7 Best Customize Twenty Seventeen Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Customize Twenty Seventeen has 2,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 7 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 7 closest alternatives to Customize Twenty Seventeen
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Options for Twenty Seventeen
Closest match4.8 (57) 8,000+ active installsAdds powerful customizer options to modify all aspects of the default WordPress theme Twenty Seventeen.
Shares the change, customize, modify tags on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 24 days ago.
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4.4 (21) 20,000+ active installsRemoves the WordPress credit on all default classic WordPress themes and replaces with a widget sidebar for those wanting to customise the theme.
Shares the customize, modify, twentyseventeen tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 24 days ago.
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4.7 (31) 3,000+ active installsAdds powerful customizer options to modify all aspects of the default WordPress theme Twenty Twenty.
Shares the change, customize, modify tags on WordPress.org. About 1.5 times the installs, last updated 24 days ago.
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4.9 (64) 6,000+ active installsAdds powerful customizer options to modify all aspects of the default WordPress theme Twenty Twenty-One.
Shares the change, customize, modify tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 24 days ago.
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4.7 (88) 60,000+ active installsRemove or change footer credits or any text or HTML without modifying code.
Shares the change, modify tags on WordPress.org. About 30 times the installs, last updated 24 days ago.
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4.7 (43) 2,000+ active installsThe Menu Swapper allows you to register custom theme locations and easily swap menus on individual Pages or Posts.
Shares the change tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since February 26, 2025.
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4.5 (26) 900+ active installsChange your database prefix to other one with just one click.
Shares the change tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since May 18, 2019.
Switching from Customize Twenty Seventeen: common questions
What is the best alternative to Customize Twenty Seventeen?
Options for Twenty Seventeen is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 8,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Customize Twenty Seventeen alternative has the most users?
Remove Footer Credit, with 60,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Customize Twenty Seventeen alternative is rated highest?
Options for Twenty Twenty-One, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 64 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Customize Twenty Seventeen 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 Customize Twenty Seventeen 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 Customize Twenty Seventeen 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
Options for Twenty Seventeen is the closest match to Customize Twenty Seventeen by the data we track, and Remove Footer Credit has the widest reach with 60,000+ active installs. Remove "Powered by WordPress" shipped the most recent release, on August 14, 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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