Best sitewide plugins for WordPress
The most popular sitewide plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. PPWP leads with 30K+ active installs, ahead of Passster (10K+) and Sitewide (Admin) Header/Footer (30+). All 11 plugins tagged “sitewide” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 sitewide plugins
- 1.
PPWPThe most installed sitewide plugin, with 30K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 272 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 2.
Passster10K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 60 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 3.
Sitewide (Admin) Header/Footer30+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1.
- 4.
Ada WPMS Sitewide Feed10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 5.
Smart Protect10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 6.
Sitewide Coloring10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 7.
BuddyPress Sitewide Featured Posts10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.1.1.
- 8.
BuddyPress Sitewide Notice Widget10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 9.
Featured Posts10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 10.
Multisite Latest Posts Widget10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1.
All 11 plugins tagged “sitewide”
PPWP
#979by WP Folio Team4 days ago
Password protect WordPress pages and posts by user roles or with multiple passwords; protect your entire website with a single password.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(272)
- Downloads
- 735/day
Passster
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,961by WP Chill16 days ago
Password Protect Pages, Posts & Content in WordPress
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.2(60)
- Downloads
- 208/day
Sitewide (Admin) Header/Footer
Down in the last 7 days:506#23,709by Philipp15b15 years ago
Change the header/footer of the front- and backend of WordPress Multisite
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ada WPMS Sitewide Feed
Down in the last 7 days:94#29,145by Adadaa1 year ago
Creates four rss 2.0 feeds showing recent posts, comments, pages, and one combined [posts and pages] from all blogs. Works both on WPMS, and WPMU
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Smart Protect
Down in the last 7 days:318#32,096by Marcos Robles4 years ago
Smart Protect offers a solution to protect your entire site and choose which pages within your site will not be protected, all in a simple and easy wa …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sitewide Coloring
Up in the last 7 days:11,577#36,118by Mobilunity10 years ago
Plugin that allows show banners on all pages or posts just in few clicks without coding and changing post.php or page.php.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Sitewide Featured Posts
Up in the last 7 days:1,270#38,746by grosbouff16 years ago
This is a BuddyPress plugin that allows you to select and display featured posts sitewide.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Sitewide Notice Widget
#44,700by Jennifer M. Dodd14 years ago
Wrap the BuddyPress sitewide notice in a widget.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Posts
Down in the last 7 days:7,792#45,862by Ron Rennick9 years ago
Featured posts plugin & widget for WordPress or WordPress MU.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multisite Latest Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:4,446#47,528by Ko Min15 years ago
Show the latest posts from all blogs in multisite Wordpress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multisite Global Terms
Down in the last 7 days:1,495#48,288by Brajesh Singh8 years ago
Allow global terms across all blogs on a multisite installation.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day