Best guest plugins for WordPress
The most popular guest plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Guest Author leads with 5K+ active installs, ahead of Post Password Token (600+) and User Switcher (100+). All 12 plugins tagged “guest” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 guest plugins
- 1.
Guest AuthorThe most installed guest plugin, with 5K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 13 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Post Password Token600+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 7 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 3.
User Switcher100+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 7 reviews, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 4.
Hide/Unhide Menu for Guest/Member40+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 5.
Comment Pub20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 6.
Post As Guest10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 7.
WP Guest Bar10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 8.
Ciusan Restrict Widget10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 9.
Show content to only guest10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 10.
Guest UserFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
All 12 plugins tagged “guest”
Guest Author
Down in the last 7 days:1#3,009by WebFactory2 months ago
Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.2(13)
- Downloads
- 35/day
Post Password Token
Up in the last 7 days:6#8,513by Shawn Parker3 years ago
The Post Password Token plugin allows readers to access protected posts without having to enter a password by creating secret token urls for the post.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.9(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
User Switcher
Up in the last 7 days:43#14,984by irenem10 years ago
A helper tool to help you switch between user account without logging in and out.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hide/Unhide Menu for Guest/Member
#21,700by Freddie Aziz Jasbindar2 years ago
Hide/Unhide Menu for Guest/Member is a simple plugin that you can easily manage to hide or unhide menu for guest and member via css.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Comment Pub
Down in the last 7 days:40#25,448by nowmediagroup13 years ago
Create a guestbook or local avatars or unique comments. The images be will resized on upload and originals deleted.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post As Guest
#30,314by PowieT9 years ago
Post as Guest - Creates a form (shortcode) to a page to allow guests to post content.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Guest Bar
Up in the last 7 days:8,869#36,328by Marco Milesi1 month ago
Add a customizable guest bar to your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ciusan Restrict Widget
#44,441by Dannie Herdyawan11 years ago
Ciusan Restrict Widget can show message for user loggedin or for user not loggedin only in widget area.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Show content to only guest
Down in the last 7 days:1,154#46,917by M. Ibrahim7 years ago
Shortcode that shows content to only guest. Supports short code too.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Guest User
Down in the last 7 days:11,618#64,697by Palasthotel GmbH11 days ago
Label users as guests: they can be credited as post authors, but cannot sign in.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Content visibility manager
#73,801by Kristaps9 years ago
The plugin allows to show/hide content in the shortcode. The plugin allows to display the message if not logged in and allow to show data only to gues …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day