Best utility plugins for WordPress
The most popular utility plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. CiviCRM Admin Utilities leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Remove/Hide Admin Toolbar (500+) and Editor Enhancer for Oxygen (500+). All 49 plugins tagged “utility” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 utility plugins
- 1.
CiviCRM Admin UtilitiesThe most installed utility plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Remove/Hide Admin Toolbar500+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 10 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 3.Editor Enhancer for Oxygen
500+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 25 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 4.
Theme Inspector400+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 11 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 5.i-Divi Post Settings
200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
- 6.
Simple Dashboard Todo100+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.CSS Margin & Padding Utility
60+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 8.
Wowholic CORE60+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 9.DNS Manager for Cloudflare
50+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 10.TK Shortcode Link
40+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
All 49 plugins tagged “utility”

CiviCRM Admin Utilities
Up in the last 7 days:9#5,351by Christian Wach1 month ago
Utilities for customising CiviCRM's behaviour and appearance in single site and multisite installs.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 60/day

Remove/Hide Admin Toolbar
Up in the last 7 days:21#8,609by Purrly Digital4 years ago
Removes/hides the admin toolbar from the front end of the site when activated
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.9(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Editor Enhancer for Oxygen
Up in the last 7 days:1#9,048by ukuwi7 years ago
Editor Enhancer for Oxygen does exactly what you think: it enhances the UI/UX of the Oxygen Builder editor!
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(25)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Theme Inspector
Down in the last 7 days:4#9,516by Melissa Cabral3 years ago
A developer's inspector to illuminate the WordPress Template Hierarchy and help with building WordPress Classic themes.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.7(11)
- Downloads
- 0/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

Simple Dashboard Todo
Down in the last 7 days:105#16,225by Sharif ME1 month ago
A simple todo management plugin for WordPress site admins. Stay consistent and never forget anything.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CSS Margin & Padding Utility
Up in the last 7 days:114#19,164by Jakobodb9 years ago
Utility for adding css classes for Margin and Padding e.g. .man for 0 margin on all sides, .ptm for 1em padding-top.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Wowholic CORE
Down in the last 7 days:153#19,408by Wowholic11 months ago
CORE makes you faster and more efficient when developing custom WordPress sites.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DNS Manager for Cloudflare
Up in the last 7 days:12#20,223by sflwa1 year ago
Manage your Cloudflare DNS records directly from the WordPress admin panel.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
TK Shortcode Link
Down in the last 7 days:129#22,642by Clifford Paulick7 years ago
Create links with a shortcode. It's that simple.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Draft from Google Docs
Down in the last 7 days:563#27,887by davidfcarr2 years ago
Simplify the process of bringing Google Docs content into WordPress.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- 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
- 0/day
Days Until
Up in the last 7 days:520#29,528by Enuratique14 years ago
Outputs the number of days until a specified date from shortcode embedded in content.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Utility and Performance
#32,162by Mayank Majeji2 years ago
This plugin allows you to enable / disable the unused resources included by WordPress and third-party themes and plugins.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Just Disable It
#33,124by Zac Scott3 years ago
Disable WordPress features for a faster, cleaner, more secure experience.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Theme Bakery
Up in the last 7 days:7,862#36,267by shazdeh14 years ago
A simple tool that allows you to generate a new blank theme (uses _S theme).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
RP Recreate Slugs
#39,131by Alec15 years ago
Recreate articles and pages slugs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Print Array
Up in the last 7 days:5,426#40,969by justo848415 years ago
This plugin allows the use of the function echo_array to print out array data within a custom template, most often used for debugging complex code.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

QuickStart
Down in the last 7 days:1,744#41,572by Doug Wollison2 years ago
This plugin is no longer being developed.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Hook Finder
Up in the last 7 days:2,975#43,708by Matt Cohen16 years ago
Scan a WordPress theme or plugin for functions that are attached to hooks and filters and for any custom actions or filters that are added by the code …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fixed Footer
Down in the last 7 days:2,295#44,123by SamTyurenkov6 years ago
Setup a sitewide fixed footer block with content from any page,post or custom post type.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post In Post
Down in the last 7 days:1,565#45,385by doginthehat14 years ago
Post In Post
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Chunks
Down in the last 7 days:15,552#45,715by Konstantin Kovshenin15 years ago
Chunks is about managing tiny bits of content on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Active Plugins
#46,775by Kailey (trepmal)10 years ago
Generates a list of plugins that are currently in use
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Page Modified
Down in the last 7 days:8,561#47,288by Chris Klosowski9 years ago
Display the results of your Page Modified crawls right within your WordPress Admin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Post Lock
Down in the last 7 days:8,295#48,312by ggwicz10 years ago
Post Lock prevents accidental updating or publishing of content by requiring a password to do either.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

"Safe WP Updates" by WP Boom
Up in the last 7 days:3,591#52,860by wpboom1 year ago
A site cloning and visual testing tool that allows creation of development sites for WordPress update testing.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

JokeShogun
Up in the last 7 days:17,330#53,381by Sankalp Bhagat (WP Shogun)20 days ago
Displays a random joke on selected WordPress admin pages on every refresh to brighten your day.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

K2 Essentials
Up in the last 7 days:16,956#54,759by pookidevs6 years ago
K2 Essentials makes all the essential administrative functionalities only a check box away. It eliminates the need of writing any code snippets to car …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Arya Switch Theme
#56,615by Arya Themes7 years ago
Allows users to choose and preview all WordPress themes installed without
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Error Pages
#57,316by Sharif ME2 years ago
Personalize PHP, Database, and Maintenance error pages using the Editor. This plugin leverages WordPress Dropins php-error.php maintenance.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Quick ID Viewer
#58,819by Huzaifa Al Mesbah1 year ago
Quickly view and copy post, page, custom post type, and taxonomy term IDs directly from the WordPress admin list view with a single click.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Dapre Custom Fields Tools
#60,317by Giulio Daprela5 years ago
This plugin is the 'swiss army knife' of custom fields. It allows you to manipulate them from the dashboard to make it easy testing and debu …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Anchor
#61,859by Darren Cooney1 year ago
A small microplugin for generating anchor links from block content.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
UD Connector for Oxygen
Down in the last 7 days:10,819#62,503by luciandinu6 years ago
Enable copy/paste functionality between UD and Oxygen Builder
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Development Mode
Down in the last 7 days:8,059#63,705by Jakobodb9 years ago
Uses Sunrise theme on Dashboard and Frontend to visually represent development mode
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bloat-off
Down in the last 7 days:6,850#66,042by Nikodemsky5 months ago
Remove bloat and redundant functions, and further optimize your WordPress with just a few clicks.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PostTally
#66,599by CodeRevolution1 year ago
A plugin that adds a [post_count] shortcode to display the total number of published posts.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
OptiKit
Down in the last 7 days:17,891#67,582by DediData6 months ago
Simple utilities to boost WordPress performance, disable unused features, and optimize frontend assets.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PostAge Tracker
Down in the last 7 days:11,945#67,800by CodeRevolution1 year ago
A lightweight plugin that adds a [post_age] shortcode to display how old a post is (e.g., "3 days ago").
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
AutoMod
#69,576by Marcel1 year ago
Manage members with warnings and bans, SMTP settings, customizable email templates, AI moderation, and registration controls for enhanced security.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easystylesuite
Down in the last 7 days:9,155#71,188by Javier A. D. Castillo2 months ago
Ready-to-use CSS styles with a visual panel to copy class names and enhance your site design easily.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day