Best wp-admin plugins for WordPress
The most popular wp-admin plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Reveal IDs leads with 40K+ active installs, ahead of Catch IDs (20K+) and Rename wp-admin login (9K+). All 84 plugins tagged “wp-admin” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 wp-admin plugins
- 1.
Reveal IDsThe most installed wp-admin plugin, with 40K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 61 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Catch IDs20K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 20 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 3.
Rename wp-admin login9K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 7 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 4.Add Logo to Admin
6K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 12 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 5.Toolbar Publish Button
5K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 46 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 6.
Advanced Post Manager4K+ active installs. Rated 3.5 from 11 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 7.
ShayanWeb Admin FontChanger1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 11 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 8.
Advanced All in One Admin Search by WP Spotlight900+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 8 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 9.Edit Lock
500+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 10.Disable File Editor
400+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
All 84 plugins tagged “wp-admin”

Reveal IDs
#849by wpseek2 months ago
What this plugin does is to reveal most removed IDs on admin pages, as it was in versions prior to 2.5.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 5.0(61)
- Downloads
- 188/day

Catch IDs
#1,283by Catch Themes5 months ago
What this plugin does is to shows the IDs on admin section.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.8(20)
- Downloads
- 85/day

Rename wp-admin login
Up in the last 7 days:6#2,240by Nuno Sarmento19 days ago
Rename wp-admin login* is a plugin that allows us to rename wp-admin login URL to anything you want
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 3.9(7)
- Downloads
- 34/day
Add Logo to Admin
Up in the last 7 days:2#2,760by bandicootmarketing9 years ago
Add a custom logo to your wp-admin and login page.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.6(12)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Toolbar Publish Button
Up in the last 7 days:1#3,039by webbistro5 years ago
Scroll less in WordPress admin area! A small UX improvement will keep Publish button within reach and retain the scrollbar position after saving.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.8(46)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Advanced Post Manager
Down in the last 7 days:11#3,438by Nexcess4 days ago
Turbo charge your posts admin for any custom post type with sortable filters and columns, and auto-registration of metaboxes.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 3.5(11)
- Downloads
- 103/day

ShayanWeb Admin FontChanger
Up in the last 7 days:12#5,468by Shayan Farhang Pazhooh5 months ago
The easiest way to change the WordPress admin font for Farsi websites is by using this lightweight plugin!
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Advanced All in One Admin Search by WP Spotlight
Up in the last 7 days:16#7,039by Kuppuraj1 year ago
Advanced All in One Admin Search by WP Spotlight Global Search is a powerful quick navigation plugin for WordPress Dashboard - it is an advancement of …
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.3(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Edit Lock
Down in the last 7 days:14#8,709by doublejar4 years ago
Disable page editing on selected pages, to protect the pages from accidental or unwanted changes that might break your site.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Disable File Editor
Down in the last 7 days:290#9,383by Nikunj Soni1 year ago
This plugin will disable file editing tool in your WordPress admin panel.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP-Admin Search Post Meta
Down in the last 7 days:111#10,791by meloniq (Andrzej Piotrowski)7 months ago
Search WordPress admin posts by custom fields (post meta) directly from the default search.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.3(10)
- 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

reCaptcha by WebDesignBy
Up in the last 7 days:7#11,538by webdesignby4 months ago
Add Google’s simple checkbox reCAPTCHA to WordPress wp-admin login page.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP Custom Login Branding
Down in the last 7 days:18#11,613by Webtronic6 years ago
A simple plugin that allows web developers and designers to brand the login page of WordPress for their customers.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Filter Pages by parent in admin
Down in the last 7 days:39#13,236by James Irving-Swift14 years ago
Filter pages in the wp-admin by their parent pages
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Status Menu Items
Down in the last 7 days:10#13,310by mrwweb8 years ago
Adds post status links–e.g. "Draft" (7)–to post type admin menus and a few other nice goodies.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 4/day

Unauthorised Login Redirect
Down in the last 7 days:112#13,721by RS2 years ago
This plugin allows you to effectively hide your wp-login.php and wp-admin by requiring that you access it via a custom URL.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hostvn Admin Optimize
Down in the last 7 days:83#14,044by Duong Thanh Binh5 years ago
Hostvn Admin Optimize
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Editarea
Up in the last 7 days:72#16,358by takien13 years ago
WP Editarea turns your Oldschool textarea code editor in Wordpress Dashboard (plugin/theme editor) into a fancy realtime highlighted code editor using …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

VA Simple Basic Auth
Down in the last 7 days:35#19,309by kuck1u10 years ago
Simply by enabling the plugin can set up a basic auth to dashboard and login page.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Treedbox Admin Menu
Up in the last 7 days:49#20,095by treedbox7 years ago
Repositioning your Admin Menu on top
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Quick Navigation Interface
Down in the last 7 days:398#21,872by Ian Dunn6 years ago
Quickly access screens and content within wp-admin just by typing the first few letters of the name.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

LH Favicon
Up in the last 7 days:116#24,021by shawfactor4 years ago
Overide your site icon favicon on the front end of your site
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Better WP-Admin Search
#24,030by Productive1 year ago
Add essential search functionality to your WP Admin.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Secure WordPress Admin
Up in the last 7 days:172#24,383by Yasar Khalifa11 months ago
Secure and customize your WordPress admin login by changing the default wp-login.php URL to a custom slug and blocking unauthorized access to wp-admin …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP-Login and WP-Admin Whitelist
#29,043by SwiftNinjaPro6 years ago
A Plugin That only allows whitelisted IP's, or optionally whitelisted browsers, to access wp-login, or optionally wp-admin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Folded Pages
Up in the last 7 days:215#30,331by Earthman Media4 years ago
A lightweight WordPress plugin to filter and view hierarchical child pages more efficiently in the WP-Admin page listing.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Admin White Label WordPress Login Page
#30,617by Ozan Canakli7 years ago
Change the default style of WordPress WP Admin login with a unique, beautiful, white-label style.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Better Code Editor
Down in the last 7 days:580#32,376by Nazmul Hossain Nihal11 years ago
Make your editor better!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 1/day

Logout to Homepage
Up in the last 7 days:1,255#33,148by Jay Holtslander7 years ago
Directs user to the homepage after succesfully logging out of Wordpress rather than to the login screen.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Disable Add New Plugins
#33,336by Nikunj Soni1 year ago
This plugin will disable the functionalities of add new plugins and file editing in your WordPress admin panel. It will also give security to file bei …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ThreatPoint IP Reputation
Down in the last 7 days:1,156#34,689by ThreatPoint UK1 month ago
This plugin protects WordPress Sites from unwanted malicious access attempts by leveraging IP reputation data provided by the ThreatPoint IP reputatio …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dashboard & Menu Cleaner (Quick Menu Finder)
Up in the last 7 days:5,595#36,111by fedmich15 years ago
This plugin will help you hide the default WordPress dashboard widgets like Incoming Links, etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day

Simple Login Screen for WordPress
Up in the last 7 days:6,994#36,280by N-Media2 years ago
A lightweight plugin to easily transform and brand your WordPress login screen with just one click, fully compatible with all themes and plugins.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pop Menus for WP-Admin
Up in the last 7 days:5,939#37,195by foxinni17 years ago
Menus for your WP-Admin sidebar that will save you time. Powered by jQuery and CSS.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day

AE Admin Customizer
Up in the last 7 days:8,017#39,556by allan.empalmado9 years ago
Now you can customize the Login/Registration Page with Live Preview using wordpress Customizer feature.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Favorite Links
Up in the last 7 days:450#39,648by Ahmad Karim10 years ago
Increase your productivity by adding favorite links to the wp-admin bar. Customize favorite links per user.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Block Admin
#40,738by Pankaj Anupam10 years ago
Block Admin allows you to restrict access to the defualt WordPress admin panel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Font-Zoom
Up in the last 7 days:4,372#41,078by _bengineer_11 years ago
A Wordpress plugin which gives the ability to zoom in/out on various text elements (think user readability enhancement). After a user edits their zoom …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Warn Other Admins
Up in the last 7 days:3,185#41,513by erayalakese14 years ago
With this plugin you can warn other wp-admin users. For example, you can type “Don’t touch widgets! I’ll fix it tomorrow !”
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin Login Hide
Down in the last 7 days:5,113#41,863by PTI WebTech21 days ago
Easily hide or customize your WordPress login URL to enhance security and prevent unauthorized access.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Register Settings API
Down in the last 7 days:1,195#42,806by Jenst12 years ago
Add settings to your own theme or plugin. As simple as writing an array.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Last Active Users (wp-admin)
Up in the last 7 days:1,780#42,834by Slava Abakumov12 years ago
Display BuddyPress last active date for a user on wp-admin/users.php page
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
EP Admin Messages
#44,271by Pär Thernström13 years ago
Show messages in WP Admin. Different messages can be shown at different places, for different people.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fortress Login Pro
Down in the last 7 days:9,585#44,837by Hamdi Saidani1 year ago
Hide and rotate your WordPress login URL. Track access, export logs, and prevent brute-force attacks with real-time visibility.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LH Custom Dashboard
#44,944by shawfactor6 years ago
Customise your Wordpress dashboard backend
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Many Posts
Down in the last 7 days:2,238#45,979by andrew_fisher10 years ago
WP Many Posts helps admin to manage blogs with thousands of posts in seconds and save hours of work in bulk actions.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Gmail Login
#46,526by victor_jonsson14 years ago
With this plugin you can login to wp-admin using your GMail credentials
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(4)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Custom Login and Admin URLs (CLAU)
#46,717by Vitor Carvalho14 years ago
AVOID TO USE THIS PLUGIN! Change wp-admin and wp-login URL to any of your choice. Security by obscurity!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Growl
#46,895by DannyvanHolten9 years ago
Show your WordPress admin notices in a growlike / better way, and snooze them whenever you see fit.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 1/day