Best child plugins for WordPress
The most popular child plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Child Theme Configurator leads with 300K+ active installs, ahead of Child Themify (6K+) and WPS Child Theme Generator (6K+). All 23 plugins tagged “child” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 child plugins
- 1.
Child Theme ConfiguratorThe most installed child plugin, with 300K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 280 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.Child Themify
6K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 42 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 3.
WPS Child Theme Generator6K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.SureFeedback Client Site
5K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 39 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.Gecka Submenu
2K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 16 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 6.
Child Theme Check700+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 7.PS Sub-pages
100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago.
- 8.Category Parent Children Selector
100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 9.Remove Parents
90+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 19 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.3.
- 10.Child Themes
60+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
All 23 plugins tagged “child”

Child Theme Configurator
#180by lilaeamedia1 year ago
When using the Customizer is not enough - Create a child theme from your installed themes and customize styles, templates, functions and more.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 4.7(280)
- Downloads
- 538/day
Child Themify
Up in the last 7 days:4#2,732by J B8 years ago
Create child themes with the click of a button.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.2(42)
- Downloads
- 22/day

WPS Child Theme Generator
Up in the last 7 days:5#2,869by NicolasKulka2 months ago
Create your child theme with options. Customize it many options.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 34/day
SureFeedback Client Site
Up in the last 7 days:10#3,047by Brainstorm Force2 months ago
Provides a secure connection between your SureFeedback parent and client sites, syncing identities for WordPress-based commenting.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.0(39)
- Downloads
- 54/day
Gecka Submenu
Down in the last 7 days:5#4,286by Gecka9 years ago
Submenu autopopulates any nav menu page item with its children and allows to put menus, or portion of menus, anywhere in your site.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.1(16)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Child Theme Check
Down in the last 7 days:39#7,700by Torsten Landsiedel5 months ago
Warns you about outdated template files in your child theme and shows a diff view of the changes between parent and child theme template.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
PS Sub-pages
Down in the last 7 days:87#16,267by jeff.cave13 years ago
Shows the child pages of the current page. Configurable title, show siblings (or not), and "no child" text
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Parent Children Selector
Down in the last 7 days:47#16,581by WenZe12 years ago
Helps you in selecting parent-children categories.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Remove Parents
Down in the last 7 days:566#16,941by alekc19 years ago
Remove Parents is a tiny plugin which remove "category" and parent categories from permalink.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Child Themes
Down in the last 7 days:6#19,060by Chris Taylor9 years ago
Create a child theme really easily from any installed theme.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
PJW Query Child Of
#22,517by Peter Westwood15 years ago
This plugin allows you to run loops within your WordPress templates where you query for children of the current page.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Child Page Tree
Down in the last 7 days:103#25,374by Hans-Helge Buerger10 years ago
Display a page tree of all child pages of the current site
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Child pages as boxes with title,content and image
Down in the last 7 days:285#27,081by touchwithsridhar10 years ago
This plugin Set the list of child pages as square boxes in parent page.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SF Category Menu
Up in the last 7 days:316#28,481by Studiofreya8 years ago
Easy treeview menu for WordPress categories.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Menu Child Indicator
Up in the last 7 days:451#30,101by macbookandrew5 years ago
Adds the css class .has-children to menu items that have a submenu to allow css styling.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SF Bootstrap Menu
Up in the last 7 days:303#30,322by Studiofreya8 years ago
Responsive sidebar menu wdiget for hierarchical pages with Bootstrap 3.0.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Page Hierarchy Widget
Up in the last 7 days:371#31,779by BeardedGinger12 years ago
Displays the most logical arrangement of Parent, Child, & Grandchild pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Change Comment Parent
Up in the last 7 days:7,581#38,656by Dmitriy Amirov11 years ago
Simple plug-in for editing the parent comments to any user comments. Use it to edit the threaded structure comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Child Theme Creator
Up in the last 7 days:687#45,749by tarosnow10 years ago
Create a child theme properly in a single click!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wpp Easy Child Generator
#46,733by piyushkapoor78611 years ago
wpp easy Child Generator is a sidebar widget that create child theme of your selected theme.Plugins supports the selection of theme and use .
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Allow2
Down in the last 7 days:1,155#50,591by allow28 years ago
Allow2 Parental Freedom Platform The Allow2 WordPress plugin is a simple plug and play drop in component that empowers your site to offer full parent …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day