Best wpmu plugins for WordPress
The most popular wpmu plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Admin Menu Editor leads with 300K+ active installs, ahead of Disable User Gravatar (2K+) and BP Disable Activation Reloaded (700+). All 93 plugins tagged “wpmu” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 wpmu plugins
- 1.
Admin Menu EditorThe most installed wpmu plugin, with 300K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 312 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Disable User Gravatar2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 3.
BP Disable Activation Reloaded700+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 19 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 4.
Advanced Export for WP & WPMU700+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 5.
Multisite Plugin Manager200+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 23 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 6.
Activate Update Services200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 7.
Improved Simpler CSS100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.
- 8.
BuddyPress Russian Months100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago.
- 9.
Gravatar Favicon100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 10.
Multisite Cloner100+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 29 reviews, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
All 93 plugins tagged “wpmu”
Admin Menu Editor
#157by Janis Elsts2 months ago
Lets you edit the WordPress admin menu. You can re-order, hide or rename menus, add custom menus and more.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 4.6(312)
- Downloads
- 2K/day
Disable User Gravatar
Down in the last 7 days:10#4,271by Marcus (aka @msykes)4 years ago
Stops WordPress from grabbing a user avatar using their registrated email from gravatar.com.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 12/day
BP Disable Activation Reloaded
Down in the last 7 days:37#7,622by Damian12 years ago
Based on crashutah, apeatling plugin Disables the activation email and automatically activates new users in BuddyPress under a standard WP install and …
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(19)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Advanced Export for WP & WPMU
Down in the last 7 days:13#7,885by Ron Rennick11 years ago
Adds an Advanced Export to the Tools menu which allows selective exporting of pages, posts, specific categories and/or post statuses by date.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Multisite Plugin Manager
#12,251by Aaron Edwards6 years ago
The essential plugin for every multisite install! Manage plugin access permissions across your entire multisite network.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.2(23)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Activate Update Services
Up in the last 7 days:17#12,669by feedmeastraycat10 years ago
WordPress removes the Update Services ability when you create a network. Activate this plugin to get it back.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Improved Simpler CSS
Up in the last 7 days:120#13,315by ctltwp13 years ago
Add the ability to add css to your existing style sheet.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Russian Months
Down in the last 7 days:7#14,476by Slava Abakumov15 years ago
Plugin will transform wrong months' cases (in date) to proper ones (according Russian grammar rules).
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Gravatar Favicon
Up in the last 7 days:13#14,955by Patrick Chia14 years ago
This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar favicon for your blog and admin logo included Apple touch icon.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multisite Cloner
Down in the last 7 days:213#15,101by Manuel Razzari10 years ago
When creating a new blog on WordPress Multisite, copies all the posts, settings and files, from a selected blog into the new one.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(29)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove WPMU Dashboard Install Nag
Down in the last 7 days:144#15,299by 3dperuna11 years ago
This plugin removes the nag notice at the top of WPMU plugins and themes.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.9(33)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Sort My Sites
Up in the last 7 days:124#17,003by Tryon Eggleston2 years ago
Sort My Sites lets you change the ordering of the My Sites menu on the dashboard and in the admin bar.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Network Username Restrictions Override
Down in the last 7 days:83#17,474by Daniel Westermann-Clark2 years ago
Override restrictions on WordPress network usernames.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multisite User Role Manager
Up in the last 7 days:58#18,270by OzTheGreat9 years ago
Manage user roles for each blog from a single screen on multisite (WPMU) setups
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Demo Data Creator
Down in the last 7 days:226#18,650by Chris Taylor9 years ago
Demo Data Creator is a Wordpress and BuddyPress plugin that allows a Wordpress developer to create demo users, blogs, posts, comments and more.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 3.5(22)
- Downloads
- 12/day
WPMS Sidebar Login Widget
Down in the last 7 days:172#21,668by Joshua Parker14 years ago
Adds a sidebar widget to the main site of a WPMU/WPMS install.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
YD Network-wide Options
#23,368by Yann at WP&Co14 years ago
This plugin has been thoroughly tested and is fully compatible with WordPress 3.0x multisite or with WPMU 2.9.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 4.4(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Reorder My Sites
Up in the last 7 days:150#23,628by ericjuden8 years ago
For WordPress Multisite. Reorders the My Sites dropdown menu in the Admin Bar alphabetically. It keeps the main blog at the top.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BP Blog Author Link
Down in the last 7 days:201#24,275by Ron Rennick12 years ago
This plugin changes the blog author links on a buddypress site to link to the author's buddypress member profile.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Login Style
Down in the last 7 days:204#24,330by Jeff Waugh19 years ago
Restyle your login page with custom CSS.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Important Links Widget
#25,103by D'Arcy Norman7 years ago
Adds a simple widget that contains important links for use on a community blogging site - new post, new page, login, logout, etc...
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPArtisan Multisite Crossposter
Down in the last 7 days:5#25,364by OzTheGreat9 years ago
Sync or crosspost posts, pages or custom post types between blogs or sites in a WordPress Multisite environment
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
YD WPMU Bloglist Widget
Down in the last 7 days:596#26,436by Yann at WP&Co13 years ago
Sidebar widget and template function to display an ordered blog list of subsites (with post count) on a page of the WordPress MU main site.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Add Link
Up in the last 7 days:405#27,693by ctltwp16 years ago
Add Link enables your users to add links to your blog.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Quick Cache Clear for Publisher
Down in the last 7 days:698#27,796by ericjuden14 years ago
Allows anyone with publish permissions to clear the cache in Quick Cache
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPMS Site Maintenance Mode
#28,292by Joshua Parker14 years ago
Provides an interface to make a WPMS network unavailable to everyone during maintenance, except the admin.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Edit Category Slug (Multisite)
Down in the last 7 days:157#29,419by Sergey Biryukov15 years ago
Allows to specify or edit a category slug in WordPress Multisite.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BP Disable Activation
Up in the last 7 days:32#30,032by techguy16 years ago
Disables the activation email and automatically activates new users in BuddyPress under a standard WP install and WPMU (multisite).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Watu to MailChimp
Down in the last 7 days:180#30,193by Bob5 years ago
A bridge between the Watu Quiz plugin and MailChimp /*** This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
GP
Down in the last 7 days:159#30,627by Louy Alakkad13 years ago
All the tools you need to integrate your WordPress and Google+.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Blog Templates
Down in the last 7 days:327#31,150by gregsurname15 years ago
A WPMU plugin that sets up a template system that lets you have a template appied to new blogs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multiple Twitter Widgets
Down in the last 7 days:132#32,165by Patrick Chia17 years ago
Allows for multiple twitter widgets to be displayed.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
User Info Login Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:79#32,689by D'Arcy Norman7 years ago
This plugin provides a [user_info_login] shortcode to let you embed a User Info or Login section without farting around with page templates or widgets
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Akismet Credit Inserter
Down in the last 7 days:1,204#32,903by D'Arcy Norman7 years ago
Adds a small "Spam prevention powered by Akismet" to the footer of every blog to abide by Akismet licensing terms.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Auto Subscribe Users
Down in the last 7 days:532#33,314by Harshit10 years ago
Automatically subscribe your users, so that they can be notified of any new content on the site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Extended Super Admins
#33,760by Curtiss Grymala13 years ago
This plugin allows you to create multiple levels of Super Admins in a multi-site configuration.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Add Clone Sites for WPMU (batch)
Down in the last 7 days:1,219#34,770by fritsjan15 years ago
Batch add new sites on Wordpress MU / Wordpress Network while using a template site to clone, includes batch domainmapping of the new sites.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPMU Blog Name Restrictions Override
Down in the last 7 days:998#34,779by DeannaS16 years ago
This plugin provides a way for site admins to allow blog creators more options for blog name (less restrictive than built-in defaults).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Network Ping
#35,221by Sean Fisher16 years ago
Running a WordPress MU network can be annoying when sites can be submitting different pings lists. The site will allow for a standard ping list for al …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
@reply
#37,276by Jeff Waugh18 years ago
Automagically link Twitterish "@name:" replies in comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Featured Posts
#38,907by Ron Rennick9 years ago
Featured posts plugin & widget for WordPress or WordPress MU.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
AGB-Checkbox
Up in the last 7 days:6,710#39,040by Dennis17 years ago
This plugin adds to the signup page of WordPress MU a checkbox for TOS and/or a privacy policy.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ThemeBrowser
Up in the last 7 days:2,289#40,265by Chris Taylor11 years ago
Show off the themes available for blogs in your Wordpress MultiSite with a simple shortcode in any post or page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Update Time Zones Across Network
Up in the last 7 days:6,514#40,436by oiler15 years ago
Automatically change the time zone for all of the blogs on your multisite network. Not for single installations. WPMU / Multisite / Network only.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bulk Create Blogs
Up in the last 7 days:2,735#40,960by gregsurname16 years ago
A WPMU plugin for allowing the site admin to bulk create blogs using CSV data.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Blog ID in Site Admin Menu
#41,070by Kailey (trepmal)11 years ago
Adds the ID of the current blog/site to the Edit Site menu item.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPMU Simple Dashboard
#41,596by DeannaS15 years ago
This plugin lets site admins control which features are shown by default on all user's dashboards.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multisite Recent Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:862#41,864by copperblade14 years ago
Creates a widget to show a list of the most recent posts across a WordPress MU installation. It shows the most recent post from each blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post and Comment Growth
#42,297by ctltwp17 years ago
Generates a graph to display population growth for posts and comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Enable Theme and Plugin Editor (WPMU)
Down in the last 7 days:956#42,869by Sergey Biryukov16 years ago
Allows to enable theme and plugin editor for site administrator in WordPress MU.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day