Best admin plugins for WordPress

WP Customize

Down in the last 7 days:1,367#36,738

by WebSight Designs8 years ago

This plugin allows you to set up a custom login page, and set a custom footer message in the WordPress Admin.

Pumpkin Spice Admin

Up in the last 7 days:3,804#37,098

by cornershop2 years ago

Add some fall flavor to your WordPress admin.

HTML Editor Type

Up in the last 7 days:6,732#37,147

by Matt Wiebe13 years ago

Uses the lovely M+ 2m font in the HTML post editor for more beautiful typing.

Easy User Tags

#37,173

by danielbitzer10 years ago

Easy User Tags adds a WordPress custom taxonomy called User Tags.

Add Custom Link to WordPress Admin Bar

#37,214

by sumitbansal0546 years ago

Add the custom link to your wordpress admin bar

Taxonomy Admin Search

Up in the last 7 days:30,069#37,241

by Triweb Digital1 year ago

Adds an AJAX-powered search box to taxonomy metaboxes on the post edit screen when a taxonomy has more than 5 terms.

Post Editing Toolbar

Up in the last 7 days:347#37,245

by glutaminefree12 years ago

This plugin implements the toolbar for more comfortable post controls.

Admin Documentation

Up in the last 7 days:1,151#37,268

by Basecraft8 months ago

Adds a simple documentation page to your WordPress admin to keep instructions, notes, and other helpful information for maintaining your website.

Force Featured Image

Up in the last 7 days:7,116#37,405

by Jonathan Bardo11 years ago

Ever wanted to force a user to publish a post with a featured image of a certain dimension? Search no more.

Posts Edit SubPanel Date Format

Up in the last 7 days:5,913#37,450

by khurramfraz16 years ago

Posts/Pages Edit SubPanel Date Format synchronize the wordpress date format with date format in date column of posts edit subpanel.

ms HTML special Chars in your comments

Up in the last 7 days:9,181#37,523

by DZVO18 years ago

msHTMLspecialChars - Show all HTML special chars in your comments.

wp Custom Login

#37,526

by Niaj Morshed13 years ago

This plugin can changes the logo & background image of the login form.

WP Admin Error Handler

Up in the last 7 days:9,282#37,576

by Gilbert Pellegrom14 years ago

Taming WordPress and PHP errors and displaying them properly.

Theme Blvd Admin Presence

Down in the last 7 days:1,808#37,589

by Jason14 years ago

When using a theme with Theme Blvd framework version 2.1+, this plugin is will allow you to completely hide the theme's admin presence.

Set Email "From" Address

Down in the last 7 days:1,859#37,625

by justinsamuel19 years ago

This plugin allows you to set the "From" address used in emails sent by WordPress, thus overriding the default of wordpress@yourdomain.com.

WIDGETS VIEW CUSTOM

Up in the last 7 days:10,134#37,846

by gqevu6bsiz13 years ago

Select only the widget you want to use, Customize the widgets list.

Awesome Google Maps

#37,913

by Cobbysoft10 years ago

Awesome Google Maps plugin makes it EASY to add Google Map on your website. No Coding, No Setup.

Full Site Title

Up in the last 7 days:4,439#38,032

by Sergey Biryukov15 years ago

Displays the uncut title of your site on the admin screens.

User Count

Up in the last 7 days:4,437#38,038

by kirbtech13 years ago

Simply displays the number of users who have an account on your blog to the admin dashboard. Also lists number of users by user role.

Zoneboard

Up in the last 7 days:7,108#38,211

by jarednova11 years ago

Create an easy dashboard for your users with links deeper into the WordPress admin, all driven by JSON.

embAd Ads

Down in the last 7 days:673#38,252

by segalr313 years ago

This plugin integrates your website with embAD. embAD is an awesome & simple service that helps website owners to embed ads into their website.

Safer Cookies

Up in the last 7 days:9,154#38,268

by Janis Elsts17 years ago

Ties the WP session cookie to your IP address so that it can't be used to get access to you blog from another computer.

WP Live Edit

#38,287

by Ole-Kenneth14 years ago

WP Live Edit is Wordpress plugin that enable the user to update the content, live, on the blog.

Disk Usage

Up in the last 7 days:5,290#38,320

by Roland Rust19 years ago

Displays disk space used by your WordPress website.

FooterMate

Up in the last 7 days:7,884#38,331

by Tayyab Hassan1 year ago

Add a custom footer message to your WordPress site. Lightweight and easy to use.

Integration Plugin for Pagely Resellers

Up in the last 7 days:8,578#38,554

by joshua strebel12 years ago

This is in beta. Your mileage may vary.

Font-Zoom

#38,592

by _bengineer_11 years ago

A Wordpress plugin which gives the ability to zoom in/out on various text elements (think user readability enhancement). After a user edits their zoom …

Admin Pro

#38,608

by Idea Quotient Labs8 years ago

Admin pro makes WordPress Admin back-end look more easier and beautiful.

Horizontal Admin Menu

#38,643

by Eddie Krebs15 years ago

Move your admin menu to the top of the screen!

Coming Soon Mode

Up in the last 7 days:7,091#38,659

by seosbg10 years ago

Coming Soon Mode is easy to use. Coming Soon Mode WordPress plugin.

Lyon Site Activity

#38,720

by Wheaton College6 years ago

A simple, lightweight plugin that gives site administrators an at-a-glance view of recent content edits.

YD WPML Switcher

Up in the last 7 days:5,455#38,734

by Yann at WP&Co15 years ago

Add-on to WPML to switch off language filters on specific pages.

Johnny Cache

Up in the last 7 days:3,472#38,747

by Scott Taylor11 years ago

Provides an admin interface for inspecting Memcached instances and flushing items by key or group in an AJAX fashion.

WP-Fast-Sort-Tags

Up in the last 7 days:1,563#38,777

by mcvivi16 years ago

"Wp-Fast-Sort Tags" allows you to create a page with the list of all tags sorted by name and then have all the posts related to this tag.

wp-TrackbackPopup

Up in the last 7 days:1,557#38,794

by kingjeffrey17 years ago

The standard WordPress trackback link behavior does not provide users their expected result. wp-TrackbackPopup resolves this issue.

BBpress Admin

Up in the last 7 days:1,560#38,803

by so1o18 years ago

Adds admin features from bbpress admin in the wordpress admin section

Plugin Grabber

Up in the last 7 days:7,124#38,828

by avdude1 month ago

Create and download a backup (zip) of a single plugin or your entire plugins directory - handy right before updating a plugin.

Clean Admin UI

Up in the last 7 days:7,107#38,912

by arend12 years ago

Easy Wordpress Menu, Remove menu items from the admin menu

WP Login Logo Changer

Up in the last 7 days:5,833#38,930

by Ahmad Awais6 years ago

Add your custom logo at login screen with one simple step.

Administrate more comments

Up in the last 7 days:7,108#38,942

by Joan Junyent Tarrida13 years ago

Administrate more comments was a WordPress plugin designed to set-up the number of comments per page shown in the admin area.

Plain Logger

Up in the last 7 days:6,682#38,944

by hxh909 years ago

Requires at least: 3.9 Tested up to: 4.7 Stable tag: 1.1.2

Foxdell Folio Taxonomy Toolkit

Up in the last 7 days:6,675#38,969

by TheHandOfCod10 years ago

Have finer control over your taxonomies so that you can have better organisation of your posts by using taxonomies other than just Categories and Tags …

Export Comment Authors

Up in the last 7 days:4,540#39,004

by bjplink16 years ago

Export Comment Authors lets you extract the Names, Email Addresses and more of your Comment Authors into a CSV file.

Fields

Up in the last 7 days:1,136#39,091

by Khanh16 years ago

Creates custom write panels to manage post custom fields.

Safe Cookies

#39,096

by Subhransu Sekhar12 years ago

Secure your wordpress site by making the Auth Cookie more secure

WP Float Admin Menu

#39,212

by Ola12 years ago

Re-positions your wordpress admin menu from the left side to the top. Have a less cluttered admin area for you or your clients to use

WP Figlet

#39,222

by Vladimir Prelovac12 years ago

WP Figlet allows you to draw ASCII art in your posts and page source.

Roosium Info

Up in the last 7 days:3,181#39,437

by antonroos7 years ago

Display WordPress, PHP, Web Server, MySQL and Theme versions in wp-admin footer.

Simple On/Off Switch

#39,438

by mattbeekler13 years ago

Adds a dashboard widget with a on/off switch that returns "on" or "off" value with a shortcode. Shortcode is [simpleswitch]

php snippet for theme designers

Up in the last 7 days:6,722#39,453

by 水野史土6 years ago

PHP Snippets for Theme Designer