Best administration plugins for WordPress
The most popular administration plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Adminimize leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Remove Dashboard Access (30K+) and Error Log Monitor (20K+). All 167 plugins tagged “administration” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 administration plugins
- 1.Adminimize
The most installed administration plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 254 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 2.
Remove Dashboard Access30K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 78 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 3.Error Log Monitor
20K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 48 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 4.
Automatic Domain Changer10K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 29 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.Relative URL
2K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 26 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 6.WP Hide Dashboard
2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 20 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.0.
- 7.
aapanel WP Toolkit1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 8.Site Health Tool Manager
1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 13 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 9.Users by Date Registered
1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 10.Custom Posts Per Page
800+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 12 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
All 167 plugins tagged “administration”
Adminimize
Down in the last 7 days:2#284by WP Media5 months ago
Adminimize that lets you hide 'unnecessary' items from the WordPress backend
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.7(254)
- Downloads
- 725/day

Remove Dashboard Access
Down in the last 7 days:1#991by TrustedLogin5 months ago
Disable Dashboard access for users of a specific role or capability. Disallowed users are redirected to a chosen URL. Get set up in seconds.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.6(78)
- Downloads
- 169/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

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
Relative URL
Down in the last 7 days:17#4,242by Sparanoid27 days ago
Relative URL applies wp_make_link_relative function to links to convert them to relative URLs.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.2(26)
- Downloads
- 45/day
WP Hide Dashboard
Up in the last 7 days:12#4,853by Drew Jaynes9 years ago
Hide the Dashboard menu, Personal Options section and Help link on the Profile page from your subscribers when they are logged in.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 11/day

aapanel WP Toolkit
Up in the last 7 days:7#5,220by aapanel1 year ago
A better way to manage dozens of WordPress websites.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Site Health Tool Manager
Up in the last 7 days:4#5,221by Will Earnhardt6 years ago
Easily control which tests appear in the the Site Health Tool
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(13)
- Downloads
- 18/day
Users by Date Registered
Down in the last 7 days:22#6,753by Sébastien Dumont7 years ago
Allows you to see the dates users registered on and filter the users by date.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Custom Posts Per Page
Down in the last 7 days:12#7,334by Jeremy Felt12 years ago
Custom Posts Per Page provides a settings page in your WordPress admin that allows you to specify how many posts are displayed for different views.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.8(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Page Management Dropdown
Down in the last 7 days:6#8,299by jaschaephraim11 years ago
Adds a link to edit each individual page to the Pages admin menu.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Plugin Toggle
#8,774by Cedaro1 year ago
Quickly toggle plugin activation status from the toolbar.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.8(18)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Slash Admin
Down in the last 7 days:54#8,946by Giorgos Sarigiannidis24 days ago
Dozens of settings aiming at creating a friendlier administration environment for both Administrators and Editors.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Quotmarks Replacer
Down in the last 7 days:34#10,777by Sparanoid27 days ago
Quotmarks Replacer disables wptexturize function that keeps all quotation marks and suspension points in half-width form.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 10/day
CMS Dashboard
Up in the last 7 days:2#10,839by 3pointross16 years ago
Improve the usability of your Wordpress CMS system. This plug-in creates a dashboard widget with clearly labeled large buttons of the most common task …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Lock Pages
Up in the last 7 days:6#10,925by Steve Taylor8 years ago
Lock Pages prevents specified pages (or all pages), posts, or custom post types from having their slug, parent, status or password edited, or from bei …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Maintenance Mode
Down in the last 7 days:67#11,480by Mukesh Panchal2 years ago
Let's people know that your site is temporarily under maintenance and will back shortly.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 5/day
WP Install Profiles
Down in the last 7 days:14#11,566by rockgod10013 years ago
Download custom collections of plugins automatically from the WordPress plugin directory.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.6(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Nofollow Case by Case
Down in the last 7 days:44#11,737by fob13 years ago
"Dofollow" but Nofollow Case by Case allows you to selectively apply nofollow to your comments as well.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
My Maintenance Mode
Down in the last 7 days:46#11,843by TrueFalse14 years ago
Simple maintenance mode for a site.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LatePoint Manager
Down in the last 7 days:34#13,201by Ashraful Sarkar Naiem4 years ago
LatePoint Manager is a new role for LatePoint - Appointment Booking & Reservation plugin. You can contronl pending Appointment Booking list and ma …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

HideMeIn
Down in the last 7 days:71#14,035by Daniele Alessandra3 years ago
HideMeIn is a WordPress Plugin that hides you from other users’ eyes. Once installed and activated no one will see you in administrators’ dashboard, n …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day

Server Monitor
Up in the last 7 days:53#14,169by vendocrat12 years ago
Adds three simple widgets to your WordPress Dashboard displaying fundamental info about your server and installation.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WorldPay Hosted Payment Gateway
Down in the last 7 days:9#14,761by Priyank Patel6 years ago
Custom worldpay payment gateway for your woocommerce based site.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 1.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Admin Menus Fixed
Up in the last 7 days:59#14,828by spherical6 months ago
Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu + WordPress Toolbar & Admin Menu Fixed to the Top and Side of the Admin Screens. Less Scrolling!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WS Force Login Page
Down in the last 7 days:118#15,648by Silver Muru1 year ago
Redirecting user to login page if not logged in, working also with domains what includes umlaut letters like ö, ä, õ, ü
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Approval Workflow
Up in the last 7 days:43#15,716by ericjuden14 years ago
Approval Workflow is meant to create a workflow process in WordPress. This plugin adds a box to the post edit screen when a user does not have publish …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Multisite Enhancements
Up in the last 7 days:408#15,976by Frank Bueltge2 years ago
Enhance Multisite for Network Admins with different topics
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(49)
- Downloads
- 109/day
Kahi's WP Lite
Up in the last 7 days:290#16,566kahis-wp-lite16 years ago
To hide unused functions from the administration. Make it clear.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Widget Saver
Down in the last 7 days:12#16,866by zorgbargle14 years ago
Saves the current widget layout and allows the layout to be restored at a later date.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Show Theme in Footer
Down in the last 7 days:147#17,506by apasionados9 months ago
Show the active theme name and version in the Admin Footer.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Local Toolbox
Down in the last 7 days:93#18,225by joeguilmette11 years ago
A simple plugin to help manage development over local, staging and production servers.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.6(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Badge
Down in the last 7 days:41#18,261by eroux2 years ago
Display a badge (based the "badges") without requiring file-system access or knowledge of HTML.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kahi's WP Notes
Down in the last 7 days:178#18,395kahis-notes17 years ago
For me, it's the place to keep notes about future articles, possible topics, plans, ToDos connected with that particular WP site.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 2/day

WP JV Custom Email Settings
Down in the last 7 days:83#18,866by Janos Ver6 years ago
Notify users about new posts published and customize your e-mail notification settings
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 3.8(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Currently Reading
Up in the last 7 days:98#19,167by eroux2 years ago
Displays a cover image of a book with a link to Google Books based on a supplied ISBN-10 or ISBN-13.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Show Featured Image Size in Admin TopBar
Down in the last 7 days:161#19,421by apasionados3 years ago
This plugin displays the image size for the featured image size in the admin top bar.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Safe Attachment Names
Down in the last 7 days:261#20,110by nuagelab1 year ago
Automatically detect and change the name of attachments containing special characters such as accented letters.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Treedbox Admin Menu
Down in the last 7 days:29#20,158by treedbox7 years ago
Repositioning your Admin Menu on top
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Media Auto Hash Rename
Down in the last 7 days:211#20,628by Sparanoid27 days ago
Rename media filename during upload with unique hash.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Apex Digital Toolbox
Down in the last 7 days:1,477#21,168by nwells20 days ago
Too many plugins installed to do basic things? Bring some common functions ones into one plugin to make life that little bit easier for developers.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simple Login Redirect
#22,014by kegentile16 years ago
Adds a field to the user's profile for redirection upon login.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Page Template Filter
Down in the last 7 days:555#23,150by Mark / t31os15 years ago
Filter pages or hierarchal custom types by page template.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Admin Switcher
Up in the last 7 days:181#24,075wp-admin-switcher19 years ago
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- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Quick Maintenance
Down in the last 7 days:52#24,366by help4cms10 years ago
WP Quick Maintenance Plugin will help you easily enable maintenance mode on your site or add a coming soon page for a new website.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Disable WYSIWYG
Down in the last 7 days:298#24,611by Sparanoid27 days ago
Disable TinyMCE Visual Editor (WYSIWYG editor) totally completely permanently forever
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Auto Copyright
Up in the last 7 days:26#24,823by phillcoxon10 years ago
Automatically generates a copyright notice based on the first and last post published in the WordPress database.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

siteselector
Up in the last 7 days:68#24,963by scideas9 years ago
siteselector plugin helps you choose a domain name, check it's availability and see your competition
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Easily navigate pages on dashboard
#25,717by tristanbotly15 years ago
Displays a windows explorer style list of your pages on your Dashboard.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Green Active Plugins!
Down in the last 7 days:520#25,822by r-a-y15 years ago
Change your WP admin active plugin's color from light gray to green!
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 2/day