Best admin plugins for WordPress
1,835 plugins tagged “admin” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.

SHIFT Short WP Admin Theme
Down in the last 7 days:1,128#34,752by shiftsx11 years ago
Just another wp admin theme. Simple, but clean.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Quick Toolbar Links
Down in the last 7 days:1,350#34,800by Heather Feuerhelm10 months ago
Gives you the ability to add custom links to the admin toolbar in addition to your frequently used admin and plugin links.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Follow Me Sidebar
#34,826by WazzaJB13 years ago
Make the WordPress admin sidebar follow you as you scroll down the page, great for long edit screens!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Feature Flipper
Down in the last 7 days:2,089#34,837by Thoriq Firdaus2 months ago
Disable Comments, Gutenberg, Emojis, and other features you might not need in WordPress®
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sane Widget Sidebar Management
#34,847by Justin Sternberg13 years ago
Manage one widget area at a time to maintain widget sanity.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.4(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Coeur Admin Color Scheme
#35,028by Frenchtastic12 years ago
This plugin allows you to give your Wordpress dashboard a fresh new look.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fixed Admin Sidebar
#35,052by Matt Hodder14 years ago
Fixes the positioning of the admin sidebar to the side of the browser, even when scrolled down. Best used with collapsed view.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hide Quick Links
#35,057by Udara Madushan15 years ago
Hide Top quick links on admin panel
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Edit Tag Slug (Multisite)
Up in the last 7 days:8,616#35,428by Sergey Biryukov15 years ago
Allows to specify or edit a tag slug in WordPress Multisite.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin bar Plugin Shortcut
Up in the last 7 days:10,698#35,431by rakshithvbharani@gmail.com11 years ago
Adds a shortcut to install plugin in the admin bar.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Updated Messages
#35,436by Morgan Estes8 years ago
Tailored updated messages for custom post types.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day
WP Quick Deploy
Down in the last 7 days:187#35,437by Vladimir Prelovac12 years ago
WP Quick Deploy allows you to pick your favorite plugins and install them at once without hassle.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP egosearch
Up in the last 7 days:12,881#35,459by smkn11 years ago
Displays the egosearch(search your site URL/sitename) results of twitter in the dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Customize Widgets
Up in the last 7 days:10,692#35,475by Jess Mann11 years ago
Too many widgets cluttering up your wordpress install? This plugin allows you to hide unwanted widgets from the Appearance > Widgets panel, and any …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin bar languages
Up in the last 7 days:10,693#35,484by Mikael Korpela9 years ago
Show language flags at "My sites" list in WordPress admin bar.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Box
Up in the last 7 days:6,635#35,579by mch0lic13 years ago
Simple featured image slider.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Filter Email Notifications
Up in the last 7 days:9,421#35,599by scribu14 years ago
Stop WordPress from sending email notifications for comments that have been manually approved.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
IWG Faster Tagging
Up in the last 7 days:12,404#35,653iwg-faster-tagging18 years ago
"IWG Faster Tagging" fixes some disadvantages from the original tagging-system at your editing post page..
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day
Uni-theme Maintenance Mode
Up in the last 7 days:9,424#35,671by Vitalii Kiiko15 years ago
Currently only in Ukrainian translation!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day
hello_dave
Up in the last 7 days:5,341#35,686by gpThomas12 years ago
Based on Matt Mullenweg's "Hello, Dolly." Instead of the lyrics from Louis Armstrong's Hello, Dolly you get HAL 9000 quotes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BossAdmin
Up in the last 7 days:9,854#35,689by The-Boss12 years ago
A dark style color scheme for WordPress admin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Grid Avoid Doublets
Up in the last 7 days:7,868#35,777by Palasthotel GmbH8 years ago
Avoid doublets API while rendering grids
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Comment Moderation Highlighter
Up in the last 7 days:10,105#35,786by johnh1010 years ago
This plugin will highlight keywords you specify on the admin moderation page, making it easier to spot manual spam and/or troll comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Plugin Mover
Up in the last 7 days:10,105#35,801by theode5 years ago
Easily move your plugins into another folder!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

AC Change Login Image
Up in the last 7 days:6,923#35,822by António Campos2 years ago
This plugin changes the image in the login page (wp-login.php), you can choose any image from your gallery and use it as login logo.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Keys
#35,835by joesat11 years ago
Admin Keys provide intuitive WordPress admin keyboard shortcuts for accessibility and efficiency
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Geo Tags for Germany
Up in the last 7 days:10,104#35,877by frankkugler14 years ago
WP Geo Tags fuer Deutschland
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Notify
Up in the last 7 days:11,856#36,046by Midhun Devasia10 years ago
WP-Notify is a notification plugin, this will help you to notify or alert informations about latest posts/system maintenance time etc...
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-AddonChat
Up in the last 7 days:11,854#36,052by nickohrn15 years ago
WP-AddonChat provides an easy and quick way to integrate AddonInteractive's AddonChat software into your WordPress install.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ultimate WordPress Reset
Up in the last 7 days:11,478#36,089by MagniumThemes7 years ago
Resets the WordPress database back to default state with one click. Deletes all settings and content. Does not modify any files only resets the databa …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Argiope amoena
Up in the last 7 days:11,480#36,100by fukushima5 years ago
Automatically upload media files to Amazon S3. Also change the link in the post to the URL of S3.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Sleeker Admin Color Schemes
#36,137by Sleeker UI/UX Design1 year ago
Short description of the plugin: Adds new admin color schemes with 3D effect to the WordPress admin panel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Growl
Up in the last 7 days:11,459#36,201by DannyvanHolten9 years ago
Show your WordPress admin notices in a growlike / better way, and snooze them whenever you see fit.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Get Remote URL Info
Up in the last 7 days:347#36,229by Oscar de Souza Dias14 years ago
Fetches information about a remote URL and adds it into the post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Guest Bar
Up in the last 7 days:8,869#36,328by Marco Milesi1 month ago
Add a customizable guest bar to your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Limited Admin Role By HEMDOX Digital
Up in the last 7 days:7,813#36,373by minhaz5227 days ago
A safe "Admin Panel Manager" role for staff, clients and freelancers: one-click presets, per-plugin access, WooCommerce limits and session timeout.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Jurassic Login
Up in the last 7 days:1,335#36,375by ScreenRes8 years ago
Login error message inspired by the 1993 Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multiple Rich Editors
Up in the last 7 days:6,599#36,416by nickohrn12 years ago
This plugin allows developers to easily register addition rich editors and retrieve / display the content entered within.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
myEASYdb
Up in the last 7 days:2,416#36,426by ugosinhache16 years ago
Edit and manage your MySQL tables in the easiest and quickest way.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Dragcheck Admin Rows
Up in the last 7 days:5,456#36,427by X-Raym11 years ago
A simple plugin to add few enhancements when checking a row on default Admin Tables, such as Users, Plugins or Posts lists.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
User Access Manager
Up in the last 7 days:5,887#36,505by gm_alex9 years ago
With this plugin you can use the "User Access Manager" to control the access for the "NextGen Gallery".
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ShopPanel
#36,509by Kamalyon11 months ago
Shopify-style administration panel fully focused on ecommerce with WooCommerce.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BB User List
#36,543by hudolejev14 years ago
This plugin adds additional columns to user list in WP Admin: forum topic and reply counts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Sukellos Dashboard Bar
Up in the last 7 days:7,752#36,594by Ludovic Maillet2 years ago
Sukellos Dashboard Bar hides the WordPress admin dashboard bar. Can be applied to certain profiles only.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
iG:Custom Metaboxes
Up in the last 7 days:10,085#36,604by Amit Gupta11 years ago
A WordPress plugin to provide an object oriented and clean API for creating custom meta-boxes on wp-admin post_type add/edit screens.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

CC-God-User
Down in the last 7 days:4,050#36,605by Clearcode3 years ago
This plugin allows to add the God Users capability, block the delete option and hide specific users on the users list.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Undo Box
Up in the last 7 days:10,067#36,663by Mike Martel14 years ago
Simple one-click post restore while you're writing
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin Topbar Visibility
Up in the last 7 days:10,063#36,670by Maciej Cielma5 years ago
Allows you to hide / show / auto-hide the topbar appearing on the Site when logged.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

GP Integration
Down in the last 7 days:1,384#36,676by Greg Ross2 years ago
Integrates GlotPress with your WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Metabox Glue
Up in the last 7 days:3,252#36,734by cubecolour1 year ago
Glues the editor metaboxes in place so they cannot be repositioned or minimised.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day