8 Best Fancy Admin UI Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Fancy Admin UI has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 8 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 8 closest alternatives to Fancy Admin UI
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White Label
Closest matchWhite Label – WordPress Custom Admin, Custom Login Page, and Custom Dashboard
5.0 (21) 10,000+ active installsOur White Label WordPress plugin lets you make a custom admin experience. Create a custom login page, a custom dashboard, and much more.
Shares the custom admin tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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4.9 (21) 800+ active installsImprove WooCommerce UX with AJAX cart updates, quantity buttons, streamlined checkout, and more — for a faster, smoother buying experience.
Shares the ux tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated July 15, 2026.
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5.0 (23) 5,000+ active installsPreserves the category hierarchy on the post editing screen
Shares the ui tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.9 (35) 10,000+ active installsEasily define additional CSS (inline and/or by URL) to be added to all administration pages.
Shares the admin theme tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated December 8, 2025.
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4.7 (44) 6,000+ active installsA clean, simplified WordPress Admin theme.
Shares the admin theme tag on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, no update since January 31, 2022.
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4.4 (35) 3,000+ active installsMaterial Design inspired admin theme with a customisable color scheme. Add your own custom logo to match your website.
Shares the admin theme tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since May 31, 2021.
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4.8 (30) 3,000+ active installsA clean, lightweight dark mode for the WordPress admin dashboard.
Shares the admin theme tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
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UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages
4.1 (21) 6,000+ active installsEffortless custom WordPress admin dashboards.
Shares the admin theme tag on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
Switching from Fancy Admin UI: common questions
What is the best alternative to Fancy Admin UI?
White Label is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Fancy Admin UI alternative has the most users?
White Label, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Are these Fancy Admin UI 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 Fancy Admin UI 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 Fancy Admin UI 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
White Label is the closest match to Fancy Admin UI by the data we track, and White Label has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. UiPress lite shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 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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