Best plugin-only plugins for WordPress
The most popular plugin-only plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. BNS Add Widget leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of BNS Login (30+) and BNS Inline Asides (10+). All 6 plugins tagged “plugin-only” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 plugin-only plugins
- 1.BNS Add Widget
The most installed plugin-only plugin, with 200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 2.
BNS Login30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 3.BNS Inline Asides
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 4.BNS Body Classes
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
All 6 plugins tagged “plugin-only”
BNS Add Widget
Up in the last 7 days:59#11,973by Edward Caissie10 years ago
Add a widget area to the footer of any theme.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

BNS Login
#25,005by Edward Caissie8 years ago
This plugin provides a link, in the theme footer area, to the dashboard when logged in as well as a log out link. A shortcode is also available.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
BNS Inline Asides
Up in the last 7 days:37#32,811by Edward Caissie8 years ago
This plugin will allow you to style sections of the post, or page, content with added emphasis by leveraging a style element from the active theme.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
BNS Body Classes
#46,154by Edward Caissie10 years ago
Simple plugin that adds classes to the body_class output upon activation, including a range of date related classes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day