Best admin plugins for WordPress

Maintenance Mode with Site Build Status

Up in the last 7 days:3,331#43,138

by maxgarceau5 years ago

Add a maintenance page to your website that ALSO tells your customers and visitors exactly what stage of progress your website is in.

WP Activity Logger

Up in the last 7 days:2,180#43,170

by Allan Bruford13 years ago

WP Activity Logger is a plugin that monitors and notifies of certain events that take place on your site.

2046's Loop widget

Up in the last 7 days:3,469#43,195

by 204614 years ago

2046's loop widget boosts you website prototyping.

Plugins Admin Bar

#43,201

by Russell Aaron9 years ago

Plugins Admin Bar is a free WordPress Plugin that adds quick links to the WordPress Admin Bar, under the site name menu, for plugins and network plugi …

Local Indicator

Up in the last 7 days:3,860#43,208

by Tom J Nowell13 years ago

A fast way of seeing which machine a WordPress install is running on.

HDY Login Branding

Up in the last 7 days:2,880#43,214

by Mary Mojisola Job1 month ago

Brand WordPress login, registration, and password-recovery screens from Settings.

Website Diary

Up in the last 7 days:163#43,298

website-diary16 years ago

For keeping diary-like notes, so you can quickly overview recent changes on your site (and spot the source of an eventual problem).

WP Better Calendar

Up in the last 7 days:933#43,475

by Pritpal Singh9 years ago

A Better Calendar for sidebar widgets.

Export Comment Authors

Up in the last 7 days:3,672#43,480

by bjplink16 years ago

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

EM Custom Login

Up in the last 7 days:3,649#43,481

by erikdmitchell9 years ago

Enables a completely customizable WordPress login, registration and password form.

Sane Visual Editor

Down in the last 7 days:7,866#43,496

by Matt Wiebe15 years ago

Locks down the TinyMCE visual editor with a sane set of buttons that will help your authors to not insert disruptive styles.

Update Notifier Telegram

Down in the last 7 days:4,273#43,502

by AleksHr4 years ago

Sends notifications to the administrator in Telegram if a new version of WordPress is available. You can also send notifications about available plugi …

Plugin Commander

Down in the last 7 days:1,797#43,531

by Marcus (aka @msykes)16 years ago

Plugin Commander is a plugin management plugin for multi-site mode, which allows further control on network-activated plugins.

Fields

Up in the last 7 days:3,697#43,537

by Khanh16 years ago

Creates custom write panels to manage post custom fields.

WP Admin Block

Down in the last 7 days:4,300#43,567

by Blackbird Interactive15 years ago

WP Block Admin is a simple plugin that allows you to restrict access to the defualt Wordpress admin panel. WP Admin Block has been updated to work wit …

Smart Dashboard Extras

#43,573

by Nilanchala Panigrahy10 years ago

Use Smart Dashboard Extra plugin to customize your WordPress admin dashboard by selectively removing interface elements and add more features.

th23 Media Library Extension

Down in the last 7 days:8,139#43,575

by th2310 years ago

Adds advanced filter options to the Media Library, attachment links to edit posts/ pages overview.

Eye-candy theme by WordPress Monsters

Up in the last 7 days:4,002#43,597

by WordPress Monsters9 years ago

Add new admin theme to your website. If default admin themes irritate you and you suffer from sore eyes, this color scheme is the best choice for you!

My Posts

Down in the last 7 days:5,638#43,603

by thedannywahl10 years ago

Add 'My Posts' to the admin menu. Perfect for multi-author blogs.

FAQ & Knowledge Base Plugin

Up in the last 7 days:81#43,611

by Casengo12 years ago

Add a powerful FAQ & Knowledge Base on your WordPress Blog or Website. Powered by Casengo!

Better Admin Reading

Down in the last 7 days:3,551#43,630

by wycks13 years ago

Restores balance to WordPress 3.8's admin. Improves the admin experience especially if you have a lot of menu items.

ST Admin Protection

Down in the last 7 days:3,663#43,653

by shayne15 years ago

This plugin blocks everyone but the admin from accessing the Wordpresss Admin

DreamCore Monitor

Down in the last 7 days:8,692#43,692

by ifsolutions1 year ago

WordPress monitoring solution that tracks login attempts, core status, plugin updates, theme status, and file integrity.

Easy page templates info

Up in the last 7 days:2,709#43,764

by milanstojanov13 years ago

This plugin adds a new column in WP-Admin->Pages which will let you know what template file is used for every page.

OS日報プラグイン

#43,796

by OLIVESYSTEM9 years ago

日報プラグインです。カスタム投稿を利用して、日報が書け、管理できます。

hello_dave

#43,811

by 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.

Better Plugins Plugin

#43,813

by Russell Heimlich11 years ago

This plugin makes your life easier by providing tools for filtering, comparing, and reporting plugins.

WP Post Icon

#43,859

by linewbie18 years ago

Enables blogs authors to upload and select topic icons or images and have it automatically show up in their blog post.

showGplus

#43,875

by niry14 years ago

A small plugin whose purpose is to show G+ "Follow us", using a shortcode.

WelcomeUser!

#43,894

by chriscarvache14 years ago

Add commonly seen user login links and welcome messages to the meta / utility section of your blog.

Parsedown Importer

Down in the last 7 days:525#43,971

by foresthoffman9 years ago

An unofficial Parsedown importer for translating Markdown files into WordPress posts/pages.

NpLogin

Down in the last 7 days:8,174#43,992

by anupofuniverse15 years ago

NpLogin is custom WP Login plugin. You can view the customized Wordpress login screen once you install this plugin.

wp-AuthorComment

Down in the last 7 days:3,083#44,064

by kingjeffrey17 years ago

Uniquely style the post author's comments.

Toolbar flags

#44,067

by Scott J. Walter6 years ago

Displays the status of WP_DEBUG, DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT, and DISALLOW_FILE_MODS in the Toolbar.

Sort Pages By Date

#44,074

by ericabiz8 years ago

Sorts pages by last modified date in WordPress's admin panel.

Page Identifier Column

#44,089

by Marcus Downing15 years ago

Adds an "Identifier" column showing a post of page's slug, just after the Title column.

WIDGETS VIEW CUSTOM

Down in the last 7 days:1,997#44,099

by gqevu6bsiz13 years ago

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

Adjust Users Screen

#44,123

by keith_wp10 years ago

Alter the Users screen in the admin, re-ordering the columns and turning individual columns on or off.

Uni-theme Maintenance Mode

Up in the last 7 days:1,813#44,162

by Vitalii Kiiko15 years ago

Currently only in Ukrainian translation!

BossAdmin

Down in the last 7 days:7,765#44,182

by The-Boss12 years ago

A dark style color scheme for WordPress admin.

Positive Affirmations

Up in the last 7 days:778#44,189

by Andy Stitt10 years ago

This shows you a different positive affirmation on every page of the admin section.

Disallow PNG

Up in the last 7 days:2,923#44,209

by dpoakaspine10 years ago

Disallows PNG files. Usefor for multi-user environments with restrictive file settings and performance oriented sites.

WP Update Message

Up in the last 7 days:4,124#44,249

by Jenst17 years ago

Add a short note about the latest changes in the current post or page.

Warn Other Admins

Up in the last 7 days:1,212#44,340

by erayalakese14 years ago

With this plugin you can warn other wp-admin users. For example, you can type “Don’t touch widgets! I’ll fix it tomorrow !”

Log Deprecated Notices Extender

Up in the last 7 days:1,212#44,344

by Joey Kudish15 years ago

This developer-oriented WordPress plugin extends Andrew Nacin's Log Deprecated Notices to show a link in the WP 3.3+ Toolbar.

Comment Recovery

Up in the last 7 days:321#44,428

by Roland Rust19 years ago

Recovers lost comments by copy/pasteing your new comment notification emails

Easy Updates Menu

#44,525

by Core Essentials1 year ago

Adds a dynamic 'Updates' submenu item under the Plugins menu when updates are available.

System Admin

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by mcgwier1 month ago

This plugin creates a new role (sysadmin), extending the admin role by offering custom privileges that enable hiding options from other users, includi …

Stylish Login Pro

Down in the last 7 days:27#44,667

by Rimaz Rauf11 years ago

Stylish Login Pro is a simple modern plugin I made so that I could customize the login screen on my own websit.

Wizhi Optimization by Wenprise

Down in the last 7 days:9,115#44,716

by Amos Lee（一刀）7 years ago

Clean up and optimization WordPress for Chinese user or who use English in China