Best advanced plugins for WordPress
The most popular advanced plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of WordPress Beta Tester (2K+) and oik (2K+). All 51 plugins tagged “advanced” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 advanced plugins
- 1.
Advanced Rich Text Tools for GutenbergThe most installed advanced plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 20 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 2.
WordPress Beta Tester2K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 47 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
oik2K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Admin Search1K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 18 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 5.
ONet Regenerate Thumbnails1K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 11 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 6.
Advanced Custom Fields900+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 7.
Flexible Content Extended for Advanced Custom Fields600+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 8.
Multiple Sidebars500+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 8 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 9.
Global Custom Fields100+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 10.
Query Filter100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
All 51 plugins tagged “advanced”
Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg
#3,732by Ella Van Durpe7 years ago
Additional tools for rich text fields in Gutenberg.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(20)
- Downloads
- 7/day
WordPress Beta Tester
Down in the last 7 days:23#4,529by Andy Fragen2 months ago
Allows you to easily upgrade for testing the next versions of WordPress.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.0(47)
- Downloads
- 348/day
oik
Down in the last 7 days:17#4,935by bobbingwide2 months ago
Over 80 advanced, powerful shortcodes, and 9 blocks for displaying the content of your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Admin Search
Down in the last 7 days:19#5,509by Andrew Stichbury5 months ago
Admin Search adds a simple, easy-to-use interface to your WordPress admin site that gives you and your admin users the ability to search across multip …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(18)
- Downloads
- 24/day
ONet Regenerate Thumbnails
Down in the last 7 days:14#5,660by Konrád Koller9 years ago
Fix missing thumbnails in no time with few easy clicks. The plugin does the hard work.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(11)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:11#7,163by julienbechade9 years ago
Adds a Location field to Advanced Custom Fields. This field allows you to find addresses and coordinates of a desired location.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Flexible Content Extended for Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:20#8,383by Jameel Moses4 years ago
Extends the ACF Flexible Content Field by transforming the layout list into a modal with image previews and editing in a modal for better UX.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Multiple Sidebars
Down in the last 7 days:11#8,553by Andrico12 years ago
A wonderful plugin to easily create many custom sidebars. These sidebars can then select in the creation of a post / page / custom post type / categor …
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.4(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Global Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:71#13,520by Tommaso Meli5 years ago
Create Global Custom fields and save them into WP Options, get them with PHP or use gfc Shortcode
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Query Filter
Up in the last 7 days:35#14,005by marsjaninzmarsa11 years ago
Advanced taxonomy and Custom Fields CPT filtering plugin.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Divi Advanced Custom Types
Down in the last 7 days:103#16,168by capellopablo7 years ago
Generate Post Grid with Divi builder from any post type.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACF Media Credit
Up in the last 7 days:59#16,861by donaldG28 years ago
Adds an option to create as many media credit fields as needed for an image.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Advanced Twitter Profile Widget
Up in the last 7 days:49#17,764by Simivar16 years ago
Adds a sidebar widget to display Twitter updates (using the Javascript). You can set number of messages, color and other features.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACF Stylizer
Down in the last 7 days:104#17,892by Robert Noakes1 year ago
Simple plugin that stylizes Advanced Custom Fields meta boxes to make them more obvious.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day
Advanced Menu Icons
Up in the last 7 days:30#18,938by recorp2 years ago
Add custom SVG or image icons to WordPress menus. Customize icon size, position, color, and margins. Loads only used icons, optimizing site speed and …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
ACF Pro JSON Sync
#19,914by sgengler12 years ago
Sync Advanced Custom Fields fields stored in json files into the database. Ideal for using ACF in multiple environments or in a team setting.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:138#21,294acf-multisite-sync12 years ago
Sync your Advanced Custom Fields to all of your multisite installations with just one click. Needs ACF Pro 5.0+
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Fields
#22,348by Brian S. Reed10 years ago
The Tag It field for ACF using ACF 5's built-in Select2 library.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
PayPal Advanced for Woo
Up in the last 7 days:325#22,567by wpremiumdev10 years ago
PayPal Advanced for WooCommerce. Develop by Official PayPal Partner.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 3.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Up in the last 7 days:38#23,057by bluoma12 years ago
Enables toggling of ACF Flexible Content Fields for easier sorting and management.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACF Conditional Logic Extended
Up in the last 7 days:122#24,697by I. Kancijan4 years ago
Display Field Group based on a field value from another group.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Fields For Elementor Forms
Down in the last 7 days:716#24,706by hulkplugins1 month ago
It adds many extra features and advanced fields to improve your form-building experience with the Elementor form widget.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day
ACF Page Grandchildren
Up in the last 7 days:496#25,995by Navneil Naicker4 years ago
A great way to show group of fields only on grandchildren pages
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Search Tools
#26,501by Peter Stehlík2 years ago
The advanced search plugin shows analytics, what users look for, can export data, highlights search term, extends default WordPress search engine.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Super Search
#27,101by mc2w15 years ago
Generates a drop-down list and a text box to allow your visitors to search for posts within specific categories.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACF Overview
Down in the last 7 days:476#28,088by psychopsia7 years ago
ACF Overview allows to quick view the configuration of all field groups
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Advanced Widgets for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:312#28,717by maecompany7 years ago
Advanced Widgets for Elementor Page Builder.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACF Ajax Grid Gallery
Up in the last 7 days:544#32,612by Jayson Garcia6 years ago
A lightweight extension of Advanced Custom Field (ACF) that adds grid gallery field to any post/pages via shortcode on your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
VK Plugin Beta Tester
Down in the last 7 days:117#32,702by Vektor,Inc.5 years ago
VK Plugin Beta Tester is derived from "Plugin Beta Tester" WordPress Plugin, created by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) Copyright 2013.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACF Additional Hint
Down in the last 7 days:459#33,061by PRESSMAN5 years ago
This plugin enables you to add hint text in ACF field.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Advanced Coupon Conditions for Woocommerce
#37,676by dcurasi9 years ago
Advanced Coupon Conditions for Woocommerce allows you to create coupons with advanced attributes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Comment Control
#38,535by Lew Ayotte10 years ago
Easily control who can comment and when they can comment on any post type.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Fancy Search
Up in the last 7 days:9,454#38,591by vanduy9910 years ago
Fancy Search - is a complete and powerful search engine for fully flexible WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rich Text Extension
Up in the last 7 days:2,349#38,690by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)5 years ago
Rich Text Extension
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACF Slick Slider
Down in the last 7 days:1,567#39,138by Jayson Garcia6 years ago
A lightweight extension of Advanced Custom Field (ACF) that adds slider field to any posts/pages via shortcode on your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Fields Migration Cleanup
#40,217by Michael Cannon14 years ago
Correct and prevent Advanced Custom Fields options migration autoload 'yes' to 'no'.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advamentor
#40,375by ihmeraj7 years ago
Advanced Elements for Elementor WordPress page builder. Multiple elements with highly advanced customization options.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
XE Advanced Recent Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:1,471#40,710by xieno11 years ago
XE advanced recent post widget plugin allows admin to select number of post under multiple categories.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Fields
#42,517by fotype9 years ago
Adds a tokenized text box for saving comma separated values.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:24#45,286by mihdan7 years ago
Addon for Advanced Custom Fields that adds a position field (country/region/city) to the available field types
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Jade Template
Down in the last 7 days:2,326#46,300by xingxing2d12 years ago
WP Jade Template enables to use jade template engine for the wordpress theme's template files.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Web Analytics Integration
Down in the last 7 days:2,330#46,335by Samiullah Kaifi11 years ago
Enables google analytics integration on all pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Page Template
Down in the last 7 days:8,475#47,552by xingxing2d12 years ago
Advanced Page Template is a nice new approach to custom fields by page template.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Forms Processors
Up in the last 7 days:17,413#51,201by Kenyatta9 years ago
Advanced Forms Processors adds form processors to the Advanced Forms plugin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Developer Tools For ACF
#54,390by PRESSMAN8 years ago
Provide developer tools for ACF.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Search Disabler
#64,758by LetoWPDev1 year ago
Advanced Search Disabler ermöglicht es dir, die Suchfunktion auf deiner WordPress-Website gezielt zu deaktivieren.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Talash
Down in the last 7 days:13,767#67,850by Keramot UL Islam4 years ago
Talash is an advanced search plugin for WordPress. Next Level of WordPress search experience.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day