Best column plugins for WordPress
The most popular column plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Make Column Clickable for Elementor leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Column Shortcodes (60K+) and Equal Height Columns (10K+). All 44 plugins tagged “column” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 column plugins
- 1.
Make Column Clickable for ElementorThe most installed column plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 53 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Column Shortcodes60K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 134 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 3.
Equal Height Columns10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 41 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
Genesis Widget Column Classes5K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 5.
ACF Columns4K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 10 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 6.
Advanced Post Manager4K+ active installs. Rated 3.5 from 11 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 7.
Featured Image Column2K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 12 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Sortable Word Count Reloaded2K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 10 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 9.
Three Column Screen Layout1K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 16 reviews, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 10.
LJ Multi Column Archive1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
All 44 plugins tagged “column”
Make Column Clickable for Elementor
#387by Fernando Acosta13 days ago
Make entire columns, sections and containers clickable in Elementor, with real SEO-friendly links, keyboard access and click tracking.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.9(53)
- Downloads
- 1.3K/day
Column Shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:1#659by Tobias Schutter4 years ago
Adds shortcodes to easily create columns in your posts or pages.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.8(134)
- Downloads
- 82/day
Equal Height Columns
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,924by MIGHTYminnow8 months ago
Easily equalize the height of columns or any collection of elements.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(41)
- Downloads
- 25/day
Genesis Widget Column Classes
#3,103by Jory Hogeveen20 days ago
Adds Genesis column classes to widgets.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 20/day
ACF Columns
Up in the last 7 days:2#3,389by dreihochzwo1 year ago
With the ACF Columns plugin it is possible to arrange ACF fields in column groups in the post editor.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.5(10)
- Downloads
- 32/day
Advanced Post Manager
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,436by Nexcess3 days ago
Turbo charge your posts admin for any custom post type with sortable filters and columns, and auto-registration of metaboxes.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 3.5(11)
- Downloads
- 94/day
Featured Image Column
Up in the last 7 days:11#4,580by Austin2 months ago
Adds a column to any post type edit screen with the featured image if it exists.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.5(12)
- Downloads
- 19/day
Sortable Word Count Reloaded
Down in the last 7 days:5#4,744by apasionados9 months ago
Adds a sortable column to the posts and pages admin list with the word count of each page/post.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.7(10)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Three Column Screen Layout
Down in the last 7 days:22#5,515by Chad Hovell10 years ago
Three, four and five column screen layouts for the post editor.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.8(16)
- Downloads
- 11/day
LJ Multi Column Archive
Down in the last 7 days:5#6,510by littlejon15 years ago
LJ Multi Column Archive is a Wordpress plugin/widget that allows you to display your archive list with multiple columns.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WEN Responsive Columns
Down in the last 7 days:39#7,543by WEN Themes2 years ago
Easily display columnized content in your pages or posts.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 3.7(9)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Timeline Express
Up in the last 7 days:16#8,770by Evan Herman3 years ago
Enable a 'single-column' parameter in Timeline Express to display timelines in a single column.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
HH sortable ID columns
Down in the last 7 days:5#10,795by versusbassz4 years ago
Sortable ID columns for all standard data types in WordPress admin panel.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WC Restore the Purchased Items Column in Orders Page
Up in the last 7 days:8#11,274by theorcawp1 year ago
This plugin restores the “Purchased Items” column in the orders page.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Responsive Table Layout
Down in the last 7 days:14#11,910by Maarten Menten9 years ago
This WordPress plugin provides an easy and user friendly way to make your site's content more responsive.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bootstrap's Columns Controller
Up in the last 7 days:20#12,684by veradeveloper9 years ago
With "Bootstrap's Columns Controller" you can easily use colums to customize your content
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Category Widget
Down in the last 7 days:140#15,585by tepelstreel10 years ago
The Featured Category Widget is basically a Featured Post Widget for a category.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Shortlink & File URL Column
Down in the last 7 days:232#16,575by harman7910 years ago
Adds a shortlink column in post/page, taxonomy and media manage screens. Also retrieves inner post shortlink button as for WP earlier than 4.4.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Page Template Column
Up in the last 7 days:85#16,891by codismo7 years ago
Adds a column to the pages table in WP Admin > Pages displaying the page template used.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Featured Image Column
#18,416by Andre Aguiar Villela7 years ago
A simple plugin that displays the "Featured Image" column in admin post type listing. Supports Post, Pages and Custom Posts.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Columnizer
Down in the last 7 days:61#19,208by TristanChambers14 years ago
Wordpress Plugin to columnize content automatically
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
byBrick Columns
Down in the last 7 days:96#19,358by davidpaulsson14 years ago
A plugin that enables for column based shortcodes.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CSS Columns
#20,088by redwerks14 years ago
Provides a [columns] shortcode that gives a section of post content multiple columns using css3's column properties.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Media Library Thumbnail Enhancer
Down in the last 7 days:174#22,457by Nick Ciske12 years ago
Enhances media library thumbnails by making them larger and replacing the bundled icons with scalable SVG versions.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Taxonomy Columns
Down in the last 7 days:18#23,499by Dutch van Andel15 years ago
Automatically adds custom taxonomy columns to admin list tables.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Category Column
Up in the last 7 days:331#27,256by tepelstreel10 years ago
The Advanced Category Column is a very customizable multi-widget for your sidebar.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Column
Down in the last 7 days:77#27,385by tepelstreel10 years ago
The Category Column does simply, what the name says; it will show excerpts of the latest posts in your sidebar.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Thumbnail Column
Down in the last 7 days:345#28,181by Andrey Ovcharov14 years ago
This plugin adds column with thumbnails for selected post types
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CC-ID-Column
#34,696by Clearcode8 years ago
This plugin adds a column with post ID before the title column on wp-admin posts list.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Post Admin View Count
#36,209by Jon Bishop14 years ago
Adds a sortable column to the admin's post manager, displaying the view count for each post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wp Content Layout
Down in the last 7 days:1,054#36,905by sujit11 years ago
Simple WordPress layout plugin, with the help of this plugin you can create a layout for your content and easily can display on your page or post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Adjust Users Screen
Up in the last 7 days:4,549#42,593by keith_wp10 years ago
Alter the Users screen in the admin, re-ordering the columns and turning individual columns on or off.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Columnizer
#45,486by mbabar86mish11 years ago
Simple columnizer create "Widget Area" with name "Columnizer Widget Area" in admin section with Drag & Drop "Columnizer&q …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CC-Featured-Image-Column
#47,050by Clearcode8 years ago
This plugin adds a column with post's featured image before the title column on wp-admin posts list.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Auto Columns
Down in the last 7 days:4,813#47,743by Andrey Ovcharov14 years ago
Wrap block of text with shortcode. It will be split into columns. Automagically.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BlackIce Admin Date Column fix for WooCommerce
#50,918by Black Ice3 years ago
Adds the full time and date to the date column for those that find the '1 hour ago' stupid.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Blogs Column Data
Up in the last 7 days:2,926#53,050by Best WP Developer2 years ago
A simple plugin to view blog columns, see blog IDs, word counts, and filter blogs by thumbnails.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Local Last Update
#56,655by Topher4 months ago
Shows when each plugin was last updated on your server, right in the plugins list — with a sortable column header.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Page Charts
Down in the last 7 days:9,630#69,595by sidov4 years ago
This plagin lets add charts of some libraries to any page or post of your site. Now you can use charts of Chart and Highcharts softwares.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Snappy Post Word Count
Down in the last 7 days:7,029#70,179by Snappy Plugins3 months ago
Lightweight sortable word count column for your posts list. See exactly which posts need more content, right in your WordPress admin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day