10 Best Floating Publish Button Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Floating Publish Button has 1,000+ 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 Floating Publish Button
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Admin Collapse Subpages
Closest match4.9 (20) 4,000+ active installsUsing this plugin one can easily collapse/expand pages with children and grand children.
Shares the admin, page, post tags on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, no update since July 9, 2019.
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4.9 (22) 500+ active installsEnable tabs in the edit screen and manage them from the back-end.
Shares the admin, page, post tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since February 28, 2021.
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4.7 (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, backend tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since August 2, 2018.
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4.8 (53) 8,000+ active installsAttachments allows you to simply append any number of items from your WordPress Media Library to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types
Shares the page, post tags on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, last updated December 30, 2025.
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4.8 (21) 300+ active installsSave time switching between posts of any post-type in wp-admin.
Shares the page, post tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since April 3, 2020.
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4.3 (23) 6,000+ active installsLike Dislike for WordPress Posts | WordPress Page | Custom Post Types
Shares the page, post tags on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, last updated May 23, 2026.
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4.6 (48) 10,000+ active installsGet a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Search, add, edit, view, re-order – all is just one click away!
Shares the admin, page tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated May 21, 2026.
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4.6 (59) 30,000+ active installsCustomize the management screen UI.
Shares the admin, page, post tags on WordPress.org. About 30 times the installs, no update since November 20, 2024.
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4.9 (26) 3,000+ active installsAdd notes to the "edit post" and "edit page" sidebars. Collaborators can also share notes on the WordPress dashboard.
Shares the admin, post tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since August 20, 2020.
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4.3 (52) 300+ active installsCreate forms and manage submissions easily with a simple interface. Contact forms, subscription forms, or other forms for WordPress. Absolutely FREE!
Shares the admin, post tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since November 13, 2019.
Switching from Floating Publish Button: common questions
What is the best alternative to Floating Publish Button?
Admin Collapse Subpages is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 4,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Floating Publish Button alternative has the most users?
WP Admin UI Customize, with 30,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Floating Publish Button alternative is rated highest?
Attachments, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 53 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Floating Publish Button 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 Floating Publish Button 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 Floating Publish Button 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
Admin Collapse Subpages is the closest match to Floating Publish Button by the data we track, and WP Admin UI Customize has the widest reach with 30,000+ active installs. Posts Like Dislike shipped the most recent release, on May 23, 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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