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.
Premium WordPress Plugins – Below are the types of premium WordPress plugins listed here. Simply click on the link and you’ll be taken to that category. To return to the top of the category list, click on your browser’s back button.
- Advertising plugins
- Affiliate plugins
- Affiliate software plugins
- Autoblogging plugins
- Backup plugins
- Classified ads plugins
- Comment plugins
- Copywriting plugins
- Coupon plugins
- Directory plugins
- eBay plugins
- FAQ plugins
- Form plugins
- Job board plugins
- Membership plugins
- Newsletter plugins
- Price comparison plugins
- Question & answer plugins
- Rating plugins
- Review plugins
- SEO plugins
- Shopping cart plugins
- Slideshow plugins
- Squeeze page plugins
- Subscription plugins
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.
Magic Members – A premium WordPress membership plugin that allows you to create a closed site that’s only available to paying members. It offers lots of great features to totally customize your WP site and transform it into a professional premium content members-only website that’s easy to use. Magic Members also allows you to sell your posts and downloads separately.
Magic Members Features
- Simple integration and easy setup
- Ability to create several membership levels
- Multiple payment options (PayPal, Authorize.net, etc.)
- Coupon generator
- Membership subscription settings
- Control membership landing pages
- Content protection
- Limit access to specific content for certain membership levels
- Charge non-members on a per content basis
- Protected RSS feeds
- Download management
- Autoresponders
- Prevent login sharing
Magic Members comes with free unlimited support for one year and a 30-day no-risk guarantee. The Magic Members membership plugin is available in three licenses; a single license that allows you to install the plugin on one domain ($97), a 3-users license ($197), and an Unlimited license ($297). All licenses include access to customer service, training videos, and support guides.
CMS Members – A WordPress premium plugin that converts your WP blog into a professional looking membership site. Just as the name implies, CMS Members extends the functionality of your basic WordPress install to act much like a content management system (CMS) with built-in e-commerce solutions.
CMS Members Features
- Manage unlimited number of membership plans and members
- Accept PayPal and credit card payments
- Create custom fields
- Protected RSS feeds for members only
- Restrict content to non-paying members
- Integrated AWeber newsletter
- Create and customize forms
- Payment fraud protection and spam prevention
- Integrated affiliate program for your members
- Compatible with WordPress MU and BuddyPress too
WP Wave offers support for their CMS Members plugin through a forum and a helpdesk that addresses support tickets. There two licenses avaiable for the CMS Members plugin; a WordPress version ($59.50) and a WordPress MU version ($189).
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.
Formidable Pro – This is a flexible WordPress premium plugin that allows the admin to easily create forms to serve as a point of contact as well as a variety of things such as polls, surveys, and much more. Listed below are some of the great features the Formidable Pro plugin has to offer.
Formidable Pro Features
- Quick setup
- Create contact forms
- Manage data collected via your forms
- Ability for users to edit submissions
- Populate fields automatically
- Hide or display fields conditionally
- Automatic updates
- Totally customizeable via HTML and plugin hooks
- Professional level form styling
- Graphical reports
- Multi-paged form creation abilities
Formidable Pro is available in two licenses; Formidable Pro ($35) and Formidable Pro Unlimited ($97). The Formidable Pro license allows the buyer to install the plugin on one site whereas the Formidable Pro Unlimited license let you add the plugin to an unlimited number of websites. The Formidable Pro Unlimited buyer also gains access to the Pro Support Forum. Both licenses include a 30-day money back guarantee and lifetime updates.
AJAX Contact Forms – A slick jQuery-based premium WordPress contact form plugin powered by AJAX that brings style to your plain contact form and reduces page loading. While it’s not as elaborate as the Gravity Forms plugin it gets the job done and makes for a nice upgrade from your free contact form plugin.
AJAX Contact Forms Features
- AJAX integration
- Notifications via Twitter DM
- Notifications via email
- Simple integration with existing WP site
- Captcha to prevent spam
- Create unlimited forms
- Thank you page after successful submission
- Error page when field isn’t filled
- Set fields to require input
- Drop-in forms using shortcodes
- Plugin can be modified to fit your needs
A single license for the AJAX Contact Forms plugin costs only $12. Support for the plugin is handled through comments on the sales page and direct email with the creator.
Scribe – A WordPress premium plugin that helps you enhance your copywriting skills by evaluating your content’s SEO. The plugin helps to ensure your articles and press releases are search engine optimized (SEO) to perform well and therefore increase visitor traffic to your website.
Scribe SEO Features
- Quick and easy installation
- Fast copywriting analysis
- Identifies potential search engine response
- Removes guesswork involved with optimizing copywrite
- Provides suggested keyword changes
- Utilizes best practices for optimizing web pages
- Preserves article quality and readability
- Helps you improve your ability to target traffic
Scribe SEO offers a 30-day risk free guarantee such that if you’re not completely satisfied with your purchase you can get a full refund. Customer support is provided through the Scribe website for paying members. There are three service plans currently available; the Starter plan ($27/month), Publisher plan ($47/month), and the Advanced plan ($97/month).
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.
WordPress Classified Ads Plugin
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).
Classifieds Theme – A premium WordPress classifieds plugin and theme that transforms your plain old WordPress blog into a powerful classified ads website. Classifieds Theme is a professionally designed theme with a beautiful layout that’s sure to impress your visitors. It comes stocked with several ways to monetize your site like the ability to charge users for featured classifieds and AdSense integration. Below is a list of some of the other features the Classifieds Theme offers.
Classifieds Theme Features
- Simple setup
- Import Amazon, eBay, CSV, Datafeedr content
- Supports multiple languages
- Easy ad setup via Google AdSense
- Visitor tracking via Google Analytics
- Image upload tool
- Photo cropping utility
- Google Maps
- Charge users for classifieds
- Automatic expiration of classified ads
- Integrated with multiple payment gateways
- Multiple classified ad templates
- Easily manage ads
A premium WordPress Classifieds Theme license costs $79 and it includes unlimited installations, free lifetime updates, and free support. Classified Theme owners have access to video tutorials, written manuals, and a support ticket system in case of any issues that may arise.
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.
Pretty Link Pro – A WordPress premium plugin for creating affiliate links and shortening URLs. The name Pretty Link refers to the ability of the plugin to generate a more attractive link structure (example.com/the-link-name). The plugin contains powerful link management tools to track the number of clicks each link generates as well as some social bookmarking and sharing tools.
Pretty Link Pro Features
- Shorten links on your own domain
- Track your links
- Group and sort your links
- Import and export your website’s links
- Auto-replace and link to keywords throughout your site
- Automatically generate shortened URL and send tweets when new articles are published
- Includes social bookmarking buttons you can add to your site
- Pretty Link Pro PrettyBar toolbar that sits at the top of your site
The Pretty Link Pro plugin includes free lifetime updates and a 30-day money back guarantee. Customer support for the plugin is accessible through email and the plugin itself can be purchased in two separate licenses; a single site license ($37) and an unlimited sites license ($97).
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.
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 Shopping Cart Plugin
ShopperPress – This premium WordPress shopping cart plugin comes with an entire theme to help you get your online store up and running in no time. It offers an intuitive administrative backend and an attractive user interface for selling products online.
ShopperPress Features
- Quick setup
- Drop in your Google Analytics code
- Works with multiple payment gateways
- Easily upload product images
- Product picture cropping
- Multiple designs
- Install on as many sites as you want
- Customization is easy
- Integrated with Google AdSense
- Includes tax and shipping settings
- Create coupons and promotional codes
- Import data via eBay, Amazon, Datafeedr, CSV
- Compatible with most WP plugins
- Set expiration dates for products/posts
- Support for several languages and currencies
- Articles section for creating non-product content
The ShopperPress theme is currently available for $79 and you can install it on as many domains as you wish. The purchase of a ShopperPress license includes free lifetime support and updates. Support is offered through video tutorials, manuals, and a support ticket system.
Cart66 – This is a premium WordPress plugin, previously known as PHPurchase, 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.
Cart66 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 Cart66 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 Cart66 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.
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.
WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin – A premium WordPress shopping cart plugin built by Tribulant that allows the WP blog admin to sell both digital and physical goods online plus any services the admin decides to offer. Such services may include online teaching courses, hands on training, premium support, or any other non-product related sales that are service oriented. Using this premium wordPress plugin you can easily find ways to monetize your WP blog whether it’s through selling digital products like ebooks, selling online services, or selling any tangible goods.
WordPress Shopping Cart Features
- Easy installation
- Payment plans
- Inventory tracking
- Promotions and coupon codes
- Custom product fields
- Multiple shipping options
- Affiliate platform integration
- Display products on post or page
- Multiple payment gateways
- Members only content
- Sell physical products
- Sell digital products
- Sell services
The premium WordPress shopping cart plugin by Tribulant includes free support that’s provided through email and phone as well as free lifetime updates. The plugin costs $49.99 for a single license and $249.95 to install it in all your own WP sites.
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.
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).
Standout Comments – A premium WordPress comment plugin that expands the functionality of your basic commenting form for WordPress to help increase your RSS and newsletter subscription. As the commenter prepares to submit his comment, he is presented with the opportunity to automatically subscribe to the blog by merely adding a check mark to one of the options listed under the commenting form. Other great features of this WP premium commenting plugin are listed below.
Standout Comments Features
- Simple installation and setup
- Newsletter subscription options
- Social bookmarking and sharing
- Integrated banner ad section
- Admin panel for easy management
- Tweetback URLs for trackback-like monitoring
- Twitter following integration
- Comment integrated RSS subscription via email option
Standout Comments support is provided through a support ticketing system and every plugin purchase includes a 30-day money back guarantee with free lifetime updates. The single site license costs $67 and it includes a membership to access the video tutorials and free upgrades for the plugin.
Direct Ads Market – A premium WordPress ad plugin that allows you to easily manage and sell banner ads, Twitter profile ads (i.e. like TwitterCounter), and Facebook profile ads on your website. The multiple ad types (banner/image, Twitter, Facebook) offer additional opportunities to monetize your website or reward loyal readers via a featured fans widget.
Direct Ads Market Plugin Features
- Simple plugin installation
- Sell banner ads, Twitter profile ads, Facebook profile ads
- Automatic payment processing via PayPal
- Ads expire automatically
- Sell ads by the minute, day, week, month, or year
- Display ads in any size you want
- Hold ads for moderation or automatically approve submissions
- Display and unlimited number of ads
- Display ads vertically or horizontally
- Ad submission notifications
- Display ads in a widget area or anywhere on your WP site
- Display ads conditionally (i.e. home, tags, categories, post/page ID)
- Set the number of ads that can be purchased or displayed
- Ad management panel
- Keeps track of how many clicks each ad acquires (click counts)
- Restrict ad submissions per URL
- Allow visitors to submit free ads too
The Direct Ads Market premium WordPress ad plugin is sold in three different licenses: single site ($49.95), multi-site (up to 3 sites; $89.95), and an unlimited sites license ($189.95). The plugin comes with free lifetime updates and support for all DAM members. Support is handled through the members forum and email.
Banner Rotator Plugin For WordPress – A premium banner ads plugin for WordPress to help you manage and organize advertisements across your WP websites. Administrators can easily upload multiple banner ad types to display and track the performance of all ads.
Banner Rotator Plugin Features
- Display several banner ads per widget
- Automatically refresh banners
- Track ad impressions
- Show an unlimited number of widgets
- Embed in both posts and pages
- Simply select and display default ad sizes
- Organize ads by sorting
- Track the number of clicks ads get
- Easily upload new banner ads
- Display image and flash based banner adverts
- Create multiple zones to display your banners
- Banner size management
- Adjust the background styling for ad placements
- Set a maximum number of impressions for ads
- Set an expiration date for any advertisement
- Preview banners before they go live
The Banner Rotator Plugin For WordPress is sold in a single-site license ($29.99) and it is available in for an unlimited number of websites for $129.95. All purchases include free lifetime updates and technical support which can be reached via live phone conversations and email messages.
OIO Publisher – This premium WordPress ad plugin is a complete solution for managing your WP site’s advertising inventory. You can host your own text or banner ads as well as run third party ad network based ads too.
OIO Publisher Features
- Quick and easy install
- Sell text ads
- Sell banner ads
- Display ads on any website
- Built-in affiliate program
- Sell digital products
- Automatic purchasing of ads
- Automatic expiration of ads
- Impression and click tracking
- Send weekly ad stats to advertisers
- Free marketplace listing
The OIO Publisher advertising plugin costs $47 and you can install it on an unlimited number of websites as long as you own them. Support is provided through the support forum, tutorials, and email.
EZAffiliateCash – A premium WordPress ad plugin that serves many different types of advertisements for your WP blog. From regular header or footer display ads to fancy interstitial ads, this premium WP advertising plugin can help you monetize nearly all the available opportunities on your WordPress website.
EZAffiliateCash Features
- Easy setup
- Header and footer display ads
- In-text ads
- Exit pop up ads
- Pop under ads
- Interstitial ads
- Top and bottom bar ads
- Autolink specific keywords throughout your WP site
- Set the number of links associated with an ad
- Assign or create your own ads
The EZAffiliateCash plugin costs $49.99 and comes with an unlimited license so you can install it on as many WordPress sites as you want. Purchase of the plugin also includes free support and lifetime updates.
JobPress – This premium WordPress job board plugin utilizes a built-in theme to deliver a professional level job board to your WP site. As an admin you can easily set the price per job posting and automatically collect PayPal payments for each job ad that’s posted.
JobPress Features
- Fast installation
- Set job ad prices
- Renew job ads
- Multiple currencies
- PayPal payments
- PayPal notifications
- Custom autoresponder messages for successful postings
- Auto publish job ads or manually approve them
- Security measures
- Filter job ads by tag and category
- Automatic expiration of job board ads
The JobPress plugin is available in two different licenses; a single site license ($79) and a developer license ($199) that allows you to use the theme on an unlimited number of websites. Support for the theme is handled via direct email messages with the JobPress sales team.
DirectoryPress – A premium WordPress directory plugin that transforms your plain WP install into a revenue generating professional online directory website. The script includes several different template themes that vary in color and layout which can be customized to fit nearly any need.
DirectoryPress Features
- Quick setup
- Google AdSense and Analytics integration
- Multipe payment gateway compatibility
- Automatic expiration of listings
- Supports multiple languages
- Extensive number of design templates
- Accept payments for listings
- Import DOMZ and CSV files
- Google Maps integration
- Website thumbnail images
- Star ratings system
Purchase of a DirectoryPress license permits you to install it in an unlimited number of sites. It’s currently priced at $79 and comes with free support and lifetime updates. Support is offered via a ticketing system, theme manuals, community forums, and video tutorials.
BackupBuddy – This premium WordPress backup plugin was created by iThemes, a well respected WordPress development team. The plugin automatically backs up your WP site to prevent any data or content loss in cases of server failure or security breaches.
BackupBuddy Features
- Effortless setup
- Backup of database, plugins, themes, all other files
- Restore you WP site
- Migrate your WordPress site
- Custom importer script for easy restoration
- Incremental backups
- Backup either daily, weekly, bi-monthly, monthly
- Store backup files via email or FTP
- Automatic plugin updates
The BackupBuddy plugin comes with a one year membership plan that includes unlimited support and free updates. License options for the BackupBuddy WP backup plugin include a personal ($25; 2 sites), business ($75; 10 sites), or a developer ($150; unlimited sites) license. Support for this premium WordPress backup plugin is served by way of iThemes online members forum.
Squeeze Theme – A premium WordPress squeeze page theme that makes the creation and editing of squeeze pages very simple. Squeeze pages are essentially well developed landing pages that are geared towards helping you grow your list of email subscribers.
Squeeze Theme Features
- Easy installation
- Theme management dashboard
- Dynamic color palette to easily changing theme colors
- Multiple layouts
- Embed inline videos
- Quickly insert inline images within your layout
- Elegant design
- Traffic stats tracking
- Form settings panel
- Simple interface for changing logos and display settings
The Squeeze Theme can be purchased for a one-time fee of $147 and it can be installed on an unlimited number of domains. Support for this WordPress squeeze page theme is provided through comprehensive video tutorials, guides, and a members forum.
Rating Plugin – A premium WordPress ratings plugin that can be integrated with product listings to allow your visitors to rate, vote, and review items. The large sharing buttons displayed next to the ratings and reviews interface is a great promotional tool for your site. It not only encourages visitors to share their ratings but each rating that’s shared redirects back to your website to bring you even more traffic.
Rating Plugin Features
- Fast and simple install
- Create micro posts within articles
- User generated promotion of your products and posts
- Social bookmarking and sharing buttons
- Auto ranking of micro posts by number of votes
- Allow users to comment
- Collect user voting data
- Permit visitors to rate
- Settings panel for creating and editing micro posts
- Easy management of quick comments
The Rating Plugin is available in three separate licenses; a single site license ($49.95; one website), a multi-site license ($99.95; 10 websites), and a developer license ($199.95; unlimited websites). Each license comes with free lifetime upgrades and email support.
Newsletter Booster – A premium WordPress newsletter plugin that inserts a small checkmark box in your WP comments form and registration form to encourage visitors, commenters, and new users to join your WordPress email newsletter. The plugin is a great tool for increasing your WP newsletter subscriber numbers and for further monetizing your WP site.
Newsletter Booster Features
- Fast integration
- Integrates with WP comments section
- Integrates with WP registration form
- Works with MailChimp
- Works with AWeber
- Works with email marketing services that permit URL signups
- Allows customization of newsletter signup
- Simple checkbox to sign-up users
- Simple and elegant design
- Seamless integration that’s complimentary to WP install
- Export all signups
- Email newsletter signup notifications
The Newsletter Booster WP plugin is priced at $49.95 and each license permits you to install it on one site. User support for this premium WordPress newsletter plugin is provided by a support ticket system, knowledge base, and a FAQ list.
WordPress Newsletter Plugin – A premium WordPress mailing list plugin created by Tribulant which allows the administrator to operate and distribute a email newsletter for your blog directly from WordPress. It offers all the comforts and features of a traditional online email subscription service but it’s a lot less expensive.
Tribulant Newsletter Plugin Features
- Fast installation
- Unlimited mailing lists
- Email history
- Newsletter scheduling
- Newsletter templates
- Email tracking
- AJAX interface
- Send posts as newsletters
- Subscription forms that can be embedded both on- and off-site
- Gmail SMTP support
- Ability to import or export email subscribers
- Paid email subscriptions via PayPal and 2Checkout
- Unlimited number of subscribers
- Subscriber IP logs
- Bounce handling
- POP/IMAP support
Tribulant’s premium WP newsletter plugin costs only $49.99/license for a single site installation and $249.95 to add the plugin to an unlimited number of websites that you own. Tribulant customer receive free lifetime updates for plugin purchases with support provide through email and phone calls.
CouponPress – A premium WordPress coupon plugin and theme that lets you easily turn your WP blog into a full blown coupon site. The design is very professional and the layout resembles that of RetailMeNot.com. Visitors can post coupon codes, rate them, and click to copy the codes for great discounts on products and services.
CouponPress Features
- Turnkey-like installation
- No domain limit
- Add Google Analytics code
- Ability to charge users to post coupons
- Sell/display ads by category
- Compatible with many popular WP plugins
- Sidebar and footer widgets
- Rate coupons
- Click-to-copy coupon codes
- Search coupons
- Import codes via CSV, ForMeToCoupon, iCodes
- Easily sell and manage ad space
- Multiple coupon templates
- Simple image uploading interface
- Image cropping
- Insert your Google AdSense code
The CouponPress premium WordPress coupon theme comes with unlimited site installations, free lifetime support and free upgrades. Customer support is provided through video tutorials, written guides, and support tickets. The CouponPress theme is currently priced at $79.
Slideshow Plugin – A premium WordPress slideshow plugin that empowers the administrator to create professional photo slideshows. The plugin offers a simple and elegant way to not only feature images but also text based content with links. The plugin even allows you to add music, slide descriptions, slide titles, location maps, and many more customizations for your photo gallery slideshow.
Slideshow Plugin Features
- Easy setup
- Create slide descriptions
- Add text and links to slides
- Easily change slide intervals
- Image uploads
- Location maps
- Arrange the order of slides
- Add slideshow to any post or page
- Shortcodes for embedding slideshows
- Display slideshows in landscape or portrait
- Command slideshow to loop or play once
- Integrate music with slideshows
There are three premium WordPress Slideshow Plugin licenses: single site ($19.95, install on up to 3 sites), multi site ($34.95, install on up to 10 sites), and developer ($59.95, unlimited number of site installations). Each license comes with free email support and free lifetime updates.
WordPress Affiliate Tracking Plugin
WordPress Affiliate Platform – A premium WordPress affiliate tracking plugin that allows you to run your own affiliate program on your wordPress website and avoid the service fees charged by large affiliate networks. Most popular affiliate management software applications do not integrate directly into WordPress without extensive modifications. The WordPress Affiliate Platform plugin, however, is just as easy to implement as any other WP plugin.
WP Affiliate Platform Plugin Features
- Plug and play WordPress integration
- Real-time tracking
- Multiple tiers
- Works seamlessly with WP eStore
- Integrates with many WordPress shopping carts
- Easily integrates with WishList Member plugin
- Unlimited number of affiliates
- Works with WP e-Commerce plugin
- Affiliate management interface
- Simple, straight forward user interface
- Upload banners and links for your affiliates
- Tracks all clicks, leads, and sales
A single site license for the WordPress Affiliate Platform plugin is available for only $39.95. Each software license comes with free support and free lifetime updates for existing customers. Customer support is provided via email and a members forum.
MagicAffiliate – This premium WordPress affiliate software plugin cuts out the affiliate network middleman to help you earn more while also giving full management capabilities over your affiliate members. As a WordPress plugin, it offers some distinct advantages. That is, the installation and setup is quick and easy compared to existing non-WP affiliate software solutions which usually require significant programming knowledge.
Magic Affiliate Plugin Features
- Simple installation
- Up-to-date reporting of clicks and sales
- 5-level tiers affiliate structure
- Reoccuring commissions
- Provide unlimited banner and text links
- Custom affiliate registration messages
- Personalized email templates
- Support for multiple languages
- Assign commission amounts per affiliate tier
- Works with Magic Members premium plugin
- WP e-Commerce integration
- No affiliate signup limitations
- Integrates with email marketing services
The MagicAffiliate premium WordPress affiliate plugin is priced at $79 for a single site license, $159 for a 3-user license, and $239 for use on an unlimited number of websites. Every license includes a 30-day money back guarantee, free unlimited support, and one year of unlimited updates. Customer support is provided via FAQs, video tutorials, troubleshooting guides, and support tickets.
WordPress Price Comparison Plugin
CompariPress – After installing this premium WordPress plugin into your WP blog you’ll be able to easily pull product information across different sources to compare prices like popular comparision pricing websites (e.g. ShopZilla, Shopping.com). When a visitor clicks on the “buy” or “info” button, they’ll be directed to the seller (e.g. Amazon, Overstock, Buy.com, etc.) where they can purchase the item. Everytime a purchase is made, you’ll receive a commission for it!
CompariPress Plugin Features
- Quick setup
- Easily select your affiliate networks
- Alter the color and size of buttons
- Change the width of your price comparison table
- Add merchant logos
- Display thumbnail images of products
- Daily auto-refresh of product prices
- Affiliate link protection settings
- Product search and filtering by keywords
- Product filtering by minimum and maximum price
- Filter products by affiliate network category
- Setting panel for customizing, styling price comparison charts
- Create an unlimited number of price comparisons
- Works with Amazon, LinkShare, Commission Junction, Overstock, Affiliate Window
The CompariPress premium WordPress price comparison plugin sells for $97 and you can install it on an unlimited number of websites that you own. Purchase of this premium WP plugin includes 12 months worth of free updates. A one month trial is also available for only $7. Customer support is free and it is handled through a ticketing system, a members forum, FAQs, and a knowledge base repository.
Subscribers Magnet – Created by MaxBlogPress, this premium WordPress plugin allows you to easily integrate email list sign-up forms into nearly every section of your current WP site. Doing so helps you grow your email based newsletter subscription and earn more revenue from your website. Growing a well targeted email subscription list is highly desired by online publishers because it’s one of the best marketing tools available, it increases the probability of additional purchases, and it encourages customer loyalty.
Subscribers Magnet Features
- Near effortless integration with your current WP site
- Works with all major email autoresponders (Aweber, MailChimp, GetResponse, etc.)
- Add opt-in signup form in posts or pages
- Add opt-in form to your sidebar
- Add opt-in form in the comments section
- Add opt-in form in the footer
- Automatically pulls the visitor’s name and email into the opt-in form
- Footer bar signup form with custom display settings
- Popin form with custom display settings
The Subscribers Magnet premium WordPress subscription plugin is currently available at an introductory price of $97 (usually $149). Purchase of this premium WP plugin includes a 60-day money back guarantee plus free lifetime plugin updates, upgrades, and support. Support is handled through member forums and email requests.
WordPress FAQ Plugin – This premium WordPress FAQ plugin created by Tribulant allows the WP admin to easily create and manage a frequently asked questions (FAQs) page. FAQ pages are one of the best lines of communication for your visitors. A well managed FAQ page will answer common questions related to your site and save you lots of time.
WP FAQ Plugin Features
- Quick and easy plugin installation
- Let users submit questions
- Customize settings for FAQs
- Group FAQ lists
- Manage FAQ groups
- Manage FAQs separately
- Compress/expand questions
- FAQ search
- FAQ widgets
- Moderate questions
- Notifications for submitted FAQs
- Integrated photo gallery
- Sort FAQs
- Captcha form
- Supports multiple languages
This premium WordPress FAQ plugin from Tribulant is priced at $19.99 for a single installation and $99.95 for unlimited installs. Customer help and support can be obtained by accessing the plugin’s documentation or by creating a support ticket.
WP-Answers – This premium answers plugin and theme combination lets you transform your default WordPress blog into a complete questions and answers site like Quora or Yahoo Answers. Users can submit questions and answers as well as automatically import questions from Yahoo Answers. It offers lots of features and it can be customized to fit your own WP site’s needs.
WP-Answers Features
- Comes with six themes
- Fully widgetized
- Display advertisements
- Ad management interface
- Automatically update your site’s content
- Import Yahoo Answers postings
- User profiles
- Assign points to users who answer/ask questions
- Allow members to ask questions
- Allow members to answer questions
- Easily install and update plugin
- Set search terms for Yahoo Answers import
- Limit how often content imports should occur
A WP-Answers license may be purchased for single sites ($89), multiple webistes ($179), or for development purposes ($249). Support for this plugin and theme is handled through email and the forums. Each license comes with a 14-day money back guarantee, free software updates, and support requests.
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Thank you very much Kevin, that you include our plugin into that great list. We really appreciate that and we hope that people will try it out to see the advantages compare to other similar plugins.
Twitter/Share/BookmarkThanks for this list – is it really worth paying for these plugins? Do they deliver real value if used correctly?
Kevin Eklund reply on September 19th, 2009 5:17 pm:
Absolutely. Premium WordPress plugins are created by expert WordPress plugin developers that back their plugins with excellent support for their customers. This is in stark contrast to some of the free plugins you’ll find at WordPress.org in which you’re lucky if the plugin author ever replies to such a support request.
Chilli-Alex reply on September 20th, 2009 3:45 am:
Thanks for the reply Kevin, I’m new to WordPress – so was surprised by this, but now you explain it – it does make total sense.
I may consider a purchase or two from the above list.
I was searching for membership site plugins and I bumped into this article. And I want to thank you for listing all these great plugins. I was actually looking for an ebay one as well, You saved me a ton time and frustration
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