Best backend plugins for WordPress
The most popular backend plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Simple Admin Language Change leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Featured Galleries (3K+) and WPC Admin Columns (1K+). All 56 plugins tagged “backend” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 backend plugins
- 1.
Simple Admin Language ChangeThe most installed backend plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 22 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 2.
Featured Galleries3K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 20 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 3.
WPC Admin Columns1K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 1 week ago.
- 4.
Admin Customizer1K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 16 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 5.
Floating Publish Button1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 12 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
- 6.
Backend Payments for WooCommerce800+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 12 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.Better User Search
600+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 15 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 8.Dashboard Notes
500+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 19 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 9.Admin Notice
500+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 10.
OneSignal Sender300+ active installs. Rated 3.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
All 56 plugins tagged “backend”

Simple Admin Language Change
Up in the last 7 days:11#2,120by Karolina Vyskocilova3 months ago
Change your dashboard language quickly and easily from the admin bar as often as you need.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(22)
- Downloads
- 170/day

Featured Galleries
Down in the last 7 days:49#4,024by Andy Mercer8 years ago
Do you like giving posts a Featured Image? Try out a Featured Gallery. It's like a Featured Images ... except as many images as you want.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.7(20)
- Downloads
- 13/day

WPC Admin Columns
Up in the last 7 days:5#5,893by WPClever7 days ago
WPC Admin Columns offers a listing of columns in the admin dashboards for different post-types.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 63/day

Admin Customizer
Down in the last 7 days:26#6,645by Nilambar Sharma3 years ago
A plugin for customizing your admin panel.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(16)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Floating Publish Button
Down in the last 7 days:23#6,736by Son Do12 years ago
A WordPress plugin that alters the position and behavior of the Publish button, making it stick to the top of the page when scrolling down the page
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Backend Payments for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:15#7,421by bfl2 months ago
Process payments from the WooCommerce Edit Order screen.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.7(12)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Better User Search
Up in the last 7 days:17#8,056by dale3h10 years ago
Better User Search is a must have plugin if you're running WooCommerce. Without it, you're stuck trying to remember every
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(15)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Dashboard Notes
Up in the last 7 days:11#8,654by MIGHTYminnow8 months ago
Easily create notes/instructions in the WordPress admin using any widget you like!
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.7(19)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Admin Notice
Up in the last 7 days:9#8,760by Adam Walter4 years ago
Display a custom notice to all users in the WordPress admin.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 7/day

OneSignal Sender
Down in the last 7 days:124#10,167by marcbousleiman7 years ago
This plugin is an addon to OneSignal - Free Web Push Notifications that gives the user the ability to control (Send, Schedule, Check, Cancel) Notifica …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Customization
Down in the last 7 days:53#11,982by Alex Ciobica15 years ago
Customize your Wordpress backend.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Customizer
Up in the last 7 days:42#12,238by amielucha12 years ago
Add theme's or plugin's options to the WordPress Customizer. Build theme and plugin options accessible from WordPress front-end.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Improved user search in backend
#12,257by Blackbam12 years ago
Improves the search for users in the backend significantly: Search for first name, last, email and more of users instead of only nicename.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SEO SearchTerms Admin
Up in the last 7 days:19#13,102by Julian M.13 years ago
This simple plugin will list all the incoming search terms generated by SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2. You will need to have SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 in …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fast Backend
Down in the last 7 days:82#14,360by WDM11 months ago
Tired of having a slow WordPress admin area? Improve your speed with "Fast Backend" - the lightweight solution for optimizing the WordPress backend.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Frontier Restrict Backend
Down in the last 7 days:151#14,806by finnj3 years ago
Frontier Restrict Backend will restrict users from access to the backend (admin area)
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
MySQLi database layer
Up in the last 7 days:22#14,944by Marko Heijnen13 years ago
MySQL_* functions are deprecated and this plugin creates a layer to use MySQLi instead. So you don't get notices when using PHP 5.5
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin Menus Accessibility
Up in the last 7 days:174#15,981by singhleo8 years ago
Admin Menus Accessibility is a WordPress plugin which adds extra accessibility feature into admin menu.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.8(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bring Back Admin Menu Separators
Up in the last 7 days:27#16,624by bej-soan13 years ago
Get back the menu separators in the new WordPress 3.8+ Admin Interface
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove Ozh unobstrusive credits in footer
Down in the last 7 days:58#16,691by tempor8 years ago
Removes Ozh footer text from the admin backend. Author: Polemos
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WPC Backend Product Filter for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:132#17,533by WPClever22 days ago
WPC Backend Product Filter enables filtering products by any taxonomy in the backend products list.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Tribe Object Cache
Down in the last 7 days:62#17,563by Modern Tribe, Inc.14 years ago
Quickly and easily add object cache support that works across environments. All you have to do is activate the plugin and your install will immediatel …
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 4/day

Smoothscroll
Down in the last 7 days:90#18,173by Mitch10 years ago
Adds smoothscrolling to your website for better user experience.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Login Redirect Url
Up in the last 7 days:205#18,516by Frank Neumann-Staude12 years ago
Redirect a user after login to a specified URL or Page
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Change Titles Case
Up in the last 7 days:201#18,618by Michael5 years ago
The title transformation (converts) plugin adds administration functions to the management of posts, pages, categories and most custom content (ACF Co …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP DB Driver
#20,920by Marko Heijnen11 years ago
An improved database layer for WordPress
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 4/day

Simple Menu
Up in the last 7 days:267#23,391by Eric-Oliver Mächler8 years ago
Hide all non-essential and confusing Items from Admin Menu.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
HRM Work Tracking
#24,469by theode5 years ago
HRM Work Tracking plugin is a complete employee or user time tracking in the WordPress backend.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

FSM Backend Category Organizer
#25,164by Fesomia8 years ago
Allows to present and sort the categories (or any hierarchical taxonomy) on the WordPress backend, displaying them more efficiently in the post's …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ACD Admin Designer
Up in the last 7 days:63#26,263by steffen34ik6 months ago
Customize the WordPress admin interface with modern color schemes, live preview, presets, import and export.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Classic Borders
#27,679by Andy Mercer10 years ago
Starting with the MP6 plugin, and by default in WordPress 3.8, the admin backend has been flattened. This plugin restores classic (3D) borders.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 2/day

WPC Backend Order Filter for WooCommerce
#28,472by WPClever22 days ago
Adds additional filters, allowing you to easily and quickly find the orders you need among hundreds of others.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Ajax Search
Down in the last 7 days:343#29,950by Jim_Panse12 years ago
Tired of hitting the Search button again and again? Search your posts, pages, comments and many others in the WordPress Backend with the help of ajax …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin Tag UI
Down in the last 7 days:359#30,663by divspark5 years ago
Improves the tag sections located in the admin backend (WordPress dashboard) classic editor post screens.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Caregiver
#31,142by Blintux13 years ago
Adds many options for tweaking frontend and backend of your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Post QR Code Link
#33,902by Michael Homeister4 years ago
This plugin shows a QR code with the current permalink in a backend metabox for quick-access to the page/post via tablet or phone.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Admin Bar
#34,606by preukson15 years ago
Clicking on a menu in the admin bar, Browser will open link in new tab.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Materially Flat Admin Theme
Up in the last 7 days:2,033#41,594by goodyduru10 years ago
A theme that adds the material design look to your WordPress backend.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Plugin Categories
#41,899by tormorten12 years ago
Categorize your WordPress Plugins just like you would posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Backend Startpage Customizer
Down in the last 7 days:7,194#43,266by Frank Neumann-Staude12 years ago
Redirect the user after login to a predetermined site in the backend.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
APC Object Cache Backend
Down in the last 7 days:4,177#45,155by Mark Jaquith6 years ago
APC Object Cache provides a persistent memory-based backend for the WordPress object cache. APC must be available on your PHP install.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(14)
- Downloads
- 0/day
LanguageBack
#45,157by moxu14 years ago
Simple , minimalistic plugin that lets you set different locale for frontend and backend.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Easily Integrate Google Analytics
#46,664by Madhu Kiran10 years ago
This plugin allows you to add Google Analytics of your wordpress blog by hooking into wp_head.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin Menu Slide
Up in the last 7 days:689#47,539by Maciej Krawczyk11 years ago
Adds a feature to hide admin menu and make it slide when hovering on the edge of the screen.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

BlackBird Admin
Up in the last 7 days:7,401#55,256by khaleelurehman3 months ago
A modern WordPress admin theme that replaces the default dashboard with a clean, fast, and professional interface.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Sortable Tag Count
Down in the last 7 days:6,421#64,203by Thomas Kujawa2 years ago
This plugin adds a sortable column is added to the admin overview of posts and pages. This contains the number of tags assigned in each case.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Admin Backend Color Coded Post Notes
#65,629by The 215 Guys2 years ago
Allows administrators to leave color-coded notes on posts and pages within the editor, ensuring clear and organized communication.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

beeVisible
#66,735by beewp8 months ago
Speeds up the WordPress admin backend by intelligently caching plugin HTTP requests. Auto-Cache, Auto-Blacklist for faulty domains.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WolfOz taxonomy mbtree
Up in the last 7 days:28#68,525by wolfoz2 years ago
Tree view for metaboxes of taxonomies (products, publications, etc.)
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MACHER.one
Down in the last 7 days:5,581#73,862by MACHER.one1 year ago
MACHER.one is a modular WordPress Suite for professionals. Customize your login, label AI media, and extend the admin area — all from one place.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day