 plugins to share 7.3%.
• The quality leader has 1,000 installs. Popularity is deliberately excluded from the Quality Score, so the two rankings are different lists.
• SEO takes 60.5% of installs from 22 plugins, while Chatbots has 21 plugins and just 1.2%.
• Google is now the most-supported AI provider (44 plugins), ahead of OpenAI (41). 23 support Anthropic.
• 90 of 136 (66%) are genuinely free, not freemium, which contradicts the usual assumption about this category.
• Maintenance is healthy: median 10 days since the last update, 111 updated within 30 days, and only 3 untouched for over a year.
• 84 of 134 plugins grew their downloads over the last 30 days. The fastest, ThinkRank AI SEO, is up 3,291%.

Every figure is reproducible from the tables below. The methodology and citation line is at the bottom.

What Counts as an AI WordPress Plugin?

An AI WordPress plugin is a plugin from the WordPress.org directory that adds AI capability to a site you already run: a chatbot, content generation, translation, SEO metadata, alt text, or an agent that can act on your site. It is not the same thing as an AI website builder, which generates a whole site from scratch.

Inclusion here is automatic and transparent rather than hand-picked. A plugin is tracked when its WordPress.org title uses the word “AI” and it has at least 1,000 active installs.

That captures the plugins publicly positioning around AI, from dedicated tools to established suites that have added AI features, and it means new entrants appear on their own as they adopt AI. A short manual exclusion list removes obvious false matches. No plugin pays to be listed or ranked.

That rule has one consequence worth stating: the list includes mature plugins where AI is an addition rather than the point, and it includes brand-new plugins with a few thousand installs. The Quality Score and the install count are shown separately so you can tell those apart at a glance.

AI website builder versus AI plugin: which do you need?

An AI website builder creates the site itself, generating a whole site from a prompt. An AI plugin adds a specific capability, such as a chatbot, content generation, translation or SEO, to a WordPress site you already run.

If you have a WordPress site and want to add AI to it, you want a plugin from the directory below. If you have no site yet and want AI to build one, a builder is the faster start, and you can still add these plugins afterwards.

The 10 Highest-Quality AI WordPress Plugins

Rank	Plugin	Category	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
1	SEO Engine	SEO	4.9/5 (45)	1,000	No CVE	98/100
2	WPVibe - WordPress MCP Server. Connect Claude	Agents & Automation	4.9/5 (35)	20,000	No CVE	97/100
3	ThinkRank AI SEO	SEO	4.9/5 (27)	10,000	No CVE	97/100
4	Translate and Go multilingual	Translation	4.9/5 (30)	2,000	No CVE	97/100
5	Spectra Blocks	Design & Builders	4.5/5 (30)	40,000	No CVE	96/100
6	Chatway Live Chat	Chatbots	5/5 (754)	30,000	Patched	96/100
7	Easy MCP AI	Agents & Automation	5/5 (8)	10,000	No CVE	96/100
8	AutoPoly	Translation	4.5/5 (26)	5,000	No CVE	96/100
9	Ailo - AI Slug Translator	Translation	4.9/5 (12)	1,000	No CVE	96/100
10	VigIA - AI Visibility	AI Visibility	5/5 (18)	1,000	No CVE	96/100

This is not a popularity list, and it is the more useful of the two rankings once you have narrowed to a category. The Quality Score measures how well a plugin is run: updated recently, tested against current WordPress, well rated relative to its review count, responsive in support, and free of unpatched vulnerabilities.

Quality scores here cluster high. The maximum is 98, the median 90, the minimum 54, with a mean of 86.3.

That is because WordPress plugin authors, on the whole, maintain their work: 123 of 136 plugins are actively maintained by the data engine’s definition. A score below about 75 in this directory is a genuine warning sign rather than a mild one.

Here is what I would say about the twelve highest-scoring plugins I have used or evaluated closely. The full directory carries 59 of these notes.

SEO Engine (quality 98/100) A quietly capable AI SEO plugin (metadata, schema, content) with a refreshingly low-key pitch. Worth testing if you’re tired of bloated SEO suites.
WPVibe - WordPress MCP Server. Co… (quality 97/100) An MCP server linking Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor to WordPress. Very new with a low rating - interesting for developers, not yet for cautious site owners.
Chatway Live Chat (quality 96/100) A lightweight live-chat widget that added an AI agent and multi-channel buttons (WhatsApp, Messenger). Solid ratings and fast-growing, but the AI is newer than the chat core.
Easy MCP AI (quality 96/100) Connects any MCP-capable AI to WordPress so you can manage the whole site by chat. Tiny install base and brand-new category - treat as early-adopter territory.
AutoPoly (quality 96/100) AutoPoly automates AI translation for Polylang sites. Small but well-rated - the obvious add-on for Polylang users who don’t want to translate by hand.
Ailo - AI Slug Translator (quality 96/100) Ailo translates non-English slugs into clean English URLs with AI - a small but genuinely useful SEO fix for non-English sites. Single-purpose and does it well.
VigIA - AI Visibility (quality 96/100) VigIA monitors 60+ AI crawlers and controls access via robots.txt while tracking AI visibility. The most analytical option in this category - useful if you want to measure, not guess.
Starter Templates (quality 95/100) Brainstorm Force’s template library now generates a starter site from an AI prompt (the same lineage as ZipWP). Genuinely useful for a fast start: the AI builds the scaffold, you still do the real work.
SEOPress (quality 95/100) SEOPress is a mature, no-nonsense SEO suite that added genuine AI metadata generation (titles, descriptions) - and it’s the SEO plugin we run on zplatform.ai is a feature here, not the whole product, but it’s a real one.
AI Engine (quality 95/100) The most mature general-purpose AI plugin on WordPress.org - one install gives you chatbots, content generation, AI forms, and stable connectors for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and more. A near-perfect rating across 800+ reviews and weekly updates back up the popularity.
Easy Accordion (quality 95/100) An accordion and FAQ block plugin that added an AI FAQ generator. The AI is a small convenience bolted onto a focused UI plugin: handy, not the reason to install it.
AI (quality 95/100) The official ‘AI’ feature plugin from the WordPress core team: experimental building blocks bringing AI into WordPress itself. One to watch as a signal of where core is heading, more than a finished tool.

The 10 Most-Installed AI WordPress Plugins

Rank	Plugin	Category	Active installs	Rating	Quality score
1	Yoast SEO	SEO	10,000,000	4.8/5	93/100
2	WPForms - AI Form Builder for WordPress - Con…	Forms	5,000,000	4.8/5	94/100
3	Rank Math SEO	SEO	4,000,000	4.8/5	93/100
4	All in One SEO	SEO	2,000,000	4.7/5	94/100
5	Starter Templates	Design & Builders	1,000,000	4.9/5	95/100
6	AI Agent by SiteGround	Agents & Automation	1,000,000	1.6/5	64/100
7	Hostinger Reach	Marketing & Email	1,000,000	5/5	87/100
8	SureForms	Forms	500,000	4.9/5	94/100
9	TranslatePress	Translation	400,000	4.7/5	91/100
10	SEOPress	SEO	300,000	4.8/5	95/100

Compare that list to the previous one. They barely overlap, and that is the point.

Yoast SEO has 10,000,000 installs. The quality leader, SEO Engine, has 1,000.

Neither number is wrong and neither is the whole picture: the install count tells you a plugin is proven at scale and will not vanish next quarter, while the quality score tells you how well it is being looked after right now. For something as privileged as an AI plugin with database and content access, both matter.

The practical rule I use: shortlist by category, sanity-check the install count so you are not the first person to find a bug, then choose on quality score and security status.

How is the quality score calculated?

The Quality Score is a 0 to 100 weighted blend of four pillars: maintenance 35%, rating quality 30%, security 20%, and support 15%. Active installs are deliberately excluded, so popularity and quality stay separate axes rather than collapsing into one number.

What each pillar means:

• Maintenance (35%) combines how recently the plugin shipped an update with whether it declares compatibility with the current WordPress major version (7). 14 plugins are not yet tested against it.
• Rating quality (30%) is the WordPress.org rating, adjusted so a handful of five-star reviews cannot outrank a battle-tested plugin with thousands.
• Security (20%) reflects whether the plugin has known unpatched vulnerabilities. A patched CVE history barely dents this; an open one does real damage.
• Support (15%) is the resolved-thread rate on the plugin’s WordPress.org support forum. 82 plugins have enough forum activity to score; the other 54 are treated neutrally rather than punished.

The weighting is published here verbatim because you should be able to disagree with it. If you care more about security than maintenance, read the security column directly instead of the composite.

Do AI WordPress plugins have security problems?

Yes, and this is the most important section on the page. 89 of the 136 tracked plugins (65%) have had at least one vulnerability disclosed, 960 CVEs in total, of which 49 were rated Critical and 195 High. Only 8 plugins carry an unpatched issue today.

Read that pair of numbers carefully, because the alarming one and the actionable one are different.

A long CVE history is not evidence that a plugin is unsafe. It usually means the opposite: the plugin is popular enough to attract security researchers, and its author has been fixing what they report. EventPrime has 45 CVEs on record on only 7,000 installs, and what matters is whether any remain open, not the total.

The number that should change your decision is the unpatched count. These are the plugins with a known, unfixed vulnerability as of this snapshot:

Plugin	Active installs	Unpatched CVEs	Worst severity	Last CVE
Classified Listing	9,000	1	Medium	2026-09-02
AI Bud - AI Content Generator	2,000	1	High	2026-04-30
MultiVendorX	2,000	1	Medium	2026-08-31
AI Copilot	1,000	1	Medium	2025-12-31
AutoWP - AI Content Writer & Rewriter	1,000	1	Medium	2025-08-21
Smart Related Products	1,000	1	Medium	2025-09-26
WP Wand - Unlimited Content Generation using…	1,000	1	Medium	2026-01-30
FormGent	1,000	1	Critical	2026-08-05

And for context, the plugins with the longest disclosure histories, which is a different thing entirely:

Plugin	CVEs on record	Critical	Unpatched today	Active installs
EventPrime	45	0	0	7,000
WPBot - AI ChatBot for Live Support	45	5	0	5,000
WP Job Portal	44	3	0	8,000
AI Engine	34	3	0	100,000
JS Help Desk	33	6	0	7,000
Rank Math SEO	31	1	0	4,000,000
MultiVendorX	31	2	1	2,000
All in One SEO	29	1	0	2,000,000
Classified Listing	29	0	1	9,000
Project Manager	26	0	0	5,000

Neither the Chrome Web Store nor Mozilla Add-ons publishes anything comparable to this feed, which is why our AI Chrome extensions report and AI Firefox add-ons report score on three pillars instead of four. WordPress is the one ecosystem of the three where you can check a plugin’s security record before installing it. Use that.

What to actually do: before installing any AI plugin, check its unpatched status and its last update date. An AI plugin typically wants database access, content write access, and an outbound connection to a model provider. That is a large amount of trust, and it is worth thirty seconds of checking.

Which categories hold the most AI WordPress plugins?

SEO holds the most plugins at 22, with Chatbots next at 21. Their audiences are nothing alike: SEO accounts for 60.5% of all installs while Chatbots accounts for 1.2%.

Category	Plugins	Combined installs	Share	Biggest plugin
SEO	22	16,440,000	60.5%	Yoast SEO (10M)
Chatbots	21	334,000	1.2%	AI Engine (100k)
Agents & Automation	17	1,407,000	5.2%	AI Agent by SiteGround (1M)
eCommerce	13	198,000	0.7%	Product Feed Manager for Wo… (80k)
Translation	10	493,000	1.8%	TranslatePress (400k)
Other	10	152,000	0.6%	Better Find and Replace (40k)
Content & Writing	10	142,000	0.5%	GetGenie (80k)
Design & Builders	9	1,201,000	4.4%	Starter Templates (1M)
Forms	7	5,664,000	20.8%	WPForms - AI Form Builder f… (5M)
Image & Alt Text	7	80,000	0.3%	Media File Renamer (40k)
AI Visibility	7	11,000	0.0%	Better Robots.txt (5k)
Marketing & Email	3	1,059,000	3.9%	Hostinger Reach (1M)
All 12 categories	136	27,181,000	100%	Yoast SEO (10M)

That is the competitive picture in one line. The Chatbots audience is contested by 21 plugins and the SEO audience by 22, but the second group is serving 49 times as many sites. AI chatbots are the category everyone builds because it is the obvious AI product; SEO is where WordPress users were already spending, and the established suites carried their installed base with them when they added AI.

If you are choosing a plugin, the crowded categories are where you should read the quality column hardest, because there are many similar options and the differences are in maintenance and support rather than features.

How concentrated are AI plugin installs?

Heavily, and more so than either browser store. Yoast SEO alone holds 36.8% of installs, the top three hold 69.9%, and the top ten hold 92.7%. The remaining 126 plugins share 7.3% between them.

The median plugin here has 6,000 active installs. Only seven clear a million, and 59 sit under five thousand. WordPress.org reports installs in rounded ranges, never exact figures, which is why this report derives growth from download counts instead.

The reason concentration is so extreme is that the biggest entries are not AI-first plugins at all. They are mature suites that added AI to an installed base built over a decade. That is worth knowing when you read a claim that some AI plugin has millions of users: the users usually came for the SEO or the forms.

Do WordPress.org ratings help you pick?

Barely, for the same reason they fail on the browser stores. 97 of 136 plugins (71%) are rated 4.5 or above and 83% sit at 4.0 or better, with a mean of 4.53 out of 5.

The deeper problem is sample size. There are 78,271 ratings across the whole directory, but 37 plugins have fewer than ten. A 5.0 from six people is not a quality signal.

Support data is thinner still but more revealing when present. 82 plugins have enough WordPress.org forum activity to compute a resolved-thread rate; the median among them is 100% and the mean 76%. That gap between median and mean is the interesting part: most plugins with support activity resolve nearly everything, and a minority resolve almost nothing, which drags the average down.

Which AI WordPress plugins are growing fastest?

ThinkRank AI SEO grew its downloads 3,291% over the last 30 days versus the prior 30, followed by xSpeed Cache at 552%. Of the 134 plugins with enough download volume to measure, 84 grew and 49 declined.

WordPress.org publishes exact daily download counts, so unlike the rounded install figures on the Chrome Web Store these are real percentages. The trend compares median daily downloads across the two periods, so a single release-day spike cannot manufacture growth, and low-volume plugins show no trend at all rather than a noisy one.

Plugin	Category	30-day download trend	Downloads/day	Active installs
ThinkRank AI SEO	SEO	+3,291%	2,173	10,000
xSpeed Cache	Agents & Automation	+552%	304	3,000
Translate and Go multilingual	Translation	+404%	242	2,000
AI Puffer	Content & Writing	+373%	2,353	10,000
Secure MCP Server for Claude	Agents & Automation	+334%	277	2,000
Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Mar…	eCommerce	+220%	2,619	30,000
Product Feed Manager for WooCommerce	eCommerce	+198%	8,180	80,000
ZIP AI - AI Website Builder & AI Agent (Beta)	Agents & Automation	+149%	189	1,000
Atarim - AI Agency for WordPress	SEO	+146%	194	1,000
BeyondSEO	SEO	+145%	827	7,000

Look at what is at the top of that list. The fastest growth is not in chatbots or content generation, the two categories with the most plugins.

It is in MCP connectors that let Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini operate a WordPress site directly, and in AI-crawler controls that decide whether AI systems may read your content at all. Both categories barely existed a year ago.

That mirrors what we found on Chrome, where an extension for hiding Google’s AI Overviews was the single fastest riser. Across both ecosystems, some of the strongest growth in “AI” tooling is in deciding how much AI to allow.

And the other direction:

Plugin	Category	30-day download trend	Downloads/day	Active installs
Visualizer	Other	-57%	193	20,000
AI Engine	Chatbots	-39%	8,663	100,000
Translate WordPress with Weglot	Translation	-34%	460	50,000
Block AI Crawlers	AI Visibility	-33%	78	1,000
WDesignKit	Agents & Automation	-32%	970	30,000
Directorist	Other	-32%	658	20,000

Visualizer is down 57% on 193 downloads a day, which is the steepest decline in the directory. High-volume declines usually mean a bundled plugin being unbundled or a shift in how a host distributes it, rather than users actively removing it.

Which AI providers do WordPress plugins actually support?

Google is the most widely supported AI provider in this directory, wired up by 44 plugins, ahead of OpenAI at 41. 12 distinct providers appear across the list.

AI provider	Plugins supporting it	Share of the list
Google	44	32%
OpenAI	41	30%
Anthropic	23	17%
Perplexity	7	5%
OpenRouter	6	4%
DeepSeek	5	4%
xAI	4	3%
Mistral	3	2%
Ollama	1	1%
Azure	1	1%

That ordering is a genuine surprise and worth citing carefully. OpenAI was the default integration for the first wave of AI plugins, and on raw counts it has now been matched or passed. Anthropic appears in 23 plugins, largely the newer agent and MCP tools rather than the content generators.

For you as a buyer, provider support matters for two practical reasons: you usually supply your own API key, so the provider list determines whether you can use the account you already pay for, and multi-provider plugins give you somewhere to go when a model is deprecated or a price changes.

Which AI WordPress plugins look abandoned?

Three plugins have not shipped an update in over a year, and three are flagged as abandoned outright, the worst being AppScenic at 606 days since its last release.

Plugin	Days since update	Active installs	Rating	Tested to WP
AppScenic	606	3,000	4/5	6.7.7
Greenshift Smart Code AI	475	1,000	5/5	6.9.7
AIKO - AI Developer Lite	420	6,000	0/5	6.8.8
LLM Bot Tracker	352	1,000	3/5	6.8.8
AutoPen - AI Content Writer	332	4,000	0/5	6.8.8
ClickRank	309	1,000	3.7/5	6.8.8
Smartsupp	276	20,000	4.7/5	6.8.8

By the standards of the browser stores this is a remarkably healthy picture. On Chrome, fifteen extensions with real user bases were more than a year stale.

Here the median plugin was updated 10 days ago and 111 of 136 (82%) shipped something within the last month. WordPress.org’s public “last updated” field and its compatibility warnings create real pressure that the extension stores do not.

Two things still deserve a check. 14 plugins are not yet marked as tested against WordPress 7, which is usually a lag rather than a problem but is worth noting on a live site. And an AI plugin that has stopped shipping is riskier than a stale plugin of another kind, because the model APIs it talks to keep changing underneath it.

Best AI WordPress Plugins by Category

Nobody needs “the best AI plugin.” They need a chatbot, or alt text, or a translation layer. Each group below is the top five by quality score within that category, with its security status alongside.

Best AI SEO plugins for WordPress

AI SEO plugins now blend classic on-page SEO with generative metadata and AI-visibility features.

We list SEO plugins where AI is a substantial, central feature: AI-written metadata, schema generation, and emerging GEO/AEO tooling, rather than mature SEO suites with a bolt-on AI upsell.

22 plugins in this category, 16,440,000 combined installs. Top 5 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
SEO Engine	4.9/5	1,000	No CVE	98/100
ThinkRank AI SEO	4.9/5	10,000	No CVE	97/100
SEOPress	4.8/5	300,000	Patched	95/100
AI Alt Text Generator	4.8/5	2,000	No CVE	95/100
All in One SEO	4.7/5	2,000,000	Patched	94/100

Best AI Forms plugins for WordPress

Form plugins are adding AI form generation: describe a form in a sentence and get a draft.

The big form builders now generate forms from a prompt and use AI for spam filtering or response analysis. The AI speeds up form creation, but these are mature form tools first and AI tools second.

7 plugins in this category, 5,664,000 combined installs. Top 5 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
Calculated Fields Form	4.9/5	40,000	Patched	95/100
WPForms - AI Form Builder for WordPress - Con…	4.8/5	5,000,000	Patched	94/100
SureForms	4.9/5	500,000	Patched	94/100
Nexter Blocks	4.8/5	10,000	Patched	94/100
Everest Forms	4.9/5	90,000	Patched	88/100

Best AI Agents & Automation plugins for WordPress

AI agents and MCP connectors are the newest frontier: powerful, fast-moving, and worth scrutiny.

This category spans no-code automation with AI steps and the brand-new wave of MCP servers that let Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini manage your site directly. The upside is large, and so is the risk of handing an AI write-access to a live site, which is why security framing matters.

17 plugins in this category, 1,407,000 combined installs. Top 5 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
WPVibe - WordPress MCP Server. Connect Claude	4.9/5	20,000	No CVE	97/100
Easy MCP AI	5/5	10,000	No CVE	96/100
AI	4.6/5	50,000	No CVE	95/100
Uncanny Automator	4.9/5	40,000	Patched	95/100
AI Provider for Google	0/5	40,000	No CVE	94/100

Best AI Design & Builders plugins for WordPress

Page builders and template libraries now generate layouts and starter sites from a prompt.

Builders and block plugins use AI to draft pages, suggest designs, or scaffold a whole site. A real head start, but AI-generated layouts still need a human pass before they ship.

9 plugins in this category, 1,201,000 combined installs. Top 5 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
Spectra Blocks	4.5/5	40,000	No CVE	96/100
Starter Templates	4.9/5	1,000,000	Patched	95/100
Easy Accordion	4.9/5	70,000	Patched	95/100
Listdom: AI-powered Business Directory with C…	4.9/5	1,000	Patched	94/100
Kubio AI Page Builder	4.4/5	80,000	Patched	92/100

Best AI Marketing & Email plugins for WordPress

Marketing and email plugins use AI to draft campaigns, subject lines and ad copy.

Email marketing, CRM and ads plugins are adding AI to write and optimize campaigns. The AI saves drafting time, and results still depend on your list, offer and targeting.

3 plugins in this category, 1,059,000 combined installs. Top 3 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
Hostinger Reach	5/5	1,000,000	Patched	87/100
Classified Listing	4.8/5	9,000	UNPATCHED	83/100
AI Powered Marketing	2.7/5	50,000	No CVE	75/100

Best AI Translation plugins for WordPress

AI translation plugins make a WordPress site multilingual in minutes using neural machine translation.

These plugins auto-translate content across dozens of languages. The trade-off is usually between free client-side translation and paid, SEO-friendly multilingual URLs hosted on the vendor’s platform.

10 plugins in this category, 493,000 combined installs. Top 5 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
Translate and Go multilingual	4.9/5	2,000	No CVE	97/100
AutoPoly	4.5/5	5,000	No CVE	96/100
Ailo - AI Slug Translator	4.9/5	1,000	No CVE	96/100
TranslatePress	4.7/5	400,000	Patched	91/100
Translate WordPress with Weglot	4.8/5	50,000	Patched	91/100

Best AI Chatbots plugins for WordPress

AI chatbots are the largest and most competitive AI plugin category on WordPress.

AI chatbot plugins turn your content and support docs into a conversation, answering visitors, capturing leads, and deflecting support tickets. The strongest options connect to multiple AI providers and ground answers in your own content rather than hallucinating.

21 plugins in this category, 334,000 combined installs. Top 5 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
Chatway Live Chat	5/5	30,000	Patched	96/100
AI Engine	4.9/5	100,000	Patched	95/100
SupportCandy	4.9/5	10,000	Patched	95/100
Tidio - Live Chat & AI Chatbots	4.7/5	70,000	Patched	94/100
Jotform - AI Chatbot	5/5	5,000	No CVE	94/100

Best AI eCommerce plugins for WordPress

eCommerce plugins use AI mostly to write product content and assist shoppers.

WooCommerce-adjacent plugins are adding AI to generate product descriptions, recommend products, and power shopping assistants. Useful for stores with large catalogs, where the AI is a helper around the commerce core.

13 plugins in this category, 198,000 combined installs. Top 5 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
BEAR - Bulk Editor for WooCommerce Profession…	4.7/5	40,000	Patched	94/100
Mail Mint	4.7/5	4,000	Patched	94/100
Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Mar…	4.6/5	30,000	Patched	92/100
Product Feed Manager for WooCommerce	4.6/5	80,000	Patched	91/100
WordClever	0/5	3,000	No CVE	90/100

Best AI Other plugins for WordPress

Plugins across every other niche are quietly adding AI features.

From documentation and directories to media utilities and accessibility, plugins of every kind are bolting on AI. This catch-all category captures the breadth of WordPress’s move toward AI beyond the obvious tools.

10 plugins in this category, 152,000 combined installs. Top 5 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
BetterDocs	4.8/5	30,000	Patched	95/100
GamiPress	4.9/5	10,000	Patched	95/100
Better Messages	4.8/5	10,000	Patched	94/100
Visualizer	4.4/5	20,000	Patched	92/100
EventPrime	4.5/5	7,000	Patched	92/100

Best AI Content & Writing plugins for WordPress

AI content plugins write and edit inside WordPress. Use them to assist, not to mass-produce.

These plugins generate drafts, rewrite copy, and fill product fields from inside the editor. After Google’s 2026 updates, the winners are the ones used to speed up human writing, not to auto-publish thin pages at scale.

10 plugins in this category, 142,000 combined installs. Top 5 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
GetGenie	4.8/5	80,000	Patched	94/100
Simple Link Directory	4.8/5	2,000	Patched	94/100
WP RSS Aggregator	4.5/5	40,000	Patched	93/100
BotWriter	4.4/5	2,000	No CVE	90/100
AI Puffer	4.6/5	10,000	Patched	89/100

Best AI Image & Alt Text plugins for WordPress

AI image plugins on WordPress mostly automate alt text, a tedious accessibility and SEO win.

The bulk of demand here is automatic, descriptive alt text for accessibility and image SEO, alongside a smaller set of true AI image generators. Most run on credits.

7 plugins in this category, 80,000 combined installs. Top 5 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
Alt Magic	5/5	2,000	No CVE	92/100
StockPack	4.4/5	7,000	No CVE	91/100
Media File Renamer	4.6/5	40,000	Patched	89/100
Project Manager	3.8/5	5,000	Patched	89/100
Alt Text AI	4.7/5	20,000	Patched	88/100

Best AI AI Visibility plugins for WordPress

AI-visibility plugins decide how AI crawlers see, or are blocked from, your WordPress content.

A new, low-competition category: tools that generate llms.txt, monitor AI crawlers, or block them entirely. Whether you want to be cited by AI or opt out of training, this is where you control it.

7 plugins in this category, 11,000 combined installs. Top 5 by quality score:

Plugin	Rating	Active installs	Security	Quality score
VigIA - AI Visibility	5/5	1,000	No CVE	96/100
Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries	5/5	1,000	Patched	92/100
Block AI Crawlers	4.4/5	1,000	No CVE	90/100
LovedByAI	4.4/5	1,000	No CVE	90/100
Better Robots.txt	4.5/5	5,000	Patched	84/100

The full directory: All 136 AI WordPress plugins ranked

Every tracked plugin, ranked by Quality Score, with the inputs shown so you can check the arithmetic. Active installs are WordPress.org’s rounded ranges. Security is the current status, not the historical count.

#	Plugin	Author	Category	Rating	Ratings	Active installs	Updated	Security	Pricing	Quality
1	SEO Engine	Jordy Meow	SEO	4.9	45	1,000	2026-09-03	No CVE	freemium	98
2	WPVibe - WordPress MCP Server. Connect Claude	SeedProd	Agents & Automation	4.9	35	20,000	2026-09-09	No CVE	freemium	97
3	ThinkRank AI SEO	WPDeveloper	SEO	4.9	27	10,000	2026-09-10	No CVE	free	97
4	Translate and Go multilingual	wpLingua Translation Service	Translation	4.9	30	2,000	2026-09-09	No CVE	free	97
5	Spectra Blocks	Brainstorm Force	Design & Builders	4.5	30	40,000	2026-09-08	No CVE	free	96
6	Chatway Live Chat	Chatway Live Chat	Chatbots	5	754	30,000	2026-09-01	Patched	freemium	96
7	Easy MCP AI	Themeisle	Agents & Automation	5	8	10,000	2026-09-02	No CVE	freemium	96
8	AutoPoly	Cool Plugins	Translation	4.5	26	5,000	2026-09-02	No CVE	freemium	96
9	Ailo - AI Slug Translator	Elchanan Levavi	Translation	4.9	12	1,000	2026-08-27	No CVE	freemium	96
10	VigIA - AI Visibility	Fernando Tellado	AI Visibility	5	18	1,000	2026-09-04	No CVE	freemium	96
11	Starter Templates	Brainstorm Force	Design & Builders	4.9	4,746	1,000,000	2026-09-08	Patched	free	95
12	SEOPress	Benjamin Denis	SEO	4.8	1,253	300,000	2026-09-02	Patched	freemium	95
13	AI Engine	Jordy Meow	Chatbots	4.9	864	100,000	2026-09-08	Patched	freemium	95
14	Easy Accordion	ShapedPlugin LLC	Design & Builders	4.9	358	70,000	2026-08-20	Patched	freemium	95
15	AI	WordPress.org	Agents & Automation	4.6	8	50,000	2026-08-18	No CVE	free	95
16	Calculated Fields Form	codepeople	Forms	4.9	970	40,000	2026-09-10	Patched	free	95
17	Uncanny Automator	Uncanny Owl	Agents & Automation	4.9	157	40,000	2026-09-03	Patched	freemium	95
18	BetterDocs	WPDeveloper	Other	4.8	513	30,000	2026-09-03	Patched	freemium	95
19	SupportCandy	PSM Plugins	Chatbots	4.9	289	10,000	2026-09-01	Patched	free	95
20	GamiPress	Ruben Garcia	Other	4.9	493	10,000	2026-08-31	Patched	free	95
21	AI Alt Text Generator	migkapa	SEO	4.8	5	2,000	2026-08-28	No CVE	free	95
22	WPForms - AI Form Builder for WordPress - Con…	Syed Balkhi	Forms	4.8	14,372	5,000,000	2026-09-04	Patched	free	94
23	All in One SEO	Syed Balkhi	SEO	4.7	5,205	2,000,000	2026-08-28	Patched	free	94
24	SureForms	Brainstorm Force	Forms	4.9	91	500,000	2026-09-02	Patched	free	94
25	GetGenie	Roxnor	Content & Writing	4.8	118	80,000	2026-09-07	Patched	freemium	94
26	Slim SEO	Anh Tran	SEO	4.7	136	70,000	2026-09-07	Patched	free	94
27	Tidio - Live Chat & AI Chatbots	Tytus Gołas	Chatbots	4.7	396	70,000	2026-09-01	Patched	freemium	94
28	AI Provider for Google	WordPress.org	Agents & Automation	0	0	40,000	2026-08-17	No CVE	free	94
29	AI Provider for OpenAI	WordPress.org	Agents & Automation	0	0	40,000	2026-08-17	No CVE	free	94
30	BEAR - Bulk Editor for WooCommerce Profession…	RealMag777	eCommerce	4.7	227	40,000	2026-09-09	Patched	free	94
31	Better Messages	wordplus	Other	4.8	141	10,000	2026-09-09	Patched	free	94
32	Nexter Blocks	POSIMYTH	Forms	4.8	90	10,000	2026-09-08	Patched	freemium	94
33	AutomatorWP	Ruben Garcia	Agents & Automation	4.8	201	7,000	2026-09-07	Patched	free	94
34	Jotform - AI Chatbot	Jotform	Chatbots	5	1	5,000	2026-08-13	No CVE	freemium	94
35	WPBot - AI ChatBot for Live Support	QuantumCloud	Chatbots	4.7	123	5,000	2026-09-09	Patched	freemium	94
36	Mail Mint	WPFunnels	eCommerce	4.7	126	4,000	2026-09-09	Patched	free	94
37	Simple Link Directory	QuantumCloud	Content & Writing	4.8	121	2,000	2026-08-25	Patched	free	94
38	AI Marketing Expert	Noor Alam	Chatbots	5	1	1,000	2026-09-09	No CVE	free	94
39	Listdom: AI-powered Business Directory with C…	Webilia Inc.	Design & Builders	4.9	57	1,000	2026-09-08	Patched	free	94
40	Yoast SEO	Yoast	SEO	4.8	27,819	10,000,000	2026-09-01	Patched	freemium	93
41	Rank Math SEO	Rank Math SEO	SEO	4.8	7,499	4,000,000	2026-09-08	Patched	free	93
42	WP RSS Aggregator	RebelCode	Content & Writing	4.5	562	40,000	2026-09-04	Patched	free	93
43	weDocs: AI Powered Knowledge Base	weDevs	Chatbots	4.6	68	5,000	2026-08-27	Patched	free	93
44	Kubio AI Page Builder	Extend Themes	Design & Builders	4.4	77	80,000	2026-08-31	Patched	free	92
45	Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Mar…	Dokan, Inc.	eCommerce	4.6	768	30,000	2026-09-10	Patched	free	92
46	WDesignKit	POSIMYTH	Agents & Automation	4.8	12	30,000	2026-08-21	Patched	free	92
47	Visualizer	Themeisle	Other	4.4	225	20,000	2026-08-20	Patched	free	92
48	EventPrime	Metagauss	Other	4.5	84	7,000	2026-09-04	Patched	free	92
49	SOOZ - AI for SEO - Bulk Generate Focus Keyph…	Space Codes	SEO	4.7	13	2,000	2026-09-08	Patched	freemium	92
50	Alt Magic	Alt Magic Pro	Image & Alt Text	5	19	2,000	2026-08-31	No CVE	freemium	92
51	Share Buttons & AI-powered Summaries	Fernando Tellado	AI Visibility	5	16	1,000	2026-08-28	Patched	free	92
52	AI ChatBot for WooCommerce	QuantumCloud	Chatbots	4.8	19	1,000	2026-08-28	Patched	freemium	92
53	Media Library Tools	Tiny Solutions	SEO	4.7	14	1,000	2026-09-04	Patched	free	92
54	TranslatePress	Cozmoslabs	Translation	4.7	1,654	400,000	2026-09-08	Patched	freemium	91
55	Product Feed Manager for WooCommerce	WebAppick	eCommerce	4.6	832	80,000	2026-09-10	Patched	free	91
56	Translate WordPress with Weglot	Weglot Translate Team	Translation	4.8	1,935	50,000	2026-07-22	Patched	freemium	91
57	StockPack	StockPack	Image & Alt Text	4.4	24	7,000	2026-09-10	No CVE	free	91
58	xSpeed Cache	WPDeveloper	Agents & Automation	4.7	14	3,000	2026-09-07	No CVE	free	91
59	Support Genix	DevItems	Chatbots	4.5	10	2,000	2026-09-06	Patched	freemium	91
60	LinkBoss	ZVENTURES	SEO	4.8	17	2,000	2026-09-03	No CVE	free	91
61	BeyondSEO	rankingCoach	SEO	4	4	7,000	2026-09-04	No CVE	free	90
62	WordClever	WP Radiant	eCommerce	0	0	3,000	2026-09-07	No CVE	free	90
63	BotWriter	Esteban	Content & Writing	4.4	16	2,000	2026-09-09	No CVE	freemium	90
64	Secure MCP Server for Claude	miniOrange	Agents & Automation	5	3	2,000	2026-09-04	No CVE	free	90
65	ZIP AI - AI Website Builder & AI Agent (Beta)	Brainstorm Force	Agents & Automation	5	1	1,000	2026-09-03	No CVE	free	90
66	Block AI Crawlers	lastsplash (a11n)	AI Visibility	4.4	8	1,000	2026-08-30	No CVE	free	90
67	LovedByAI	LovedByAI	AI Visibility	4.4	5	1,000	2026-09-01	No CVE	free	90
68	WSP MCP - WordPress MCP - Connect Claude	Bilal Naseer	eCommerce	5	4	1,000	2026-09-02	No CVE	free	90
69	Atarim - AI Agency for WordPress	Vito Peleg	SEO	4.9	126	1,000	2026-08-28	Patched	free	90
70	Buttonizer	Buttonizer	Chatbots	5	23	50,000	2026-08-13	Patched	free	89
71	Media File Renamer	Jordy Meow	Image & Alt Text	4.6	447	40,000	2026-08-17	Patched	free	89
72	Better Find and Replace	CodeSolz Software Park	Other	4.6	171	40,000	2026-09-07	Patched	free	89
73	AI Puffer	senols	Content & Writing	4.6	165	10,000	2026-09-05	Patched	freemium	89
74	Xagio SEO & AEO	Xagio SEO	SEO	4.9	51	10,000	2026-08-20	Patched	freemium	89
75	Project Manager	weDevs	Image & Alt Text	3.8	187	5,000	2026-08-19	Patched	free	89
76	Boei - AI Chatbot	Boei	Chatbots	5	30	1,000	2026-08-10	No CVE	free	89
77	Everest Forms	wpeverest	Forms	4.9	375	90,000	2026-09-07	Patched	freemium	88
78	Alt Text AI	alttextai	Image & Alt Text	4.7	35	20,000	2026-09-03	Patched	freemium	88
79	easy.jobs	WPDeveloper	Design & Builders	4.7	26	4,000	2026-09-01	Patched	free	88
80	Linguator AI	Cool Plugins	Translation	4.5	19	3,000	2026-08-24	No CVE	free	88
81	Translate WordPress with ConveyThis	ConveyThis	Translation	4.4	145	1,000	2026-09-10	Patched	free	88
82	Hostinger Reach	Hostinger	Marketing & Email	5	8	1,000,000	2026-09-10	Patched	free	87
83	Directorist	wpWax	Other	4.6	697	20,000	2026-09-02	Patched	free	87
84	BEW - Elementor Addons	Bosa Themes	eCommerce	4.5	28	20,000	2026-09-10	Patched	free	87
85	MxChat - AI Chatbot & Content Generation for…	MxChat	Chatbots	5	30	2,000	2026-09-06	Patched	freemium	87
86	Importify	importify	eCommerce	4.5	27	2,000	2026-08-30	Patched	free	87
87	Universally	Syed Balkhi	Translation	5	1	20,000	2026-07-06	No CVE	free	86
88	Lead Generation Contact Widget & AI Chatbot:…	Extend Themes	Chatbots	5	2	10,000	2026-08-21	Patched	free	86
89	WP Job Portal	wpjobportal	Other	4.3	32	8,000	2026-08-27	Patched	free	86
90	Hyve Lite	Themeisle	Chatbots	4.3	6	6,000	2026-09-01	Patched	freemium	86
91	Royal MCP	Royal Plugins	Agents & Automation	5	7	10,000	2026-09-10	Patched	freemium	85
92	Manago AI & Leadoo AI	Manago AI	Chatbots	3	2	1,000	2026-08-26	Patched	free	85
93	Seers AI | Cookie Consent Banner	Nick Spencer	Other	4.7	52	1,000	2026-07-29	Patched	free	85
94	JS Help Desk	JoomSky	Chatbots	3.7	74	7,000	2026-09-07	Patched	free	84
95	Better Robots.txt	Pagup	AI Visibility	4.5	102	5,000	2026-07-04	Patched	free	84
96	AI WP Writer	aipost	Content & Writing	4.9	22	3,000	2026-07-30	Patched	freemium	84
97	AI Popup Builder & Popup Maker by OptiMonk	OptiMonk Popup Creators	Design & Builders	4.7	98	3,000	2026-09-09	Patched	free	84
98	GetAutoSEO AI Tool	AutoSEO	SEO	3	2	2,000	2026-09-01	No CVE	free	84
99	AI Translation For TranslatePress	Cool Plugins	Translation	4.8	69	10,000	2026-09-01	No CVE	freemium	83
100	Classified Listing	RadiusTheme	Marketing & Email	4.8	138	9,000	2026-09-07	UNPATCHED	free	83
101	Search Atlas SEO	Search Atlas Group	SEO	3.3	24	8,000	2026-09-11	Patched	free	83
102	Bit Flows	Bit Apps	Agents & Automation	4.9	65	2,000	2026-09-08	No CVE	freemium	83
103	Image SEO	watermelon-joy	SEO	3.4	58	1,000	2026-08-25	Patched	free	83
104	MultiVendorX	MultiVendorX	eCommerce	4.8	432	2,000	2026-09-08	UNPATCHED	free	82
105	Pixelavo	HasThemes	eCommerce	3	2	2,000	2026-08-04	Patched	freemium	82
106	Linguise	Linguise	Translation	4.9	31	1,000	2026-09-10	No CVE	free	82
107	Angie - Agentic AI	Elementor	Agents & Automation	3.1	18	100,000	2026-08-31	No CVE	freemium	80
108	ChatBot.com Conversational AI Support	Text	Chatbots	3.7	10	1,000	2026-08-03	No CVE	free	80
109	AI Provider for Anthropic	WordPress.org	Agents & Automation	0	0	50,000	2026-08-18	No CVE	free	79
110	Koala AI	Koala AI	SEO	5	1	1,000	2026-06-01	No CVE	freemium	79
111	AI Bud - AI Content Generator	WebFactory	Content & Writing	4.5	23	2,000	2026-08-16	UNPATCHED	freemium	78
112	EazyDocs	Spider Themes	Design & Builders	4.7	99	2,000	2026-08-27	Patched	free	78
113	Offload, AI & Optimize with Cloudflare Images	Anton Vanyukov	Image & Alt Text	4.9	33	1,000	2026-06-07	Patched	free	78
114	Schema Engine AI	RadiusTheme	SEO	4.8	25	10,000	2026-08-23	Patched	freemium	77
115	AI Copilot	quadlayers	Content & Writing	4.2	6	1,000	2026-08-24	UNPATCHED	freemium	77
116	FormGent	wpWax	Chatbots	4.4	7	1,000	2026-09-03	UNPATCHED	free	77
117	Geeky Bot	ahmadgb	Chatbots	5	4	6,000	2026-09-01	Patched	freemium	76
118	Generate Images (AI)	Alexandre Gaboriau	Image & Alt Text	4.3	25	5,000	2026-08-24	Patched	free	76
119	AutoWP - AI Content Writer & Rewriter	Basar Ventures	Content & Writing	3.8	15	1,000	2026-08-18	UNPATCHED	freemium	76
120	Arvow AI SEO Writer	Afonso Matos	SEO	2.3	3	1,000	2026-07-28	Patched	free	76
121	AI Powered Marketing	kliken	Marketing & Email	2.7	29	50,000	2026-05-20	No CVE	free	75
122	Trinity Audio	sergiotrinity	Agents & Automation	4	25	2,000	2026-09-10	Patched	free	75
123	WP Wand - Unlimited Content Generation using…	WP Grids	Content & Writing	3.8	10	1,000	2026-08-01	UNPATCHED	freemium	73
124	Product Enquiry for WooCommerce (Now with AI…	WisdmLabs	eCommerce	4.1	68	10,000	2026-06-22	Patched	free	72
125	CF7 Mate	Fahim Reza	Forms	3.9	46	20,000	2026-06-28	Patched	free	71
126	Smartsupp	Smartsupp	Chatbots	4.7	131	20,000	2025-12-08	Patched	freemium	65
127	AutoPen - AI Content Writer	Md Latiful Khabir Khan Imran	Forms	0	0	4,000	2025-10-14	No CVE	free	65
128	ClickRank	ClickRank.ai	SEO	3.7	3	1,000	2025-11-06	No CVE	free	65
129	AI Agent by SiteGround	SiteGround	Agents & Automation	1.6	96	1,000,000	2026-09-03	Patched	free	64
130	Soro - SEO Autopilot & AI Content Writer	soroseo	SEO	5	2	10,000	2026-04-23	No CVE	free	64
131	Known Agents	Known Agents	AI Visibility	4.8	6	1,000	2026-05-14	No CVE	free	64
132	Smart Related Products	sharkthemes	eCommerce	5	1	1,000	2026-05-07	UNPATCHED	freemium	61
133	AIKO - AI Developer Lite	boldthemes	Other	0	0	6,000	2025-07-18	No CVE	free	55
134	AppScenic	AppScenic	eCommerce	4	4	3,000	2025-01-13	No CVE	free	55
135	Greenshift Smart Code AI	wpsoul	Design & Builders	5	1	1,000	2025-05-24	No CVE	free	55
136	LLM Bot Tracker	Hueston	AI Visibility	3	2	1,000	2025-09-24	No CVE	free	54

How do you add AI to WordPress?

Install a plugin. Pick one from the category sections above, install it from Plugins > Add New in your dashboard, and connect it to an AI provider.

Most support OpenAI, and many now support Google, Anthropic and others, so check the provider table above against whichever API account you already have. You do not need to rebuild your site.

My checklist before activating any AI plugin on a live site:

1. Check the unpatched security status. Not the CVE count, the open count. This report’s Security column gives it directly.
2. Check the last update date. More than a year and I do not install it, which rules out 3 of the 136 plugins here.
3. Check it is tested against WordPress 7. 14 are not yet.
4. Read the rating count, not the rating. 37 plugins have fewer than ten ratings.
5. Check which provider it supports before you buy API credits you cannot use.
6. Test on staging first if it writes content. An AI plugin with post-creation rights can make a lot of changes quickly.

Are AI WordPress plugins free? More often than people assume. 90 of 136 (66%) are genuinely free, and 46 (34%) are freemium, where the plugin is free but heavier AI usage needs credits or a paid tier. Note that “free” here refers to the plugin: you still normally supply your own AI provider API key, and that provider bills you for usage.

What this data says about AI on WordPress

Five conclusions, all checkable against the tables above:

1. Security is the only signal that meaningfully separates these plugins. 65% have a CVE history, 49 of those CVEs were Critical, and 8 plugins are unpatched today. Ratings and install counts cannot tell you any of that.
2. Popularity and quality are different lists. The most-installed plugin has 10,000,000 installs; the quality leader has 1,000. Any ranking that fuses the two is hiding one of them.
3. The installed base belongs to plugins that added AI, not to AI-first plugins. SEO is 60.5% of installs, and Yoast SEO alone is 36.8%.
4. Growth is in agents and AI control, not chat. MCP connectors and AI-crawler tooling lead the download trend, while Chatbots, with 21 plugins, holds 1.2% of installs.
5. WordPress maintains itself better than the browser stores do. Median 10 days since update and only 3 plugins over a year stale, against fifteen on Chrome.

“The reason this report has a security section and the browser-extension ones do not is simply that WordPress lets you check. Two in three of these plugins have a disclosed vulnerability in their history, and that is fine, it means somebody looked. The six with an unpatched issue today are the ones that should change your decision, and you would never learn which six from a star rating. If you take one habit from this page, make it reading the open-vulnerability column before the rating.”
Alston Antony, founder of zplatform.ai and Senior Digital Marketing Manager at Brainstorm Force

Adding AI to your browser rather than your site? The AI Chrome extensions report and AI Firefox add-ons report apply the same approach to browser stores.

For AI wired into your coding tools, see the ranked MCP servers directory. More data-backed roundups sit in best AI tools.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I add AI to WordPress?

Install an AI plugin. To add a chatbot, content generation, translation or SEO assistance to an existing WordPress site, pick a plugin from the category sections above, install it from your dashboard, and connect it to an AI provider. You do not need to rebuild your site, and you normally supply your own API key.

What is the best AI chatbot plugin for WordPress?

Chatbots is the most competitive category here, with 21 plugins holding just 1.2% of installs, so there is no single answer. Use the chatbot section above, which ranks them by quality score, and prefer one that connects to multiple AI providers and grounds answers in your own content rather than generating freely.

Are AI WordPress plugins safe?

65% have had a vulnerability disclosed, but only 8 of 136 carry an unpatched one today. A CVE history usually signals that researchers are looking and the author is fixing. Check the unpatched status and the last update date before installing, and remember that AI plugins typically request database and content write access.

Are AI WordPress plugins free?

90 of 136 (66%) are genuinely free and 46 are freemium, where heavier AI usage needs credits or a paid tier. In nearly all cases you also supply your own AI provider key, so the provider bills you separately for usage even when the plugin costs nothing.

Which AI is best for WordPress development?

Plugins that expose REST endpoints and MCP support are the most developer-friendly, because they let assistants like Claude and ChatGPT interact with your site directly. The Agents and Automation and AI Visibility categories above list the current MCP connectors, and they are the fastest-growing part of this directory by download trend.

How often is this AI plugins list updated?

The dataset is rebuilt from WordPress.org and Wordfence and republished here, with the pull date shown at the top of the page. The download-trend figures do not depend on how often we refresh: WordPress.org publishes each plugin’s daily download counts, so the 30-day comparison is recomputed from its full history on every build.

Methodology and how to cite this data

Sources: plugin identity, active installs, ratings and compatibility from the WordPress.org Plugin API; daily download counts from WordPress.org download stats; security from the Wordfence Intelligence vulnerability feed; release history from each plugin’s readme. Every figure on this page is derived from the data as it stood on 11 September 2026, and the download trend from WordPress.org’s own daily counts for the 60 days before it.

Sample: 136 plugins, 27,181,000 combined active installs, 78,271 ratings, 110 authors, 12 categories, 960 CVEs on record.

Ranking formula: Quality Score = 35% maintenance (update recency and current-WordPress compatibility) + 30% rating quality (WordPress.org rating, adjusted so low review counts cannot dominate) + 20% security (known unpatched vulnerabilities) + 15% support (resolved-thread rate on WordPress.org). Active installs are deliberately excluded.

Inclusion: automatic. Every plugin whose WordPress.org title uses the word “AI” and that has at least 1,000 active installs, refreshed so new entrants appear on their own. A short manual exclusion list removes false matches, and categories are auto-assigned from each listing and hand-corrected for notable plugins.

Stated limitations: active installs are WordPress.org rounded ranges, never exact, so growth is derived from download counts instead. Ratings are converted from a 0-100 scale to X.X out of 5 and never mixed between scales.

Download trend uses median daily downloads over 30 days versus the prior 30, and low-volume plugins show no trend rather than a noisy figure; 2 plugins fall into that group. Support scores exist for 82 plugins only, and the other 54 are treated neutrally.

No paid placement: no plugin paid for inclusion, position, or a higher score, and no affiliate link influences the order.

Cite as: zplatform.ai, “Best AI WordPress Plugins: Real Usage and Security Data,” data pulled 11 September 2026.

Every number on this page traces to a row in the tables above, which is the point of publishing the formula next to the ranking. The best AI plugins for WordPress depend on the job you need done and the risk you are willing to carry, and you should be able to check my working instead of taking my word for it.