Best Premium And Commerical WordPress Plugins Reviewed

Premium WP Plugins Collage Commercial WordPress plugins offer lots of great benefits over free plugins such as great support and better functionality. Below is a review list of all the best premium plugins that are available for WordPress. These WP plugins below are not listed in any specific order. If you own a commercial WordPress plugin and would like for us to add it to the list, just send us an email and we’ll review it for inclusion.

WishList Products – Previously known as WPWishlist, WishList Products offers their flagship plugin called WishList Member to easily allow WordPress owners to turn their blog into a full blown membership website. Their WordPress membership plugin is priced at $97 for a single license and $297 for use on an unlimited number of domains. Both options include a 30-day money back guarantee, free updates, and 3 months of support. Below are some of the great features that the WishList Member plugin includes.

Wishlist Member Features

Easy installation
Create multiple membership levels
Total control of all your community’s content
Ability to integrate shopping carts
Management of community members
Multiple levels of access
Private RSS feeds
Assign subscription length
Trial display for potential subscribers
Customizable error pages

The Wishlist Member plugin also comes with 30 instructional training videos to help you quickly learn how to use the plugin and adjust the plethora of options. These include, blacklisting members, importing and exporting members, integration of multiple payment gateways (PayPal, 1ShoppingCart, Quick Pay Pro, ClickBank), AWeber installation, integration of AutoResponse Plus, and much more.

WP eMember – A WP premium plugin that permits you to create your own WordPress based membership website. This WP membership plugin allows you to restrict articles and other members-only content with great ease.

WP eMember Features

Installs just like other WP plugins
Ability to create multiple membership levels
Totally block or restrict access to specific content
Works with your current WordPress theme
No design changes necessary
Affiliate integration lets users earn commissions for new member signups
Works with WP eStore plugin
Free support
Free updates

A one-time fee of $39.95 will get you access to the plugin and the support forums. Discounts are available if you bundle this membership plugin with other plugins (WP eStore, WP Affiliate Software), software, or themes provided by the developer.

Gravity Forms – A commercial WordPress plugin that manages all your WordPress form needs. Not only does it allow you to create, edit, and manage forms but the versatility of the plugin permits you to do so much more. The Gravity Forms WP plugin is without a doubt the best forms plugin we’ve ever seen. It’s light years ahead of the most popular form plugins for WordPress (cforms II, Contact Form 7).

Gravity Forms Features

Fast and simple installation
Embed forms into posts or pages
Dashboard view of entry summaries
Create autoresponder emails
Integrates with other popular plugins
Built-in reCAPTCHA
Permits users to create posts
Ability to export data

Unlike some other form plugins, you don’t have to know any programming languages to create and edit your forms. It’s as simple as clicking on whatever you want to add to your forms and naming them. The Gravity Forms plugin is priced at $39 per single site support license, $99 for the multi-site (up to 5) support license, and $199 for the developer (unlimited sites) support license. All licenses come with automatic upgrades and free online support.

WP Review Engine – A premium WordPress plugin that lets you create an affiliate powered review website. This commercial plugin allows you to easily create stunning product and service reviews posts with integrated thumbnail images, affiliate links, ratings, and custom fields. The WPReviewEngine plugin for WordPress is easy to use and comes with many features.

WP Review Engine Features

Simple installation
Comparison tables
Google Maps integration
Autogeneration of comments
Ability to import data
Compatible with any theme
Sidebar widgets
Change order of reviews
Tracking stats

You can obtain a single site license of the WP Review Engine plugin for only $99.95 or buy an unlimited license to use on an unlimited number of websites for $169.95. Each license includes lifetime technical support and a 30-day money back guarantee.

WP Review Site – This commercial WordPress plugin turns your WP-powered website into a content rich affiliate based review site to target any niche market (i.e. guns, web hosting, mp3 players, etc.). The plugin can be used as a standalone WordPress website or it can be easily implemented into your current blog to add stars ratings to your review posts. Below are some of the current features that the WP Review Site plugin offers.

WP Review Site Features

Quick and easy installation
Star ratings
Comparison table generation
Flexible display options
Sidebar widgets
Affiliate link management
Includes WordPress themes
Compatible with your own theme
Ability to change order of reviews

The WP Review Site plugin offers three separate licenses; a single site license ($97), multi-site license ($199), and a developer license ($299). Additional options include a My Ratings add-on and a Premium Theme Pack add-on. Each license includes free technical support and lifetime upgrades.

reviewsPRESS – A commercial WP plugin that adds on the ability for you and your visitors rate and review products. reviewsPRESS helps you turn your WordPress site into a professional product review website by just installing their WP plugin.

reviewsPRESS Features

Author and visitors can rate and review products
Quick and easy installation
Comparison charts
Weighted scores for ratings
Top rated product floats to top
Fraud prevention technology
Ability to set rating categories
Require ratings with new comments
Show average ratings
Show number of positive and negative ratings
Ratings recalculate when comments are deleted
Multiple custom themes

The reviewsPRESS review plugin for WordPress is flexible and easy to install. With their multiple themes, you can choose the best look for your review site needs. Just like any other WP theme you can further customize your review website. Starting at $19.95 per license, reviewsPRESS is one of the least expensive WP review plugins available. You can install reviewsPRESS on an unlimited number of sites. However, if you indeed plan to use this plugin for multiple sites you may want to grab the 5 themes bundle for $89.95 so they don’t all look the same. Your reviewsPRESS plugin comes with a 30-day money back guarantee, free support, and lifetime upgrades.

Review Plugin For WordPress – A premium WP plugin that provides the ability to instantly create a product review site by importing large amounts of data straight into your WordPress website. The ability to import product details gives this WP review plugin a leg up on the competition.

WFReview Features

Simple and easy installation
Import CSV files and custom fields
Import tags and subcategories
Generate automatic ratings
Set ratings categories
Google Maps integration
Comparison tables
Traffic analytics integration
Customize ratings icons
Theme support
Sidebar widgets

Unlike most WP review plugins, the Review Plugin For WordPress allows you to import tons of product data as well as other data in addition to allowing visitors to rate and review products. The cost of the plugin is $139 per license and you can install it in an unlimited number of WP sites. Your WFReview plugin includes free upgrades for life and instant live, online support via chat, instant messenger, forums, video tutorials, and Skype.

Autoblogged – This commercial WordPress plugin allows you to automatically create blog posts from any RSS feed. While autoblogging often gets a bad wrap from scraper sites, if it’s used according to ethical publishing standards it can be very useful for both visitors and the original post’s author. Autoblogging is frequently used to create news sites akin to Digg and Reddit. Below are some of the current features that the Autoblogged plugin offers.

Autoblogged Features

Easy WordPress integration
Add multiple RSS feed sources
Supports multiple feed formats (RSS, Atom, etc.)
Feed caching
Pre-defined searches to locate news articles
RSS autodiscovery
Limit the number of posts/feed
Auto-created text excerpts
Post filtering
Assign categories or subcategories to feeds
Attribute posts to the original author
Post templates

The Autoblogged plugin includes free support and free lifetime upgrades. Support is provided via reference guides, manuals, email, and forums. Three different licenses are offered for the Autoblogged plugins; a single site license ($59.95), multi-site license ($129.95), and developer license ($389). In addition to the basic support services, the developer license includes priority support, IM support, high priority feature requests, and sublicensing.

WP Robot – A premium WordPress plugin that permits the administrator to automatically add content and posts to his/her WordPress blog. Currently this premium autoblogging plugin can add, translate, and rewrite content from RSS feeds, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, YouTube, Flickr, and ClickBank.

WP Robot Features

Simple installation and setup
Quick creation of posts
Multiple keyword posts
Link tracking
Randomize post time
Backdating for posts
Bulk keyword additions
Set the category per post
Schedule posts on a keyword basis every set number of hours/days
Add-on modules to extend functionality
Automatic tag creation per post

The WP Robot plugin comes with free support via their support forum and free upgrades. Two standalone licenses are available for the WP Robot plugin which include the Advanced Core license ($15) and the Elite Core license ($30). There’s also several modules that extend the functionality of the core plugins with prices for these modules ranging from $10 to $40 each. Full package bundles that include all modules ($169) or custom package bundles offer the customer considerable savings in contrast to purchasing the modules individually. All WP Robot purchases come will a no risk 14-day money-back guarantee.

ClassiPress – A premium classified ads theme that essentially operates on its own premium WordPress plugin to enable the admin to easily create a classifieds website in just a few minutes. ClassiPress has a very simple yet elegant design on both the frontend as well as the administration panel. So while users can easily create content rich classified ads that shine, the admin can just as easily adjust user rights and moderate content that’s submitted.

ClassiPress Features

Easy turnkey installation and setup
Integrated with PayPal
Free classified ads setting
Image uploading
Automatically remove classifieds when they expire
Create multiple categories and subcategories
User reporting for inappopriate ad listings
Support for multiple languages
Google AdSense and advertising placements
Google Analytics field to drop-in your code
Classified ads counter for every ad created
Multiple theme templates in various colors
Email notifications
Advertising plugin to host sponsored ads

ClassiPress support is provided through user forums and each purchase includes free lifetime upgrades. There are three licenses currently offered for ClassiPress; a single use license with footer credit link ($59), a single use license without footer credit link ($79), and a developer license ($149).

SiteMile Classified Ads – A WordPress classifieds theme that converts your WP blog into a full service classified ads site. This turnkey solution will work straight out of the box but you can also customize it to fit your specific needs.

SiteMile Classifieds Theme Features

Quick plug and play installation
Ability for admin to edit, create, remove ads
Users can edit, pause, upgrade, delete, or pay for ads
Supports multiple languages
Integrated with Google Maps and Google Analytics
Multiple currencies support
PayPal integration
Comments for each classified ad
Auto deletion of old ads
Reporting for inappropriate ads
Set custom fees for featured and categorized ads
Supports custom fields
User panel with settings

Buying the WordPress Classified Ads theme by SiteMile will get you lifetime support and free access to any future updates. The theme is available as a Single License ($49), Mixed License ($69), and a Developer license ($129). Support for this classifieds theme is provided through the SiteMile support forums.

phpBay – A premium WP plugin that permits you to turn any WordPress blog into a powerful eBay affiliate niche website. Akin to the popular eBay niche script known as BANS, phpBay leverages the power of WordPress to help you get your own store up and running on no time. Below are some of the current features that the phpBay plugin offers.

phpBay Pro Features

Easy installation
Ability to display products in rows or columns
Set a minimum and/or maximum number of bids
Set a minimum and/or maximum price
Ability to exclude items according to keywords
Ability to list items according to zip code
Optimized for search engine traffic
Ability to list items by keywords
Ability to list items by category number
Compatible with eBay Partner Network and other affiliate/ad networks
Ability to list item from any given eBay seller
Affiliate URLs and images links

phpBay offers two version of their WordPress plugin; a free version (phpBay Lite) and a premium version (phpBay Pro). phpBay Lite is very limited in what it can do but phpBay Pro contains all the bells and whistles to help you succeed with your online eBay store. phpBay Pro is priced at $79 and you can install it on as many domains as you want. It also comes with free lifetime support via their members only forums, email, comprehensive manual, and video tutorials.

WP Affiliate Pro – A commercial plugin that helps you manage and track all your links on WordPress. The plugin is easy to add to your WordPress blog and doesn’t require any changes to your theme or other plugins. Below are a few of the features that WP Affiliate Pro includes.

WP Affiliate Pro Features

Track how many clicks each link receives
Redirect links
Customize the style and color of links easily
Set the number of links per page
Easily create auto links for new promotions

WP Affiliate Pro is priced at $97 and comes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee or you’ll get your money back. If you try the plugin for 56 days and you’re not completely satisfied then just simply file for the refund and your money will be returned to you in full. WP Affiliate Pro comes with free support via tutorial videos, email, and live chat. If you have problems installing the plugin for some reason, they’ll even install it for you!

Ninja Affiliate – A premium WP plugin to help you optimize your links on your blog and track how many clicks each one gets. The plugin is really easy to use and comes with lots of options. Below are a few of the features that Ninja Affiliate offers.

Ninja Affiliate Features

Quick auto-linking ability
Prevent link theft
Easy management of all website links
Ability to follow or nofollow links
Link grouping
Create and edit subcampaigns
Click tracking stats

Ninja Affiliate costs $97 and you can install it on as many WordPress sites/blogs as you want. It comes with a 60-day money back guarantee, free lifetime upgrades, and 24/7 support provided by email and user forums.

MediaTricks – They provide a line of WordPress plugins known as Viva Plugins for WordPress to help you improve the look and feel of your blog. Below is a full list of all the premium WP plugins they offer.

Viva Plugins for WordPress

Viva Blogpins – Adds a Google Map with built-in geotagging to your blog
Viva Carousel (Gallery Edition) – Adds a sliding photo gallery to your WordPress site
Viva Carousel (Posts Edition) – Carousel displays recent posts
Viva Thumbs – Easily create and add thumbnail images to your blog
Viva Viral User Pics – Allows visitors to submit images for the carousel placed on your blog’s homepage
Viva Zoom – Adds pop-up magnification functionality to your thumbnails

wpSEO – This is an excellent WordPress plugin that allows you to go above and beyond what the free All-in-One SEO Pack plugin permits. With over 70 different options starting at only $24.99 and a free 10-day trial, you’d be a fool not to check it out. wpSEO is compatible with other popular plugins such as Simple Tags, Simple Tagging Plugin, and Ultimate Tag Warrior. Below is a list of some of the great options that come with the plugin.

wpSEO Features

Multiple licensing options
Great support
Free updates
Speedy update releases for new versions of WordPress
Easy setup and activation of the plugin
No need to change your .htaccess file
No need to setup additional databases
Prevent duplicate content penalties by Google
Extremely fast execution rates
Importing of data from All-in-One SEO Pack
Export and import of settings
Supports English and German languages
Supports Language Switcher Plugin
Supports HTML 5

wpSEO covers all SEO concerns for a post/page such as title, description, tags, categories, tag descriptions, category descriptions, page numeration, author name, and keywords. But it goes far beyond those basics with auto generation of keywords, descriptions, and tags. Other great features include HTML highlighting, canonical tag, robots tag, Feedburner stats, per-page monitoring of SEO scoring information (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Yahoo Backlinks), AdSense Highlighting, ODP snippet, noarchive snippet, noindexing for RSS feeds, changing the order of meta tags, manual assignment of 301-redirects, and much more.

WordPress e-Commerce – This premium WordPress plugin is an ecommerce solution for selling products from your WordPress based website/blog. The basic plugin is free to download and more functionality can be tacked on by purchasing one of the many plugin modules. Such extra functionality includes more payment gateways (Gold Cart & Grid Module), grid views for product sets (Gold Module), drag and drop shopping cart (DropShop 2.0 Module), a music player (MP3 Player Module), horizontal product viewer (Product Slider Module), private membership (Members Only Module), and buy now product buttons (NextGEN Gallery Buy Now Buttons Module).

WP e-Commerce Basic Features

Tagging for products
Product search
Design templates
Grid layouts
WordPress shortcodes
Customization via CSS
Promotional tools and newsletters
Downloadable products
Multiple payment options for customers
Shipping calculation tools
Post order management tools
Reporting and accounting tools
Product catalogs
Online sales and marketing tools
Google Base submission
Shopping search engines submission
Facebook marketplace submission

The WP e-Commerce plugin includes free technical support and free lifetime upgrades. Support is provided by the staff’s documentation and via the community forums. Pricing for modules varies accordingly: Gold Cart & Grid Module ($40), Gold Module ($15), DropShop 2.0 Module ($100), MP3 Player Module ($10), Product Slider Module ($25), Members Only Module ($25), NextGEN Gallery Buy Now Buttons Module ($10).

PHPurchase – This is a premium Wordpress plugin that provides an shopping cart for selling digital downloads or physical products created by PHPoet. Using this commercial WP plugin, you can effectively turn you Wordpress blog into a standalone online ecommerce store.

PHPurchase Features

Easy installation
Management of orders
Create and offer promotional discounts
Multiple shipping options (FedEx, USPS, etc.)
Set prices per shipping method
Set prices per product
Set prices per cart amount
Sell both physical and digital products
Customize storefront appearance
Supports multiple payment gateways (PayPal, Authorize.net, etc.)

The PHPurchase e-commerce plugin for WordPress can be installed by anyone. You don’t have to be a programming wizard to customize look and feel of your store or just change something as simple as an “add to cart” image. The PHPurchase shopping cart plugin for WordPress is priced at $49 per single site license. If you want a discount for multiple site installations you’ll need to contact them. Currently all licenses come with lifetime upgrades and free support that’s provided via live online chat, email, and video tutorials.

Shopp – This premium WordPress plugin adds a fully functional online store to your website in just a few minutes. The plugin is very flexibility and it comes with many tools that allow you to totally customize your e-commerce marketplace.

Shopp Plugin Features

Quick and easy installation
Email order notifications
SEO-optimized product pages
RSS feeds for categories
Sidebar shopping cart
Product search
Compatible with any WP theme
Compatible with most WP plugins
Fully functional shopping cart
Ability to track sales and marketing
Product and category shortcodes
Product category creation and management
Digital product sales and management
Easily export sales data

The Shopp plugin permits integration of several payment gateways such as PayPal Express Checkout, Google Checkout, PayPal Website Payments Pro, Authorize.net, FirstData/LinkPoint, HSBC ePayments, eWay Payments, and iDEAL. Other notable features and benefits include built-in shipping rate calculations (FedEx, UPS, USPS, Canada Post) and a promotional toolset to offer customer discounts, promotional codes, and coupons. The core plugin is priced at $55 per single license, $299 per developer license, $25 per shipping add-on, and $25 per payment gateway add-on.

WP eStore – A premium WordPress plugin to sell digital goods and services from the comfort of your own WP site. With this WP premium plugin you can avoid paying monthly fees and commissions to third party product vendors that commonly serve digital downloads for software creators.

WP eStore Features

Easy setup and installation
Time dependent, encrypted download links for products
One-click checkout with several payment gateways
Integration with NextGen Gallery
WP eMember integration
Works with WordPress affiliate platform plugin
AWeber integration
Payment notifications
Supports multiple currencies
Shopping cart
Coupons, codes, and discounts
Can integrate with WishList Membership plugin

Purchase of the WP eStore plugin includes support via a support forum and extensive documentation. The plugin itself will cost you merely $34.95 for a single license and may be bundled with other plugins for extra savings. If you require help setting up WP eStore, you can buy the professional installation service that includes the initial setup and testing of the plugin for $25.

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