Best developers plugins for WordPress
The most popular developers plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Hide products count leads with 300+ active installs, ahead of WP Utility Script Runner (70+) and Admin Page Framework (70+). All 30 plugins tagged “developers” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 developers plugins
- 1.
Hide products countThe most installed developers plugin, with 300+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 6 reviews, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 2.
WP Utility Script Runner70+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
- 3.
Admin Page Framework70+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 23 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 4.Get Tweets in PHP
40+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 5.
Simple Pictures Slider30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 6.Back End Instructions
30+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 9 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
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Error Logs Emailer for WooCommerce20+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
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CC Devs20+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 9.WP Country Class In Body Tag
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
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Simple Picture Fancybox10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 5 months ago.
All 30 plugins tagged “developers”

Hide products count
Down in the last 7 days:32#10,990by Joan Boluda9 years ago
Hide products count in category view in WooCommerce
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 6/day

WP Utility Script Runner
Up in the last 7 days:114#18,328by Bytes.co8 years ago
Create custom scripts and manage them directly from the WordPress Dashboard. Schedule scripts, handle user input, download reports, and more.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin Page Framework
Down in the last 7 days:61#18,580by miunosoft4 years ago
Facilitates WordPress plugin and theme development.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(23)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Get Tweets in PHP
Down in the last 7 days:476#21,976by azanelli10 years ago
Get latest tweets from a Twitter account with a couple of lines of PHP, and do anything you want with them.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Pictures Slider
Down in the last 7 days:168#23,121by Tom Baumgarten2 years ago
A simple plugin to display a picture slider. Light, efficient and compatible with ACF. Best for developers.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Back End Instructions
#24,645by Doodlebee12 years ago
Plugin for WordPress developers to provide easy "how to use" instructions to their clients.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.8(9)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Error Logs Emailer for WooCommerce
#25,540by Michal Slepko9 months ago
Sends the previous day's WooCommerce fatal error log to specified email(s) using Action Scheduler.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day

CC Devs
Down in the last 7 days:71#28,681by John Hawkins3 years ago
Adds the ability to easily CC developers on all admin emails
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Country Class In Body Tag
Down in the last 7 days:1,196#32,262by kashanshah8 years ago
This plugin is developed to add visitor's country class on the body tag of the page to use in displaying country based content on the website! By …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Picture Fancybox
Down in the last 7 days:2,942#37,849by Tom Baumgarten5 months ago
A simple plugin to display a fancybox. Light, efficient. Best for developers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Style Switcher
Up in the last 7 days:118#40,341by nextiteration8 years ago
Let clients test simple style changes on the front end, to help make final decisions.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Debug User/Post/Options Meta Data
Up in the last 7 days:5,439#40,884by franmc10 years ago
Debug User/Post/Options Meta Data plugin lets administrators debug users and posts meta data in a friendly view.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Privacy Notice
Down in the last 7 days:3,603#42,448by Joseph Hinson14 years ago
This plugin simply adds a notice in the admin bar if search engines are not enabled. This plugin helps you check yo'self before you wreck yo' …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fonk
#44,120by Fonk Cape Town6 years ago
Send Slack notifications from anywhere in your theme to a Slack workspace and channel of your choice.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Minimal Shortcode UI
Down in the last 7 days:2,366#45,740by Max10 years ago
Allows theme/plugin developers to make their custom shortcodes easily accessible to their users through a modal dialog from the content editor.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Theme and Plugin (T&P) Profiler
Down in the last 7 days:7,075#48,101by Christian Jongeneel10 years ago
Make your theme or plugin faster, greener and smarter with this plugin, that will tell you which of your functions is eating up most server time.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Lazy Lorem Ipsum
Down in the last 7 days:8,663#48,135by Joan Boluda9 years ago
Adds a couple of lorem ipsum paragraphs to any blank page or post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hello WEBCHUCK
Up in the last 7 days:12,681#57,979by webpunks8 years ago
This is just a simple plugin. When activated you will randomly see a quote from Chuck Norris in the upper right of your admin screen.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
football_game_by_kashanshah
Up in the last 7 days:7,242#61,510by kashanshah8 years ago
This is a very simple football game. It may easily be added to any wordpress site to attract the visitors as FIFA Wordl Cup 2018 is just here.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

LH Log Queries and hooks
Down in the last 7 days:7,459#62,197by shawfactor4 years ago
Decisions not options for query and hook logging
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MatCMS
Down in the last 7 days:9,625#69,546by matmattia2 months ago
This plugin adds to WordPress some utilities for developers.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Beta Flags … now with A/B Testing!
#73,626by Charles Jaimet8 years ago
Thanks to: James Williams, whose plugin inspired this one (https://github.com/jamesrwilliams/feature-flags)
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day