Best cms plugins for WordPress
The most popular cms plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. White Label CMS leads with 200K+ active installs, ahead of List category posts (70K+) and Cornerstone (20K+). All 120 plugins tagged “cms” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 cms plugins
- 1.
White Label CMSThe most installed cms plugin, with 200K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 114 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 2.
List category posts70K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 254 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 3.Cornerstone
20K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 6 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 4.
Rich Table of Contents20K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 17 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.
Simple Post Type Permalinks8K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 6.
List categories5K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 15 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.
Admin Management Xtended5K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 18 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 8.
Restrict Widgets4K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 36 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 9.Page Excerpt
3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 10.
Powerful Posts Per Page (PPPP)1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
All 120 plugins tagged “cms”

White Label CMS
#233by Video User Manuals4 months ago
Customise dashboard panels and branding, hide menus plus lots more.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.7(114)
- Downloads
- 708/day

List category posts
#549by Fernando Briano4 months ago
Very customizable plugin to list posts by category (or tag, author and more) in a post, page or widget. Uses the [catlist] shortcode to select posts.
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.7(254)
- Downloads
- 237/day
Cornerstone
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,140by Archetyped1 month ago
Enhanced content management for WordPress
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.0(6)
- Downloads
- 43/day

Rich Table of Contents
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,289by Croover.inc1 year ago
RTOC is a table of contents generation plugin from Japan that allows anyone to easily create a table of contents. Equipped with the functions of the c …
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.1(17)
- Downloads
- 48/day

Simple Post Type Permalinks
Down in the last 7 days:11#2,341by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)7 years ago
Easy to change Permalink of custom post type.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 27/day

List categories
Up in the last 7 days:1#3,106by Fernando Briano1 month ago
Simple plugin to display categories in any post or page with a shortcode.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.5(15)
- Downloads
- 25/day

Admin Management Xtended
Up in the last 7 days:5#3,187by wpseek4 days ago
Adds AJAX-driven options to some admin management pages with CMS-known functions without having to open the edit screens.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.6(18)
- Downloads
- 36/day

Restrict Widgets
Down in the last 7 days:7#3,507by dFactory9 years ago
All in one widgets and sidebars management in WordPress. Allows you to hide or display widgets on specified pages and restrict access for users.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.8(36)
- Downloads
- 21/day
Page Excerpt
Down in the last 7 days:8#4,075by Jeremy Massel9 years ago
This plugin adds the same functionality of the excerpt feature in posts to pages.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Powerful Posts Per Page (PPPP)
Down in the last 7 days:18#6,580by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)7 years ago
Posts per page for custom post types and taxonomies.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 9/day

Next Page, Not Next Post
Down in the last 7 days:13#6,910by Matt McInvale12 years ago
Easily create navigation to sibling pages. Similar to next_post_link() and previous_post_link() but for pages.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 10/day
Blog-in-Blog
Up in the last 7 days:52#7,390by timhodson9 months ago
This plugin shows posts from a category on any page you like using shortcodes. Create multiple blogs within a blog using a category.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(16)
- Downloads
- 11/day
More Types
Down in the last 7 days:12#7,853by henrikmelin15 years ago
Adds any number of extra Post types, besides Post and Page, for the WordPess Admin. Also allows for special editing rights for specific User roles for …
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
SuperCPT
Down in the last 7 days:26#8,336by Matthew Boynes13 years ago
Insanely easy and attractive custom post types, custom post meta, and custom taxonomies
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Better Section Navigation
Down in the last 7 days:65#8,380by cornershop11 months ago
Creates a new widget for listing section-based navigation -- essential for contextual navigation. Also implements a template function and a shortcode.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 9/day

My Upload Images
Down in the last 7 days:41#9,737by Mizuho Ogino9 years ago
Create metabox with media uploader. It allows to upload and sort images in any post_type.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
WP Headless
Up in the last 7 days:16#10,593by Joe Bailey-Roberts7 years ago
A lightweight plugin to disable the WP frontend experience.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Pagely MultiEdit
Up in the last 7 days:18#10,838by joshua strebel10 years ago
MultiEdit adds tinyMCE editable "blocks" to WordPress custom page templates.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/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
More Taxonomies
Down in the last 7 days:88#11,517by henrikmelin15 years ago
Add more taxonomies to your WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Relations Post Types
Down in the last 7 days:10#11,933by Amaury Balmer13 years ago
This plugin allow to build relation between 2 custom types (posts, page, custom), very useful for manage related content on CMS type website.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Hide Update Reminder Message
Down in the last 7 days:7#12,183by sumitbansal0546 years ago
Hides the Update Reminder in the Admin for all non Admin users.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Front Page Scheduler
Down in the last 7 days:71#12,633by Ederson Peka10 days ago
Choose an alternate static front page to a specific daily period.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Nice Navigation
Down in the last 7 days:30#12,795by Pär Thernström14 years ago
A widget that add a list of your pages as a list with option to expand and collaps the page tree with a nice slide animation effect.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Expandable/Collapsible Menu
Up in the last 7 days:3#12,981by Cynob IT Consultancy10 years ago
Adds a widget that makes your 'all page list' or 'menu' with slide expandable and collapsible effect.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.8(9)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Unlimited Page Sidebars
Down in the last 7 days:45#14,559by Ederson Peka10 days ago
Assign one specific widget area (sidebar) to each page.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Shortcode Generator
Down in the last 7 days:22#16,122by kylegetson17 years ago
Generate as many shortcodes. Keep pages synchronized for split testing, or reuse a specific peice of code on multiple pages.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Extended Table of Contents (with nextpage support)
Up in the last 7 days:58#16,788by Web.Cloud.Apps. GmbH8 years ago
This plugin automatically generates and inserts a table of contents (ToC) to your pages and posts, based on tags h1-h6. It can deal with nextpage-tag.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.0(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Headway Views
Down in the last 7 days:95#21,819by Amir Helzer13 years ago
Create your unique content blocks right from within the Headway Grid editor using the Views plugin.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Page Parts
Up in the last 7 days:303#22,515by Ben Huson18 days ago
Manage page sections with nested page parts, display content across template areas, and easily duplicate pages and their child page parts.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Custom Category Listing Page
Down in the last 7 days:103#22,774by TRooInbound7 years ago
Custom Category Listing Page Allow to List Category Posts for each Category by Order ex: [post_listing]
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Search & Index Page Content
Up in the last 7 days:204#22,827by adaldesign12 years ago
Provides a sidebar widget that indexes and links to the headers in the content of any page/post and allows users to perform on-page search.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ryans Simple CMS
Down in the last 7 days:8#23,088by Ryan Hellyer8 years ago
The Simple CMS plugin converts your WordPress admin panel into a simple CMS. This is aimed at web designers who want to provide a simple adminstration …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Navigation Du Lapin Blanc
Down in the last 7 days:182#23,754by bjoerne9 years ago
This plugin provides integrated navigation for your website. Use WordPress as a CMS for your website and think in navigation terms (main, sub etc.)
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Exporter for Webflow
Down in the last 7 days:107#23,925by Flow Guys7 months ago
Export Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types to Webflow-ready CSV files.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Horizontal Carousel
Up in the last 7 days:15#24,065by Cynob IT Consultancy10 years ago
Using this plugin, you can put horizontal image slider with the help of shortcode used after installing plug in.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.8(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ghost Importer
#24,564by tysonarmstrong9 years ago
Import posts, images, tags and settings from a Ghost export file into Wordpress.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 0/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

MJM Clinic
Down in the last 7 days:500#26,562by damanic2 years ago
A handy plugin to help promote health clinics and services using Wordpress CMS.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
CMS Navigation
Down in the last 7 days:214#27,372by Amir Helzer15 years ago
Out-of-the-box support for full CMS navigation in your WordPress site including drop down menus, breadcrumbs trail and sidebar navigation.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pagination for Pages
Down in the last 7 days:423#27,477by Matt McInvale13 years ago
Easily create pagination type navigation between pages (or any other custom post type)
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 1.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Blocky!
Down in the last 7 days:273#28,286by Cameron Jones11 years ago
Blocky! is a revolutionary new way to manage your content and add additional sections to your page content with no theme editing required!
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Conditional Custom Fields Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:235#29,119by ctltwp17 years ago
Use custom field values in you pages or posts. With conditional supports which enables basic templating with custom fields.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Supple Forms
Down in the last 7 days:241#30,064by Byron17 years ago
Supple Forms - a CMS plugin for WordPress to create custom write panels, and format and insert values into Posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Remove posts from WP-admin dashboard
Down in the last 7 days:81#31,157by sebvandijk16 years ago
Remove posts from admin menu
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
bSuite
Down in the last 7 days:375#31,414by Casey Bisson14 years ago
A suite of tools used to help surface interesting and popular stories as well as improve WordPress' CMS capabilities as an application platform.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP API
#32,211by myflashlab14 years ago
Wordpress api in JSON format
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 1/day
WPML JSON API
Up in the last 7 days:23#32,954by dzachary14 years ago
An extension to JSON-API for sites using the WPML Multilingual CMS plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Page Layout
#33,482by baol777716 years ago
Page Layout allows to define a page layout using widgets.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day