Best preferences plugins for WordPress
The most popular preferences plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Resizable Sidebar for the Gutenberg Block Editor leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of SeeMax Resizable Editor Sidebar (100+) and Disable Meta Box Resizing (100+). All 5 plugins tagged “preferences” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 preferences plugins
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Resizable Sidebar for the Gutenberg Block EditorThe most installed preferences plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 9 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
SeeMax Resizable Editor Sidebar100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
Disable Meta Box Resizing100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
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Clean Admin Bar Removal50+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
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User-Cats Manager10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 18 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.5.
All 5 plugins tagged “preferences”
Resizable Sidebar for the Gutenberg Block Editor
Up in the last 7 days:16#3,852by Toast Plugins1 month ago
An intuitive solution to make the default WordPress Gutenberg sidebar resizable.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 76/day
SeeMax Resizable Editor Sidebar
Down in the last 7 days:48#13,853by seemaxwork21 month ago
A simple button interface to make the WordPress Gutenberg sidebar resizable.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Disable Meta Box Resizing
Up in the last 7 days:350#15,937by Acato2 months ago
Turn off the resizable meta box panel that WordPress 7.0 added to the bottom of the post editor. Set per user.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 14/day
Clean Admin Bar Removal
Up in the last 7 days:33#21,029by Christiann15 years ago
Allows you to hide the top admin bar in WP 3.2+ on the public site by changing user preferences en masse for both existing and new users.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
User-Cats Manager
Down in the last 7 days:2,170#40,051by dgmike18 years ago
Provides to admin users a way to select what categorie determined users can write. (administrators have access to all categories)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day