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admin plugins
1,788 plugins in the directory carry the admin tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
1,788
plugins
3,899,090+
combined reach
240
released in 90 days
72%
quiet 18 months+
13
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03 Sep 2026 | Login as User: See the Site as Any User | 30,000+ | changed hands |
| 03 Sep 2026 | Login Alert Notification | 20+ | released after a long silence |
| 01 Sep 2026 | WP Better Sub Menus | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 31 Aug 2026 | WP Cron Pixie | 10+ | changed hands |
| 28 Aug 2026 | IPGP Visitors Origin | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 22 Aug 2026 | Nested Pages | 90,000+ | changed hands |
| 22 Aug 2026 | Bulk Edit YOAST SEO fields in Spreadsheet | 1,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 22 Aug 2026 | Columns renaming for WP Sheet Editor | 90+ | released after a long silence |
| 20 Aug 2026 | Selfish Fresh Start | 30+ | released after a long silence |
| 13 Aug 2026 | Bulk Plugin Installation | 300+ | released after a long silence |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Reset Meta Box Positions | 300+ | released after a long silence |
| 11 Aug 2026 | To Do List | 20+ | released after a long silence |
| 09 Aug 2026 | Change Howdy | 50+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loginizer Loginizer is a WordPress security plugin which helps you fight against bruteforce attacks. | 1,000,000+ | 4.8★ | 19 days ago |
| Redux Framework Redux is a simple, truly extensible, and fully responsive options framework for WordPress themes and plugins. It ships with an integrated demo. | 900,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 months ago |
| Admin Menu Editor Lets you edit the WordPress admin menu. You can re-order, hide or rename menus, add custom menus and more. | 300,000+ | 4.6★ | 19 days ago |
| White Label CMS Customise dashboard panels and branding, hide menus plus lots more. | 200,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 months ago |
| Advanced Custom Fields: Extended All-in-one enhancement suite that improves WordPress & Advanced Custom Fields. | 100,000+ | 4.8★ | 11 days ago |
| Nested Pages Nested Pages provides a drag and drop interface for managing pages & posts in the WordPress admin, while maintaining quick edit functionality. | 90,000+ | 4.7★ | 6 days ago |
| Disable REST API Disable the use of the REST API on your website to site users. Now with User Role support! | 80,000+ | 4.8★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Add From Server Add From Server is designed to help ease the pain of bad web hosts, allowing you to upload files via FTP or SSH and later import them into WordPress. | 60,000+ | 4.6★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| All In One Favicon Easily add a Favicon to your site and the WordPress admin pages. Complete with upload functionality. Supports all three Favicon types (ico,png,gif). | 60,000+ | 4.5★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Conditional Menus This plugin enables you to set conditional menus per posts, pages, categories, archive pages, etc. | 60,000+ | 4.4★ | 26 days ago |
| Cryout Serious Theme Settings This plugin is designed to inter-operate with our Mantra, Parabola, Tempera, Nirvana themes to enable their settings pages. | 40,000+ | 4.3★ | 7 months ago |
| Revision Control Revision Control allows finer control over the Post Revision system included with WordPress | 40,000+ | 4.4★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| WP Revisions Control Control how many revisions are stored for each post type. | 40,000+ | 4.7★ | 14 months ago |
| Display PHP Version Displays the currently installed PHP/MySQL version in the "At a Glance" admin dashboard widget. | 30,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Login as User: See the Site as Any User Log in as any WordPress user with one click. Troubleshoot issues and support customers without asking for their password. | 30,000+ | 4.8★ | yesterday |
| Scripts n Styles This plugin allows Admin users to individually add HTML, custom CSS, Classes and JavaScript directly to Post, Pages or any other custom post types. | 30,000+ | 4.4★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| WP Admin UI Customize Customize the management screen UI. | 30,000+ | 4.6★ | 22 months ago · quiet |
| WP Custom Admin Interface With WP Custom Admin Interface you can easily customise the WordPress admin and login interfaces. | 30,000+ | 4.7★ | 7 months ago |
| WP Updates Notifier Sends email to notify you if there are any updates for your WordPress site. Can notify about core, plugin and theme updates. | 30,000+ | 4.2★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| Catch IDs What this plugin does is to shows the IDs on admin section. | 20,000+ | 4.8★ | 4 months ago |
| Error Log Monitor Adds a Dashboard widget that displays the latest messages from your PHP error log. It can also send logged errors to email. | 20,000+ | 4.3★ | 11 months ago |
| Hide Admin Bar Hide the Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1+. | 20,000+ | 4.5★ | 10 months ago |
| Radio Buttons for Taxonomies Replace the default taxonomy boxes with a custom metabox that uses radio buttons... effectively limiting each post to a single term in that taxonomy. | 20,000+ | 5.0★ | 19 months ago · quiet |
| Site Offline Or Coming Soon Or Maintenance Mode Site Offline plugin manage your WordPress website in under construction or maintenance mode or coming soon or landing page. | 20,000+ | 4.8★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| SpiceBox Enhance Spicethemes WordPress Themes functionality. | 20,000+ | 3.8★ | 2 months ago |
| Add Admin CSS Easily define additional CSS (inline and/or by URL) to be added to all administration pages. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 9 months ago |
| Adjust Admin Categories Installing this plugin allows you to adjust the behavior of the area below the posts screen category and custom taxonomy box. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Admin CSS MU Add custom CSS to style the WordPress Admin. Works with Multisites. | 10,000+ | 4.5★ | 21 months ago · quiet |
| Admin Menu Tree Page View Get a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Search, add, edit, view, re-order – all is just one click away! | 10,000+ | 4.6★ | 4 months ago |
| Arile Extra Arile Extra is a companion plugin for ArileWP WordPress theme by ThemeArile. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| Audit Trail Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog by monitoring administration functions. | 10,000+ | 2.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Automatic Domain Changer Automatically detects a domain name change, and updates all the WordPress tables in the database to reflect this change. | 10,000+ | 4.3★ | 4 months ago |
| Bogo A straight-forward multilingual plugin. No more double-digit custom DB tables or hidden HTML comments that could cause you headaches later on. | 10,000+ | 4.5★ | 20 days ago |
| Custom Login Custom Login allows you to easily customize your admin login page, works great for client sites! | 10,000+ | 3.6★ | 25 days ago |
| Desert Companion Desert Companion Enhances Desert Themes with additional functionality. | 10,000+ | 3.7★ | 20 days ago |
| LWS Tools Optimize and modify your website's parameters | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| SEO Friendly Images SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images improving traffic from search engines. | 10,000+ | 3.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Simple Taxonomy Ordering Quickly and easily reorder taxonomy terms with an easy to use and intuitive drag and drop interface. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Slim Maintenance Mode Simple and lightweight solution for scheduled maintenance. No settings page, just activate it and do your maintenance work stress-free. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| Term Management Tools Allows you to merge terms, move terms between taxonomies, and set term parents, individually or in bulk. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 9 months ago |
| Uber Login Logo A simple, lightweight WordPress plugin to change your login logo. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP Last Login Adds a sortable "Last Login" column to the Users screen — spot inactive accounts and see who's actually using your site. | 10,000+ | 3.7★ | 3 months ago |
| WP-Memory-Usage Monitor PHP memory usage, set alert thresholds, and diagnose your server configuration — directly inside WordPress admin. | 10,000+ | 4.5★ | 5 days ago |
| WPS Bidouille WPS Bidouille provides information about your WordPress and contains optimization tools. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 25 days ago |
| Widget Disable Disable sidebar and dashboard widgets with an easy to use interface. | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 2 months ago |
| Media Deduper Save disk space and bring some order to the chaos of your media library by removing and preventing duplicate files. | 9,000+ | 3.8★ | 9 months ago |
| View Admin As View the WordPress admin as a different role or visitor, switch between users, temporarily change your capabilities, set screen settings for roles. | 9,000+ | 4.9★ | 21 months ago · quiet |
| WPCore Plugin Manager Create plugin collections and install them in one click on any WordPress site. | 9,000+ | 4.8★ | 16 months ago |
| ACF qTranslate Provides qTranslate compatible ACF field types for Text, Text Area, WYSIWYG, Image and File. | 8,000+ | 4.5★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| Daddy Plus Daddy Plus is a useful plugin for WordPress theme by Themes Daddy. | 8,000+ | — | 2 days ago |
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