10 Best Daddy Plus Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Daddy Plus has 8,000+ 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 Daddy Plus
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Featured Galleries
Closest match4.7 (20) 3,000+ active installsDo you like giving posts a Featured Image? Try out a Featured Gallery. It's like a Featured Images ... except as many images as you want.
Shares the admin, featured tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since August 2, 2018.
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4.8 (24) 10,000+ active installsDisable sidebar and dashboard widgets with an easy to use interface.
Shares the admin, widgets tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated July 17, 2026.
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4.8 (29) 4,000+ active installsA plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types.
Shares the featured tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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Featured Image from URL (FIFU)
4.6 (264) 60,000+ active installsUse remote media as the featured image and beyond.
Shares the featured tag on WordPress.org. About 7.5 times the installs, last updated 6 days ago.
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4.8 (38) 30,000+ active installsEasily control whether the featured image appears in the single post or page view (doesn't hide it in archive/list view).
Shares the featured tag on WordPress.org. About 3.8 times the installs, last updated May 3, 2026.
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5.0 (23) 2,000+ active installsAdd the featured image into your RSS feed (in the media:content). Works nicely with Mailchimp (|RSSITEM:IMAGE|). Light and simple, no options, no clut …
Shares the featured tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since October 12, 2023.
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4.5 (97) 30,000+ active installsShow and hide widgets on specific posts, pages and sections of your site.
Shares the widgets tag on WordPress.org. About 3.8 times the installs, last updated May 18, 2026.
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4.9 (54) 20,000+ active installsEasily assign custom, widget-enabled sidebars to any page.
Shares the widgets tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, no update since February 23, 2025.
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4.9 (74) 80,000+ active installsAdd custom classes and ids plus first, last, even, odd, and numbered classes to your widgets.
Shares the widgets tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since November 12, 2024.
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4.2 (21) 80,000+ active installsCreate new sidebar areas and display them conditionally on certain pages. Works with all themes.
Shares the widgets tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
Switching from Daddy Plus: common questions
What is the best alternative to Daddy Plus?
Featured Galleries is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 3,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which Daddy Plus alternative has the most users?
Widget CSS Classes, with 80,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Daddy Plus alternative is rated highest?
Widget CSS Classes, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 74 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Daddy Plus 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 Daddy Plus 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 Daddy Plus 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
Featured Galleries is the closest match to Daddy Plus by the data we track, and Widget CSS Classes has the widest reach with 80,000+ active installs. NS Featured Posts shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 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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