9 Best Dark Mode Toggle Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Dark Mode Toggle has 2,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 9 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 9 closest alternatives to Dark Mode Toggle
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Dark Mode & Night Mode – Darkify
4.8 (22) 700+ active installsDarkify Dark Mode adds dark mode and night mode to WordPress websites and admin dashboards using a fast, lightweight, customizable dark mode toggle.
Shares the dark, dark mode, dark theme tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 2 days ago.
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Darklup – Enhanced WordPress Dark Mode, Dark Theme, Night Mode & Accessibility Plugin
4.5 (44) 1,000+ active installsExperience Darklup — Your WordPress ally for dark mode, dark themes, night mode and accessibility. Switch to an eye-friendly more inclusive web experi …
Shares the dark mode, dark theme tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 20 days ago.
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4.8 (30) 3,000+ active installsA clean, lightweight dark mode for the WordPress admin dashboard.
Shares the dark mode, Night Mode tags on WordPress.org. About 1.5 times the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
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4.5 (23) 700+ active installsAllow users to change the website style while reading at night, enabling them to easily read and spend more time on your site.
Shares the dark tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since November 9, 2020.
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Adminify – White Label, Admin Menu Editor, Login Customizer
4.3 (109) 6,000+ active installsWhite label WordPress admin, admin menu editor, login page customizer, admin dark mode, media library folders, admin columns.
Shares the dark mode tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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4.2 (43) 9,000+ active installsAllows you to embed content within your blog post via WordPress ShortCode API and toggling the visibility of the content via a button.
Shares the toggle tag on WordPress.org. About 4.5 times the installs, last updated 29 days ago.
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4.6 (24) 4,000+ active installsArconix Shortcodes provides a number of useful design elements like buttons, boxes, tabs and toggles to help compliment any website.
Shares the toggle tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated July 30, 2026.
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4.7 (79) 6,000+ active installsArconix FAQ provides an easy way to add FAQ items to your website.
Shares the toggle tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since June 10, 2025.
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4.4 (50) 2,000+ active installsSimple plugin for WooCommerce which toggle grid / list view of your products and toggle products count per page.
Shares the toggle tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 10 days ago.
Switching from Dark Mode Toggle: common questions
What is the best alternative to Dark Mode Toggle?
Darkify is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 700+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Dark Mode Toggle alternative has the most users?
WP-ShowHide, with 9,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Dark Mode Toggle alternative is rated highest?
Arconix FAQ, rated 4.7 out of 5 by 79 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Dark Mode Toggle 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 Dark Mode Toggle 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 Dark Mode Toggle 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
Darkify is the closest match to Dark Mode Toggle by the data we track, and WP-ShowHide has the widest reach with 9,000+ active installs. Darkify shipped the most recent release, on September 5, 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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