Project management has become a critical component of most businesses to finish projects on time. To stay within budget and meet deadlines – you need to be organized, plan accordingly, and have the discipline to follow processes.

This is where project management kicks in and helps you coordinate multiple team members, make sure the quality is up to a high standard and have clear goals for future tasks.

In this article, we’ll cover the best project management plugins for WordPress – one of the most popular free CMS (Content Management Systems) and website building platforms available on the market today!

WP Project Manager

WP Project Manager is one of the best project management plugins for WordPress and it’s open-source. It’s quite advanced, and its Pro version can compete with full-fledged project management systems. The free version provides project creation, to-do management, file attachments, user assignment, messaging, and comments capability. If you need drag and drop enabled calendar, milestone tracking, or extended privacy settings – you can opt for a premium version. In addition, you can extend functionality via add-ons to integrate your website with BuddyPress or WooCommerce.

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Price: Freemium

WordPress Project Management by UpStream

UpStream allows you to quickly and easily manage projects right from your WordPress dashboard, while your clients can track projects progress through the front-end view. You can upload files and documents, use milestones and tasks capability, leave comments, use bug tracking and automated progress tracking. Front-end templates are also customizable, and you have out-of-the-box roles for managers and users. If needed, you can extend this plugin via premium extensions.

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Price: Freemium

Kanban for WordPress

This plugin is one of the most advanced project management plugins for WordPress, and it goes head to head with full-fledged project management systems. It provides a dashboard with novel features right inside WordPress, and shortcuts to quickly perform tasks. You can customize the Kanban board as per clients’ needs, assign it to the specific team, and then calculate the time frame and track the time it took to finish each project. In addition to that – you can use this plugin as a CRM system.

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Price: Freemium

SP Client Document & Project Manager

This plugin is quite advanced but straightforward to use, and it has extended features such as file management and document collaboration. It allows you to manage clients, documents, accounts, distribution as well as track, upload, share, and organize project documents. The premium version includes custom fields, custom email notifications, responsive layout, versioning support and more.

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Price: Freemium

CQPIM WordPress Project Management

This plugin started as an in-house solution for a web agency that was made available for purchase due to a lack of useful WordPress project management plugins. It’s a very powerful project management plugin that provides a unique set of project management features:

• Tasks and milestones, timelines, and files
• Excellent settings panel and workflow management
• Quotes
• Dashboard alerts for projects, support tickets, invoices, and quotes
• Client dashboard that clients can use to add their team members
• Support HelpDesk
• Project templates, task management, and task progress tracking

It has more features than we’re able to list here, and it’s an excellent value for money. It’s a well suited tool both for small companies to big agencies.

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Price: $49

Project Panorama

Project Panorama has a user-friendly interface, and a great feature set and ecosystem. This plugin uses visuals to make the project control easier and natural. You can create unlimited projects, tasks, documents, and milestones. Panorama can automatically determine project completion and time elapsed based on task completion and helps you understand if you’re ahead or behind. In addition to that, it also provides a custom dashboard for team members and clients where they can see a bird’s- eye-view of projects and estimated completion times.

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Price: Freemium

WordPress is a fantastic project management platform as it allows you to have features free of charge, or purchase a full software replacement at a fraction of the cost. Also, the majority of the project management plugins allow you to manage everything right from your WordPress dashboard, which is pretty handy.

Let us know if you have experience using any of these WordPress project management plugins and how it went in the comments!