10 Best Editor Menu and Widget Access Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Editor Menu and Widget Access has 7,000+ 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 Editor Menu and Widget Access
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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 menu, menus tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since June 9, 2020.
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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 10 times the installs, last updated March 26, 2026.
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5.0 (20) 1,000+ active installsSeamlessly adds 3 new menu locations to the admin toolbar.
Shares the menu, menus tags on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 7,000+, no update since June 2, 2024.
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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. A similar number of installs, no update since June 10, 2025.
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Widgets in Menu for WordPress
4.8 (21) 8,000+ active installsAllows you to add Widgets in WordPress Navigation Menus
Shares the menus, widgets tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since June 27, 2018.
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Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars)
4.8 (38) 1,000+ active installsAdd off-canvas sidebars (Slidebars) containing widgets, menus or other content using the Slidebars jQuery plugin.
Shares the menus, widgets tags on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 7,000+, last updated February 2, 2026.
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Faster Appearance – Menus
4.9 (29) 200+ active installsWatch the video
Shares the appearance, menus tags on WordPress.org. 200+ installs against 7,000+, no update since August 20, 2013.
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5.0 (23) 10,000+ active installsA flexible and robust accordion menu plugin
Shares the menu, widgets tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since May 19, 2025.
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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 widget, widgets tags on WordPress.org. About 4.3 times the installs, last updated May 18, 2026.
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4.8 (60) 10,000+ active installsEdit widget content using the default WordPress visual editor and media uploading functionality. Create widgets like you would create posts or pages.
Shares the widget, widgets tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 18 days ago.
Switching from Editor Menu and Widget Access: common questions
What is the best alternative to Editor Menu and Widget Access?
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 Editor Menu and Widget Access alternative has the most users?
Nav Menu Roles, with 70,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Editor Menu and Widget Access alternative is rated highest?
Nav Menu Roles, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 219 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Editor Menu and Widget Access 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 Editor Menu and Widget Access 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 Editor Menu and Widget Access 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 Editor Menu and Widget Access by the data we track, and Nav Menu Roles has the widest reach with 70,000+ active installs. Widget Content Blocks shipped the most recent release, on August 20, 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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