Best admin plugins for WordPress
The most popular admin plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Loginizer leads with 1M+ active installs, ahead of Redux Framework (900K+) and Admin Menu Editor (300K+). All 1,835 plugins tagged “admin” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 admin plugins
- 1.
LoginizerThe most installed admin plugin, with 1M+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 1,033 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.Redux Framework
900K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 273 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 3.
Admin Menu Editor300K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 312 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
White Label CMS200K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 114 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 5.
Advanced Custom Fields100K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 132 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 6.Nested Pages
90K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 126 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.
Disable REST API80K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 38 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 8.Conditional Menus
60K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 71 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.
All In One Favicon60K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 82 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 10.Add From Server
60K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 239 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
All 1,835 plugins tagged “admin”

Loginizer
#46by Softaculous10 days ago
Loginizer is a WordPress security plugin which helps you fight against bruteforce attacks.
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.8(1K)
- Downloads
- 10.4K/day
Redux Framework
#70by David Anderson / Team Updraft6 days ago
Redux is a simple, truly extensible, and fully responsive options framework for WordPress themes and plugins. It ships with an integrated demo.
- Installs
- 900K+
- Rating
- 4.4(273)
- Downloads
- 7.5K/day

Admin Menu Editor
#157by Janis Elsts2 months ago
Lets you edit the WordPress admin menu. You can re-order, hide or rename menus, add custom menus and more.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 4.6(312)
- Downloads
- 2K/day

White Label CMS
#233by Video User Manuals4 months ago
Customise dashboard panels and branding, hide menus plus lots more.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.7(114)
- Downloads
- 708/day

Advanced Custom Fields
#450by Konrad Chmielewski20 days ago
All-in-one enhancement suite that improves WordPress & Advanced Custom Fields.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(132)
- Downloads
- 1.8K/day
Nested Pages
Up in the last 7 days:1#474by Hook & Filter1 month ago
Nested Pages provides a drag and drop interface for managing pages & posts in the WordPress admin, while maintaining quick edit functionality.
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.7(126)
- Downloads
- 823/day

Disable REST API
#513by Dave McHale3 years ago
Disable the use of the REST API on your website to site users. Now with User Role support!
- Installs
- 80K+
- Rating
- 4.8(38)
- Downloads
- 319/day
Conditional Menus
#662by themifyme2 months ago
This plugin enables you to set conditional menus per posts, pages, categories, archive pages, etc.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.4(71)
- Downloads
- 220/day

All In One Favicon
Up in the last 7 days:2#663by Garrett Grimm3 years ago
Easily add a Favicon to your site and the WordPress admin pages. Complete with upload functionality. Supports all three Favicon types (ico,png,gif).
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.5(82)
- Downloads
- 69/day
Add From Server
Up in the last 7 days:2#683by Dion Hulse5 years ago
Add From Server is designed to help ease the pain of bad web hosts, allowing you to upload files via FTP or SSH and later import them into WordPress.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.6(239)
- Downloads
- 73/day
WP Revisions Control
Up in the last 7 days:1#812by Erick Hitter1 year ago
Control how many revisions are stored for each post type.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 97/day
Revision Control
Up in the last 7 days:1#847by Dion Hulse8 years ago
Revision Control allows finer control over the Post Revision system included with WordPress
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.4(36)
- Downloads
- 45/day
Cryout Serious Theme Settings
Up in the last 7 days:3#892by CryoutCreations9 months ago
This plugin is designed to inter-operate with our Mantra, Parabola, Tempera, Nirvana themes to enable their settings pages.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.3(16)
- Downloads
- 84/day

Display PHP Version
Down in the last 7 days:1#997by David Gwyer3 years ago
Displays the currently installed PHP/MySQL version in the "At a Glance" admin dashboard widget.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.9(35)
- Downloads
- 52/day

Login as User
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,013by Web3574 days ago
Log in as any WordPress user with one click. Troubleshoot issues and support customers without asking for their password.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(41)
- Downloads
- 675/day
Scripts n Styles
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,065by WraithKenny3 years ago
This plugin allows Admin users to individually add HTML, custom CSS, Classes and JavaScript directly to Post, Pages or any other custom post types.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.4(30)
- Downloads
- 50/day
WP Admin UI Customize
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,072by gqevu6bsiz1 year ago
Customize the management screen UI.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.6(59)
- Downloads
- 99/day
WP Custom Admin Interface
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,079by Northern Beaches Websites9 months ago
With WP Custom Admin Interface you can easily customise the WordPress admin and login interfaces.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(160)
- Downloads
- 92/day

Site Offline Or Coming Soon Or Maintenance Mode
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,121by chandrashekharsahu2 years ago
Site Offline plugin manage your WordPress website in under construction or maintenance mode or coming soon or landing page.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.8(399)
- Downloads
- 56/day

Radio Buttons for Taxonomies
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,154by HelgaTheViking1 year ago
Replace the default taxonomy boxes with a custom metabox that uses radio buttons... effectively limiting each post to a single term in that taxonomy.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 5.0(50)
- Downloads
- 178/day

Hide Admin Bar
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,188by David Vongries1 year ago
Hide the Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1+.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.5(30)
- Downloads
- 62/day
SpiceBox
Down in the last 7 days:4#1,269by spicethemes4 months ago
Enhance Spicethemes WordPress Themes functionality.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 83/day
Error Log Monitor
#1,274by Janis Elsts27 days ago
Adds a Dashboard widget that displays the latest messages from your PHP error log. It can also send logged errors to email.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.3(48)
- Downloads
- 227/day

Catch IDs
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,282by Catch Themes5 months ago
What this plugin does is to shows the IDs on admin section.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.8(20)
- Downloads
- 85/day

Audit Trail
Up in the last 7 days:9#1,364by John Godley9 years ago
Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog by monitoring administration functions.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 2.8(4)
- Downloads
- 30/day

SEO Friendly Images
#1,427by Vladimir Prelovac9 years ago
SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images improving traffic from search engines.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.0(59)
- Downloads
- 35/day

Desert Companion
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,438by Desert Themes1 month ago
Desert Companion Enhances Desert Themes with additional functionality.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 148/day
LWS Tools
Up in the last 7 days:4#1,440by Aurélien LWS25 days ago
Optimize and modify your website's parameters
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 97/day

Simple Taxonomy Ordering
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,444by Evan Herman3 years ago
Quickly and easily reorder taxonomy terms with an easy to use and intuitive drag and drop interface.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(28)
- Downloads
- 222/day
Widget Disable
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,461by required1 month ago
Disable sidebar and dashboard widgets with an easy to use interface.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(24)
- Downloads
- 39/day
Custom Login
#1,481by Austin2 months ago
Custom Login allows you to easily customize your admin login page, works great for client sites!
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.6(97)
- Downloads
- 84/day

Term Management Tools
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,576by scribu11 months ago
Allows you to merge terms, move terms between taxonomies, and set term parents, individually or in bulk.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(76)
- Downloads
- 375/day

Admin CSS MU
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,643by Arun Basil Lal1 year ago
Add custom CSS to style the WordPress Admin. Works with Multisites.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(26)
- Downloads
- 34/day

Slim Maintenance Mode
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,685by Johannes3 months ago
Simple and lightweight solution for scheduled maintenance. No settings page, just activate it and do your maintenance work stress-free.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(63)
- Downloads
- 188/day
Arile Extra
#1,695by Theme Arile12 days ago
Arile Extra is a companion plugin for ArileWP WordPress theme by ThemeArile.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 122/day

Bogo
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,733by Rock Lobster Inc.2 months ago
A straight-forward multilingual plugin. No more double-digit custom DB tables or hidden HTML comments that could cause you headaches later on.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(48)
- Downloads
- 144/day

Admin Menu Tree Page View
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,752by Pär Thernström1 month ago
Get a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Search, add, edit, view, re-order – all is just one click away!
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(48)
- Downloads
- 85/day
Adjust Admin Categories
#1,773by Masahiro NAKASHIMA4 years ago
Installing this plugin allows you to adjust the behavior of the area below the posts screen category and custom taxonomy box.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 92/day

WP-Memory-Usage
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,817by berkux2 months ago
Monitor PHP memory usage, set alert thresholds, and diagnose your server configuration — directly inside WordPress admin.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(21)
- Downloads
- 82/day
Uber Login Logo
#1,871by uberweb9 years ago
A simple, lightweight WordPress plugin to change your login logo.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(41)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Add Admin CSS
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,876by Scott Reilly11 months ago
Easily define additional CSS (inline and/or by URL) to be added to all administration pages.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(35)
- Downloads
- 59/day

Automatic Domain Changer
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,945by nuagelab6 months ago
Automatically detects a domain name change, and updates all the WordPress tables in the database to reflect this change.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(29)
- Downloads
- 57/day
WP Last Login
Up in the last 7 days:9#1,983by Konstantin Obenland29 days ago
Adds a sortable "Last Login" column to the Users screen — spot inactive accounts and see who's actually using your site.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.8(26)
- Downloads
- 132/day
WPS Bidouille
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,185by NicolasKulka2 months ago
WPS Bidouille provides information about your WordPress and contains optimization tools.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.9(54)
- Downloads
- 42/day

Media Deduper
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,271by cornershop11 months ago
Save disk space and bring some order to the chaos of your media library by removing and preventing duplicate files.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 3.8(44)
- Downloads
- 68/day

View Admin As
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,290by Jory Hogeveen19 days ago
View the WordPress admin as a different role or visitor, switch between users, temporarily change your capabilities, set screen settings for roles.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.9(49)
- Downloads
- 74/day

My WP Customize Admin/Frontend
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,317by gqevu6bsiz16 days ago
Simply and easy-to-use the customize for Admin and Frontend. A lot of custom filters and actions, and included the developer tools.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.3(16)
- Downloads
- 112/day

Remove admin menus by role
#2,421by manu2252 months ago
Select easily which admin menus to remove for which roles.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.4(14)
- Downloads
- 31/day
Daddy Plus
Down in the last 7 days:9#2,428by Themes Daddy29 days ago
Daddy Plus is a useful plugin for WordPress theme by Themes Daddy.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 71/day
ACF qTranslate
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,449by funkjedi8 years ago
Provides qTranslate compatible ACF field types for Text, Text Area, WYSIWYG, Image and File.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.5(17)
- Downloads
- 23/day