Best settings plugins for WordPress
The most popular settings plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. One Click Demo Import leads with 1M+ active installs, ahead of CMB2 (300K+) and Import / Export Customizer Settings (50K+). All 107 plugins tagged “settings” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 settings plugins
- 1.
One Click Demo ImportThe most installed settings plugin, with 1M+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 79 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
CMB2300K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 91 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.
Import / Export Customizer Settings50K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Custom PHP Settings10K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 15 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.
Catch Themes Demo Import5K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 3 months ago.
- 6.
Custom Global Variables5K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 7.
Starter Templates by Gradient Themes2K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 months ago.
- 8.
Display HTML Sitemap1K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.
Custom Posts Per Page800+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 12 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 10.
ThemeKit For WordPress600+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4.
All 107 plugins tagged “settings”
One Click Demo Import
#62by Syed Balkhi6 months ago
Import your demo content, widgets and theme settings with one click. Theme authors! Enable simple theme demo import for your users.
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.3(79)
- Downloads
- 2.5K/day
CMB2
#192by Justin Sternberg13 days ago
CMB2 is a metabox, custom fields, and forms library for WordPress that will blow your mind.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 5.0(91)
- Downloads
- 2.6K/day
Import / Export Customizer Settings
Up in the last 7 days:6#733by Brainstorm Force2 months ago
Astra theme customizer offers several settings for header/footer layout, sidebar and blog designs, colors, backgrounds, typography and much more.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.7(6)
- Downloads
- 129/day
Custom PHP Settings
Down in the last 7 days:3#1,882by cyclonecode11 months ago
This plugin makes it possible to override php settings.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.4(15)
- Downloads
- 42/day
Catch Themes Demo Import
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,115by Catch Plugins4 months ago
Catch Themes Demo Import is a simple and easy-to-use demo importer WordPress plugin that allows you to import the theme demo data
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 49/day
Custom Global Variables
Down in the last 7 days:13#3,174by oden77777 days ago
Easily create custom variables that can be accessed globally in Wordpress and PHP. Retrieval of information is extremely fast, with no database calls.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 110/day
Starter Templates by Gradient Themes
Down in the last 7 days:34#4,225by Gradient Themes4 months ago
Setup you site with dummy data easily. Import settings, widgets and content with one click. Your dummy data must have ZIP file of xml, dat and wie fi …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 33/day
Display HTML Sitemap
Down in the last 7 days:15#6,509by Dipak Kumar Pusti2 months ago
Display HTML Sitemap creates a configurable HTML sitemap supporting Pages, Posts, and Custom Post Types, with reorder and exclude options.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Custom Posts Per Page
Down in the last 7 days:2#7,318by Jeremy Felt12 years ago
Custom Posts Per Page provides a settings page in your WordPress admin that allows you to specify how many posts are displayed for different views.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.8(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
ThemeKit For WordPress
Up in the last 7 days:16#8,053by Josh Lyford15 years ago
Supercharge your WordPress themes and plugins with powerful features that are easy to create.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Custom Posts Per Page Reloaded
Down in the last 7 days:25#8,143by WPZOOM3 months ago
Set how many posts are displayed per page for each view type — home, categories, tags, authors, archives, search, and custom post types.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day
Admin Options Pages
Down in the last 7 days:8#9,117by Johannes van Poelgeest24 days ago
Create options pages, menus and fields without code. Use the values with get_option(), a shortcode or a block.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 17/day
WP Logout Redirect
Up in the last 7 days:80#9,691by HasinHayder10 months ago
A simple yet powerful plugin that redirects users to a custom URL after logout. Featuring a modern, accessible admin panel with dark mode support.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CFS Options Screens
Down in the last 7 days:7#9,893by Jon Christopher4 years ago
Create options screens that utilize Custom Field Suite
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Intervention
Down in the last 7 days:76#11,054by Darren Jacoby3 years ago
Less But Better — Dieter Rams.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
i-Divi Post Settings
Up in the last 7 days:23#11,405by dangub868 years ago
The plugin add some fields in Divi Theme Customizer for setting your favorite default post, page and project settings. Once you have set them when you …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
CMB2 Admin Extension
Down in the last 7 days:34#11,418by twoelevenjay27 days ago
Create and manage CMB2 meta boxes from the WordPress admin without writing code.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
CMB2 Taxonomy
Down in the last 7 days:1#11,648cmb2-taxonomy11 years ago
CMB2 Taxonomy will create metaboxes and forms with custom fields for your taxonomies using the CMB2 API (and yes, it will blow your mind too).
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Admin Customization
Down in the last 7 days:54#11,993by Alex Ciobica15 years ago
Customize your Wordpress backend.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Settings 3
Down in the last 7 days:61#12,649by Helmut Wandl15 days ago
Adds settings that you might expect to find in the WordPress core.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.9(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Global Setting
Up in the last 7 days:6#14,916by victor4g13 years ago
Global Setting allows you to add, update and delete the global variables for your blog. Get Paid version at : http://just4u.x10.bz/global
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ConfigPress
Down in the last 7 days:40#15,302by AAM Plugin11 years ago
An easy way to manage all your website custom settings.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Xolo Websites
Down in the last 7 days:51#16,825by Xolo Software3 years ago
FREE TEMPLATES FOR ELEMENTOR PAGE BUILDER
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Readministrator (Read Only Administrator)
Up in the last 7 days:285#17,400by Dhanendran Rajagopal2 months ago
A read-only administrator role — users can view the entire wp-admin like an admin but cannot change anything.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DevBrothers Admin Panel
Up in the last 7 days:21#17,420by DevBrothers4 months ago
Centralized admin panel for all DevBrothers plugins.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Site Settings
Down in the last 7 days:37#18,202by Ben Huson10 years ago
Manage custom site settings and global content fields (extendable by plugins/themes).
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Page Framework
Down in the last 7 days:5#18,519by miunosoft4 years ago
Facilitates WordPress plugin and theme development.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(23)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Extra Settings for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:164#18,850by taisho7 years ago
Easily customize and enhance WooCommerce store with highly demanded settings and additional features. Includes settings for Storefront theme.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 0/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
SacksonWeb Data
#21,089by ehops329 months ago
A comprehensive WordPress plugin that monitors security issues, performance issues, and WordPress settings that should be reviewed for potential impro …
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Header Banner
Up in the last 7 days:45#21,828by Ernest Behinov2 years ago
The "Header Banner" plugin provides a user-friendly interface for setting up and displaying a banner in your website's header
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Twitter API Master
Up in the last 7 days:16#22,879by Theme Egg8 years ago
Post to twitter, twitter feeds, twitter trends shortcode and widget wordpres plugin.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Posts Page
#23,008by ballyhoos13 years ago
When setting the 'Posts Page:' to a custom page within the 'Reading' settings of Wordpress, it will by default, ignore that page&# …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Xolo Addon
Down in the last 7 days:171#23,731by Xolo Software2 years ago
Xolo Addon gives you attractive Elementor widget to your websites. Its perfect test for Xolo Theme, But You can use for another theme also Astra, Sina …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyExtender
Up in the last 7 days:78#24,291by Michael Beckwith3 years ago
Configure internal BuddyPress settings from the WordPress dashboard
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sort Settings Menu
#24,886by Plugin Pizza5 months ago
Arrange the items in the "Settings" menu of the WordPress admin in alphabetical order.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Webzone Config Notes
Up in the last 7 days:41#25,747by webzoneit3 months ago
Document the "why" behind your WordPress configuration choices, right inside the dashboard.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Site Options
Down in the last 7 days:283#25,799by iTRON2 months ago
Add theme-defined custom options to the WordPress Settings -> Reading page with the plugin's established field and filter API.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Quick Configuration Links
#25,820by Janis Elsts1 year ago
Automagically adds a "Settings" link to every active plugin on the "Plugins" page.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Simple Settings
Down in the last 7 days:31#25,825by Jimmy K.13 years ago
A WordPress plugin to create, modify, and retrieve basic settings for use in templates, posts, and pages.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CT Optimization
Up in the last 7 days:151#26,594by Code Tốt4 months ago
Provides settings for enable/disable WordPress core features and some tweaks for ACF, Gravity Forms, such like Enable CDN, Lazyload assets.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Quick Provision
Up in the last 7 days:1,277#27,739by HasinHayder5 years ago
This is a powerful provisioning plugin to install multiple themes and plugins automatically by providing them as a list from https://gist.github.com.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(19)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Meta Controls
Down in the last 7 days:102#28,186by Alvaro5 years ago
Utilities to register, save and modify post meta data in the Gutenberg editor.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
i-Divi Advanced Audio
Down in the last 7 days:330#29,104by dangub868 years ago
This simple plugin is based on Divi Theme and/or on Divi Builder plugin. It just adds some design options to the default Divi Audio module.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
WP-Options
Up in the last 7 days:265#29,260by NoSta16 years ago
WP-Options:
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sitemap UI
Down in the last 7 days:285#30,571by Matt Gibbs4 years ago
Sitemap UI for WordPress 5.5+
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Settings Manager for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:270#31,060by Coddium8 months ago
Granular export and import for Elementor settings. Select exactly which settings categories to export and import.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Caregiver
#31,503by Blintux13 years ago
Adds many options for tweaking frontend and backend of your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
YM Fast Options
#31,805by Yan Metelitsa1 month ago
Create custom options, settings, global data fields, and more for your WordPress site with just a few lines of code.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Config Constants
#33,069by Chris Taylor11 years ago
Shows you the values of constants defined in your wp-config.php file
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day