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Best ui plugins for WordPress

The most popular ui plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Radio Buttons for Taxonomies leads with 20K+ active installs, ahead of Category Checklist Tree (5K+) and Fancy Admin UI (1K+). All 70 plugins tagged “ui” 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 ui plugins

  1. 1.
    Radio Buttons for Taxonomies

    The most installed ui plugin, with 20K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 50 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.0.

  2. 2.
    Category Checklist Tree

    5K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 23 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.

  3. 3.
    Fancy Admin UI

    1K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 14 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.

  4. 4.
    Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes

    700+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.

  5. 5.
    Collapsible Categories in the Dashboard

    600+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.

  6. 6.
    Admin Bar Toggle

    400+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 18 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.

  7. 7.
    Clean unused shortcodes

    300+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 7 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.

  8. 8.
    Dropdown Menus

    200+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 5 reviews, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.

  9. 9.
    Admin Bar Wrap Fix

    200+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.

  10. 10.
    Block Revealer

    200+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, updated 4 months ago.

All 70 plugins tagged “ui”