10 Best Admin Toolbar Menus Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Admin Toolbar Menus has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Admin Toolbar Menus
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Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu
Closest match4.9 (74) 2,000+ active installsAll admin links available in a neat horizontal drop down menu. Saves lots of screen real estate!
Shares the admin, menu, menus tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since June 9, 2020.
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4.8 (24) 7,000+ active installsAllow and control Editor and Shop Manager access to the menus, widgets and appearance menu, plus other menus and adminbar items.
Shares the menu, menus tags on WordPress.org. About 7 times the installs, no update since June 2, 2021.
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5.0 (20) 5,000+ active installsAdd navigation menu field type to Advanced Custom Fields
Shares the menu, menus tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since June 10, 2025.
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4.6 (48) 10,000+ active installsGet a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Search, add, edit, view, re-order – all is just one click away!
Shares the admin, menu tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated May 21, 2026.
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4.9 (219) 70,000+ active installsHide custom menu items based on user roles.
Shares the menu, menus tags on WordPress.org. About 70 times the installs, last updated March 26, 2026.
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User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility
5.0 (1,278) 80,000+ active installsShow/hide menu items to logged in users, logged out users or specific user roles. Display logged in user details in menu. Add a logout link to menu.
Shares the menu, menus tags on WordPress.org. About 80 times the installs, last updated May 23, 2026.
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Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus
4.3 (21) 3,000+ active installsTake full control of your WordPress admin bar: hide items, reorder menus, and design a cleaner toolbar for every user.
Shares the toolbar tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 9 days ago.
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4.8 (32) 4,000+ active installsThis plugin adds an auto-hide feature to the WordPress Admin Bar or Toolbar.
Shares the toolbar tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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4.3 (30) 10,000+ active installsHides the WordPress toolbar (admin bar) for all non-admin users. Simple plugin with no settings to configure.
Shares the toolbar tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
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4.5 (37) 10,000+ active installsFully automatic sidebar menus.
Shares the menus tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
Switching from Admin Toolbar Menus: common questions
What is the best alternative to Admin Toolbar Menus?
Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 2,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Admin Toolbar Menus alternative has the most users?
User Menus, with 80,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Admin Toolbar Menus alternative is rated highest?
User Menus, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 1,278 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Admin Toolbar Menus alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Admin Toolbar Menus score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Admin Toolbar Menus on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu is the closest match to Admin Toolbar Menus by the data we track, and User Menus has the widest reach with 80,000+ active installs. Admin Bar shipped the most recent release, on August 29, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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