Best admin plugins for WordPress
1,834 plugins tagged “admin” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.

SiteSignal
#45,758by sitesignal10 months ago
SiteSignal WordPress connector for AI visibility, website health, performance monitoring, and technical audits.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Reblog
Down in the last 7 days:9,128#45,771by dpoakaspine8 years ago
Reblog posts: create a new post and redirect to an old one
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dark Login Screen
Down in the last 7 days:3,850#45,774by silver53012 years ago
Change WordPress login screen to dark color to make it more contrast.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Scripts Customizer
Down in the last 7 days:9,130#45,798by Han12 years ago
WP Scripts Customizer allows to enter scripts you would like output to head and footer of your WordPress theme page via WordPress Theme customizer.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Updated Messages
Up in the last 7 days:930#45,811by Morgan Estes8 years ago
Tailored updated messages for custom post types.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
GT Press
Up in the last 7 days:929#45,816by Billy Bryant15 years ago
GT Press allows you to easily customize the look and feel of the back-end Admin menus.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Latency Tracker
Down in the last 7 days:3,180#45,820by sdkester16 years ago
Keeps track of the queries, loading time, and memory usage of your Wordpress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hello Norris
Down in the last 7 days:7,741#45,882by jensnilsson14 years ago
Shows a random fact about Chuck Norris in the upper right of admin pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Zoneboard
#45,952by jarednova11 years ago
Create an easy dashboard for your users with links deeper into the WordPress admin, all driven by JSON.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fixed Width Admin
#45,969by scott ogilvie12 years ago
Makes the admin area fixed-width instead of elastic. Easy to customize width.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Cleaner Dashboard
Down in the last 7 days:10,032#45,991by rob1n19 years ago
Removes the WordPress news sections and reorganizes the sidebar for maximum screen usage. See the screenshots for more details.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Full Site Title
Up in the last 7 days:273#46,042by Sergey Biryukov15 years ago
Displays the uncut title of your site on the admin screens.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
User Count
Up in the last 7 days:275#46,047by 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.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Podcast Channels
Up in the last 7 days:278#46,060by alanft12 years ago
Podcast Channels lets you setup 'Category-Casting' -- a different podcast per category.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Post Reminder
Down in the last 7 days:848#46,064by Shawn17 years ago
You should never publish posts from your admin account. An alert is displayed, informing the user they're logged in as admin and not to write pos …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hash Checker
Down in the last 7 days:849#46,089by Paul Menard17 years ago
Provide a method to verify your WordPress core files match the original downloaded version.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Contact Commenter
Down in the last 7 days:851#46,094by moallemi15 years ago
This Plugin lets you send email messages to individual or a group of commenters.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
RS User Access
Down in the last 7 days:4,889#46,095by rorystandley11 years ago
A plugin for allowing the control over what your users can see in the admin section of WordPress
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PlusNarrative Admin Theme
Up in the last 7 days:2,017#46,099by lliamscholtz11 years ago
The PlusNarrative Admin Theme plugin easily allows users to access critical information from PlusNarrative
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
wp Custom Login
Down in the last 7 days:5,743#46,124by Niaj Morshed13 years ago
This plugin can changes the logo & background image of the login form.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Alternative WordPress Image Uploader Using Flickr
Down in the last 7 days:8,564#46,128by Amit Kumar Singh17 years ago
This plugin was created for those people who are unsatisfied with image resizing capabilites of wordpress uploader. It uses services from flickr.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Daily Fitness Tips
Down in the last 7 days:8,565#46,133by SimonTurner16 years ago
This widget will add daily fitness tips to your blog giving it new fresh content and hopefully helping your readers to keep in shape.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Admin Theme
#46,158by Remi Corson14 years ago
Tested up to 3.4 Stable Tag: 1.0 With this plugin you can can specify a theme to display only for logged-in administrators.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Keep New Admin Menu Items in Bottom
Down in the last 7 days:5,746#46,195by Antonio Augusto1 year ago
WordPress plugin to keep new plugin admin menu items at the bottom of the admin menu.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-CMS
Up in the last 7 days:266#46,202by Gilbert Pellegrom17 years ago
WP-CMS is a plugin for Wordpress that changes the functionality of the Wordpress admin backend to act more like a CMS.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
David’s Admin Post Control
#46,285by dvg17 years ago
Allows you to control the number of posts displayed in lists in the WP Admin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Notify
Down in the last 7 days:3,119#46,358by 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
Down in the last 7 days:3,123#46,367by 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
Disable Post Format UI
Down in the last 7 days:3,286#46,372by Justin Tadlock13 years ago
Disables the post format UI on the edit post screen.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hide All Notification Panel
#46,392by Mutt Group / Mutt Studio5 months ago
Easily hide all notifications in the WordPress admin panel. Developed by Mutt Group / Mutt Studio.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Happiness
Down in the last 7 days:3,290#46,422by greghl11 years ago
This is just a plugin, it provides random happy thoughts in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Automatic Login
#46,440by Plugin Pizza5 months ago
Skip the login screen during local development. Log in automatically on your locally hosted WordPress install.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

BlueGlass Maintenance
Down in the last 7 days:8,373#46,454by Pineparks4 years ago
Official maintenance plugin by BlueGlass Interactive (Tallinn).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DATABASE SIZE WORPRESS PLUGIN
#46,455by crabiet16 years ago
Shows DataBase size in admin board.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Column View Selector
#46,486by grnesmith11 years ago
This Plugin adds the ability to change the columns on the admin Dashboard screen.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dashboard Shortcuts
Down in the last 7 days:8,660#46,507by Nikita Hlopov22 days ago
Add custom shortcut links to your admin bar. Create bookmarks and favorites for quick access to frequently used pages and tools.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Comment Moderation Highlighter
Up in the last 7 days:565#46,507by 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:562#46,527by theode5 years ago
Easily move your plugins into another folder!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
What should we write about next
Down in the last 7 days:573#46,613by Vladimir Prelovac12 years ago
What should we write about next allows your users to quickly leave feedback at the end of your posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin Screenshots
#46,648by Senff - a11n2 months ago
Want to take a screenshot of any page in your admin Dashboard and share it with someone else? It couldn't be easier with Admin Screenshots!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Lotos Author Fields
#46,657by Excellent Dynamics2 years ago
This plugin adds additional fields in user info.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Get Remote URL Info
Up in the last 7 days:953#46,715by Oscar de Souza Dias14 years ago
Fetches information about a remote URL and adds it into the post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Erocks Dashboard Lockdown
Down in the last 7 days:2,335#46,774by erikshosting16 years ago
Dashboard Lockout & Buddypress Profile Redirect
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
IP Login
Down in the last 7 days:731#46,779by Luka Petrovic11 years ago
Enables you to login from trusted IP without entering password by specifying ?bypass_login=username parameter on site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Bat Activity Log
#46,797by Jaroslav Svetlik5 months ago
Track important WordPress activity with detailed audit logs, filters, alerts, reports, and integrity checks.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Better Sub Menus
#46,800by adrianifero2 months ago
Collapse and expand nested menu items on Appearance → Menus. Built for sites with long, deep menus.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Big Width
#46,804by xorax18 years ago
In wp 2.5, the width of the admin is limited at 1024 pixel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
All Settings
Down in the last 7 days:6,816#46,831by Seth Lilly12 years ago
Simple plugin that adds an All Settings submenu to the Settings menu for Administrators and above, enabling one-click access to the options.php file.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BP Admin Actions
Down in the last 7 days:7,223#46,849by Slava Abakumov11 years ago
Let admin do some more stuff with users - adding them to any group manually from members list
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Count Post Signs
#46,854by Florian TIAR10 years ago
Counts signs (characters and spaces) in real time while you are writing your content. Works for any kind of "post type" out of the box.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day