Best manage plugins for WordPress
The most popular manage plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. VOD Infomaniak leads with 20K+ active installs, ahead of iControlWP (900+) and Dashboard Commander (800+). All 37 plugins tagged “manage” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 manage plugins
- 1.
VOD InfomaniakThe most installed manage plugin, with 20K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 5 days ago.
- 2.
iControlWP900+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 63 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.Dashboard Commander
800+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 8 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 4.
Posts Columns Manager800+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 13 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 5.
UpStream500+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 74 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 6.Plugins Load Order
500+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 7.
Manage Enrollment for LearnDash400+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 8.Central Connect
300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 3 months ago.
- 9.cPanel Manager (from iControlWP)
200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 10.Magic Template Holder
100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
All 37 plugins tagged “manage”

VOD Infomaniak
#1,248by Infomaniak Network5 days ago
Easily embed and manage videos from Infomaniak VOD in your posts, comments and RSS feeds. You need an Infomaniak VOD account to use this plugin.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 342/day

iControlWP
Down in the last 7 days:19#6,979by Paul12 days ago
Manage all your WordPress sites in one place - updates, uptime, backups & security.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.8(63)
- Downloads
- 44/day
Dashboard Commander
Down in the last 7 days:8#7,290by Josh Hartman4 months ago
Command your admin dashboard. Manage built-in widgets and dynamically registered widgets. Hide widgets depending upon user capabilities.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.8(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Posts Columns Manager
Up in the last 7 days:28#7,441by Serhiy Zakharchenko3 years ago
Did you ever want to add some custom columns to the posts overview page?
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day

UpStream
Down in the last 7 days:16#8,650by upstreamplugin3 months ago
UpStream is a free but very powerful project management plugin for WordPress.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.2(74)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Plugins Load Order
Down in the last 7 days:34#9,056by Jose Barrera Mayoral1 year ago
Allows you to change the order in which plugins will be loaded by Wordpress
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Manage Enrollment for LearnDash
Up in the last 7 days:8#9,934by Pankaj Agrawal1 year ago
Manage Enrollment for LearnDash, lets you enroll users to courses or groups in bulk. You can select users from a given UI, paste a list of users or us …
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 1.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Central Connect
Down in the last 7 days:3#10,014by InMotion Hosting4 months ago
Connects users and sites with InMotion Central.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 2.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
cPanel Manager (from iControlWP)
Down in the last 7 days:1#12,130by Paul9 years ago
The cPanel Manager plugin from iControlWP: Secure Multiple WordPress Management
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Magic Template Holder
Up in the last 7 days:3#13,221by Nora9 years ago
Enables to Handle ( insert, make, edit ) Templates on Editor.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
User Management Tools
Up in the last 7 days:55#13,869by scribu14 years ago
Allows super-admins to quickly add users to a particular blog in a multisite installation.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Manage/Remove version number from CSS & JS
Up in the last 7 days:24#14,510by Chetan Vaghela4 months ago
Manage, remove, or replace CSS and JavaScript version numbers with file modified timestamps for better cache management.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 5/day

DigiTimber cPanel Integration
Up in the last 7 days:12#15,029by DigiTimber1 year ago
DigiTimber cPanel Integration allows users to access basic cPanel functionality from within WordPress. This plugin was created initially for our own u …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Background Update Notification Email Address
Down in the last 7 days:79#15,636by Kanuka Digital11 years ago
Change the email address update notifications are sent to following an automatic background update.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fibre
Down in the last 7 days:1,804#21,592by Tom Greenwood10 months ago
Manage your WordPress websites remotely and learn what you can improve or fix.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Subscribe to Comments Reloaded Better Unsubscribe
Up in the last 7 days:90#21,781by FolioVision10 years ago
Unsubscribing from comment notifications is not quick and easy enough in Subscribe to Comments Reloaded. This addon plugin fixes that.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Simple Redirect
Up in the last 7 days:307#23,157by Arevico10 years ago
Create short links and redirect in your WordPress dashboard, both simple links as well as regular expression matching.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Js Css Include Manager
Up in the last 7 days:99#23,555by gqevu6bsiz11 years ago
This plug-in is a will clean the file management. You can only manage the screen. You can also only site the screen.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Manage Plugins
Down in the last 7 days:193#23,961by Brad Williams17 years ago
An easy way to give you more control over the plugins section of WordPress
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Manageable
Down in the last 7 days:8#24,637by Aaron Harp18 years ago
Inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the "Manage" admin sect …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BP Group Management
Down in the last 7 days:415#26,581by Boone Gorges13 years ago
Allows site administrators to manage group membership on versions of BuddyPress earlier than 1.7.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ChimpPress
Down in the last 7 days:422#30,571by Andy Charrington14 years ago
ChimpPress is a new way to manage your MailChimp campaigns right from your WordPress Dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Restore Exact Time
#34,556by nickohrn18 years ago
Changes the date columns in the post and page interfaces to display exact times that a post or page was published.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MySitesManager Updates Checker
Down in the last 7 days:496#34,672by leftofcentre12 years ago
www.mysitesmanager.com is the easy way to manage multiple WordPress sites. We take the headache out of managing lots of sites by giving you a simple d …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Tag Manager
Down in the last 7 days:1,286#39,064by ZephyrWest19 years ago
An advanced tag manager that seamlessly integrates into WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Manage Pages Custom Columns
#41,678by scompt17 years ago
Replicates the custom column feature of the Manage Posts page for the Manage Pages page. Obsolete as of WP 2.4.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Plugin Name
Down in the last 7 days:4,309#46,933by oQeySites15 years ago
oQey Headers plugin is a Wordpress Plugin that allows to add and manage images for blog header easily.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Admin Task List
Down in the last 7 days:6,649#56,020by Alireza Jafari3 years ago
A WordPress plugin to task manager for administrator
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Media Attachment Bulk Move
Down in the last 7 days:7,322#64,211by Sun Phetkong2 months ago
View and bulk move media attachments between posts/pages directly from the post editor.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Content By Role
Up in the last 7 days:2,244#65,401by mguay228 years ago
Content By Role allows for multiple redirects to be added to a restricted page based off of the user's role on the site.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Jits Role Editor
Down in the last 7 days:18,116#71,465by William1 year ago
Manage WordPress roles easily: create, edit, assign or remove user roles easily and intuitively.
- 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