Best administrator plugins for WordPress
The most popular administrator plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Prune WooCommerce Orders leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of Readministrator (Read Only Administrator) (80+) and Delete Own Admin Account (60+). All 22 plugins tagged “administrator” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 administrator plugins
- 1.Prune WooCommerce Orders
The most installed administrator plugin, with 200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.Readministrator (Read Only Administrator)
80+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Delete Own Admin Account60+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 4.
BP Devolved Authority30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 5.
Redirect username10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 6.Dashboard Message
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
- 7.Notifications to all Administrators
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.8.
- 8.Seeder
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 9.Dashboard Admin Email
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
- 10.[TNM] Server Status and Load Average
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
All 22 plugins tagged “administrator”
Prune WooCommerce Orders
Up in the last 7 days:51#12,837by Sean Conklin1 year ago
Adds tools to the WP Admin > WooCommerce > Status > Tools page to move all orders of the selected status and cutoff date into the trash, wher …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Readministrator (Read Only Administrator)
Down in the last 7 days:261#18,061by Dhanendran Rajagopal2 months ago
A read-only administrator role — users can view the entire wp-admin like an admin but cannot change anything.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Delete Own Admin Account
Down in the last 7 days:214#19,112by activity-log.com1 year ago
Adds a safe “Delete Own Account” action to an administrator’s own row in the WordPress Users list, enabling self-removal while preserving site integri …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BP Devolved Authority
Down in the last 7 days:306#24,340by Venutius2 years ago
This plugin allows key aspects of BuddyPress administration to be devolved to non admin users.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Redirect username
#29,641by Artem Sannikov10 years ago
Plugin "Redirect username" does not allow to know the login site administrator via the url address type http://example.ru/?author=1.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dashboard Message
Down in the last 7 days:502#30,003by Nicolas Bouliane16 years ago
Displays a custom message on the dashboard with full HTML/PHP/JavaScript support. Useful for administrator who have clients as users.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Notifications to all Administrators
#30,244by Mehdi Kabab17 years ago
Enable moderation requests and notifications by email to all administrators.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Seeder
Up in the last 7 days:42#33,037by Aaron Holbrook9 years ago
Perform heavy / infrequent actions in a controlled manner.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dashboard Admin Email
Down in the last 7 days:166#33,128by Nicolas Bouliane16 years ago
Displays the administrator's email on the dashboard
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
[TNM] Server Status and Load Average
Up in the last 7 days:5,773#36,473by chriserk11 years ago
The WordPress Server Load Plugin adds a Server Load Averages and Server Uptime widget into your Admin Dashboard and a load average widget to the admin …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dark Login Screen
Up in the last 7 days:6,719#41,143by silver53012 years ago
Change WordPress login screen to dark color to make it more contrast.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Web Administrator User Role
Up in the last 7 days:1,618#44,090by Robert Kampas8 years ago
Plugin that automatically creates custom role for Web Administrators and allows to edit capacities for this role.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Adminimal
#45,311by Ale Urrutia7 years ago
A toolbar for WordPress front-end.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

HTM Custom Areas
Down in the last 7 days:11,710#47,433by oliverhtml11 years ago
Custom areas allows your editors and contributors to create custom areas posts which the admin can then output inside their own posts and sections whi …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Black Login Screen
Down in the last 7 days:7,060#47,940by silver53012 years ago
Change WordPress login screen to black color to make it more contrast.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fluidity Dashboard
#55,258by sightfactory1 year ago
A faster, friendlier dashboard for managing all post types — built with WordPress standards, zero tracking, and local Material icons by default.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Trolla Last Login & Security
Up in the last 7 days:10,196#57,943by kirser2 months ago
Find forgotten, inactive and recently created WordPress Administrator accounts.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

JM Admin Role Lock
#68,409by Jose Mortellaro24 days ago
Keeps the Administrator role limited to users who already have it.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Cambia Utente
Down in the last 7 days:21,282#73,008by Fabio Moro5 months ago
Log in as another user (e.g. a WooCommerce customer) to verify their access, orders and downloads.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day