Best tool plugins for WordPress
The most popular tool plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Transients Manager leads with 20K+ active installs, ahead of Foxtool All-in-One (6K+) and Cron Logger (1K+). All 63 plugins tagged “tool” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
Installs aren’t everything: a recent release, a “Tested up to” that matches the current WordPress, and support threads that get resolved show a plugin is looked after. Open any plugin for its downloads, rank history and alternatives.
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Top 10 tool plugins
- 1.Transients Manager
The most installed tool plugin, with 20K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 38 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 2.
Foxtool All-in-One6K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 20 reviews, updated 2 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Cron Logger1K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 8 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 4.
Remove Admin Bar logo1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.WP Site Verification tool
1K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 6 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 6.Asset Queue Manager
200+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 14 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 7.
Old Core Files200+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 8.Prune WooCommerce Orders
200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 9.SiteCare
100+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 4 days ago.
- 10.Lorem Ipsum for WP Editor
100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
All 63 plugins tagged “tool”
Transients Manager
Down in the last 7 days:3#1,216by Syed Balkhi2 years ago
Provides a familiar interface to view, search, edit, and delete Transients.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 5.0(38)
- Downloads
- 357/day

Foxtool All-in-One
Down in the last 7 days:20#2,684by Fox Theme2 months ago
Summarize the essential functions for managing a WordPress website
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 48/day

Cron Logger
Down in the last 7 days:66#5,537by Palasthotel GmbH1 month ago
Logs wp-cron.php runs.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(8)
- Downloads
- 131/day

Remove Admin Bar logo
Down in the last 7 days:15#6,420by mdbrx2 months ago
Remove admin bar logo wp from the admin-bar.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Site Verification tool
Down in the last 7 days:15#6,719by Paul Bearne5 months ago
A tool to enable verification of site ownership via file or meta tag.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Asset Queue Manager
Down in the last 7 days:61#12,472by NateWr10 years ago
A tool for experienced frontend performance engineers to take control over the scripts and styles enqueued on their site.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.7(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Old Core Files
Down in the last 7 days:14#12,611by Maor Chasen7 years ago
Increase your WordPress security by deleting old core files that exist in the filesystem before hackers exploit them for attacks.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Prune WooCommerce Orders
Up in the last 7 days:121#12,864by Sean Conklin1 year ago
Adds tools to the WP Admin > WooCommerce > Status > Tools page to move all orders of the selected status and cutoff date into the trash, wher …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
SiteCare
Down in the last 7 days:224#13,496by SiteCare4 days ago
One forgotten setting can hide your site from Google. A red/green eye shows visibility at a glance, plus a one-click fix and instant email alerts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Lorem Ipsum for WP Editor
Down in the last 7 days:102#15,063by Janynne Gomes12 years ago
Now you can easily test your website adding Lorem Ipsum text to your posts by one click.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Accessibility Widget by Adally
Up in the last 7 days:185#16,099by adallyada6 years ago
A simple plugin to append Adally's Accessibility Widget script on your website without having you to modify your frontend code.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Shortcodes In Use
Down in the last 7 days:28#18,194by wizzud10 years ago
List all the shortcodes that you have used within your content or custom fields, and find out exactly where they have been used.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day

CodeArt Units Converter
Up in the last 7 days:63#18,843by CodeIsArt.NET7 months ago
Easily add unit converters and calculators (basic & scientific) to your WordPress site using shortcodes.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Super Link Preview
Down in the last 7 days:130#19,389by Daniele Perilli12 years ago
Get the most relevant image, or the appropriate embedded media player, or the page screenshot of any external link in your post (similar to what you g …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

LTI Tool
Down in the last 7 days:116#21,045by Stephen P Vickers2 months ago
This plugin allows WordPress to be integrated as a tool with on-line courses using the 1EdTech (formerly IMS) Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) sp …
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Get Options
Down in the last 7 days:26#23,061by gilles661 year ago
View all the WordPress Options
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Quick Translate POT/PO/MO
Up in the last 7 days:2,691#23,345by Kasuga2 months ago
"Quick Translate POT/PO/MO" is a tool for generating and modifying WordPress plugin translation files.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Autolinker SEO Tool
Up in the last 7 days:244#23,797by dustinstaples11 years ago
Automatically apply links, targets, and no follows to keywords you specify.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Taxonomy WYSIWYG
Up in the last 7 days:317#24,096by Earl Evan Amante11 years ago
A very simple plugin that will convert the taxonomy/category description textarea to a WYSIWYG (TinyMCE) form.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Walmart Affiliate Link
Up in the last 7 days:166#24,413by Walmart Affiliates10 years ago
Walmart Affiliate Link lets you easily create paid links to Walmart.com.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.0(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Quick Create Pages
Down in the last 7 days:30#25,626by Tom Slominski5 years ago
WordPress plugin for quickly adding a hierarchy of posts or pages when creating a new site.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MU Plugins Tool
Down in the last 7 days:111#25,881by AK Ted13 years ago
MU Plugins Tool allows you to activate or deactivate any MU (must-use) plugins that are installed - on an individual basis or all at once.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

RY Toolkit
Down in the last 7 days:209#26,758by Richer Yang2 months ago
Useful tools for more control over you website. Include cron, media, sitemap, OPcache.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Theme Grep by BoldGrid
Down in the last 7 days:772#27,294by BoldGrid2 months ago
Theme Grep helps to review WordPress themes by automating many searches (greps) used to "snoop around" the theme's code.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Contacts Manager
#31,424by Earl Evan Amante11 years ago
A simple contact manager for your personal and business use.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
A Shortcode Tester
#32,083by Magenta Cuda6 years ago
The Shortcode Tester is a post editor tool for WordPress developers that displays in a popup window the HTML generated by WordPress shortcodes, i.e.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Fields Spreadsheet
Up in the last 7 days:11,591#35,419by William Bixler11 years ago
A WordPress plugin which gives you all of your custom fields in a single, customizable spreadsheet view.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Logo Branding Tool
#37,340by Martin G16 years ago
The logo branding tool allows you to add your custom company logo to the wordpress login screen page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP GitHub Tools
#38,423by vilmosioo10 years ago
A plugin that inserts dynamic updates for any GitHub repository.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Clothing size Calculator by isosize
Down in the last 7 days:3,561#40,597by isosize10 years ago
Isosize clothing size plugin for wordpress retailers. Decrease your costs of returns by providing the perfect clothing size for your customers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Copito Comments
Up in the last 7 days:299#40,683by cosme128 years ago
Allows you to add comments manually. Useful to migrate comments from a Facebook Fan Page to your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Victorious Toolkit
Down in the last 7 days:2,340#40,743by kopatheme11 years ago
The Victorious Toolkit is an easy way to get widgets, short code, languages and custom post types to your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Server Information
Down in the last 7 days:5,082#41,514by miunosoft11 years ago
Allows you to send server information via email.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Move Comments
Down in the last 7 days:944#41,536by Peter Hilbring17 years ago
Simple Move Comments moves all comments from one page/post to another.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Website Screenshots
Down in the last 7 days:4,245#41,863by dirk946 years ago
Automatically create website screenshots
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Gallery Made Easy
#43,343by Earl Evan Amante10 years ago
Instantly create responsive image galleries within a simple and customizable interface. Just upload, add, organise and publish.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hikari Tools Framework
Down in the last 7 days:849#45,583hikari-tools16 years ago
A plugin development framework with a lot of reusable code and a nice settings page builder.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
iThoughts HTML Snippets
Down in the last 7 days:1,388#45,982by Gerkin10 years ago
Embed custom HTML snippets with raw content and variables
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Plugin All Info
Down in the last 7 days:5,039#46,287by wpshopee8 years ago
Plugin all info provides a simple way of displaying up-to-date information about specific WordPress Plugin hosted on WP plugin repository.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CampusPress Code Check
#46,505by Ignacio Cruz Moreno9 years ago
A simple and easy way to test your theme or plugin for all the latest WordPress standards and practices. A great theme development tool!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fix Content Links
#46,630by Fleuv7 years ago
Replaces incorrect links to sources located in the uploads, plugins, themes or wp-content folder.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Ozh & COLOURlovers' Admin CSS Designer
#46,716by Ozh16 years ago
Make your own Admin CSS with a little help from COLOURlovers. Edit, tweak and save CSS real time!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

DBtools
Up in the last 7 days:901#46,828by MD Geus10 years ago
Wordpress plugin for DB maintenance and backup
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Posts Generator
#46,864by Earl Evan Amante11 years ago
A straight forward Posts Generator for Developers and Testers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ConsentForAds
Down in the last 7 days:2,982#46,957by Dan Martuszewski8 years ago
ConsentForAds (by UnveilMedia) is GDPR-compliant tool for WordPress publishers to opt-in/opt-out users for digital advertising in the EU.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 2/day

Hook Flowchart
#47,668by Daniele Scasciafratte7 years ago
In every WordPress page there are many different hooks, but what is the direct relationship among them?
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Color Changer
Down in the last 7 days:5,374#48,215by rahulraykor8 years ago
Color Changer is there to help you out when you get bored of seeing the black & white colors of the editor. Click in the Color Changer Button and …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Local Prospecting Tool
Up in the last 7 days:20,009#50,177by Codesert Technolab1 year ago
Discover local businesses effortlessly with the 'Local Prospecting Tool' plugin. Powered by Google Maps API for seamless search and export.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

DOMS Search
#50,201by Darwin Mateos7 years ago
Plugin to enable filter search by PDF's, Doc's, Images and/or Videos
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Options Management
Up in the last 7 days:8,847#51,196by Hive 4 Apps8 years ago
A small plugin for developers to manage manually wordpress options.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day