10 Best Hide Plugins Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Hide Plugins 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 Hide Plugins
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WP Hide Dashboard
Closest match5.0 (20) 2,000+ active installsHide the Dashboard menu, Personal Options section and Help link on the Profile page from your subscribers when they are logged in.
Shares the admin, dashboard, hide tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.5 (30) 20,000+ active installsHide the Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1+.
Shares the admin, hidden, hide tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated November 4, 2025.
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WPCore Plugin Manager
4.8 (32) 9,000+ active installsCreate plugin collections and install them in one click on any WordPress site.
Shares the admin, plugins tags on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, no update since May 20, 2025.
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5.0 (23) 7,000+ active installsClone of the standard Meta widget plus options to hide log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress.org/custom links.
Shares the admin, hide tags on WordPress.org. About 7 times the installs, no update since February 9, 2018.
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4.9 (74) 2,000+ active installsAll admin links available in a neat horizontal drop down menu. Saves lots of screen real estate!
Shares the admin, dashboard tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since June 9, 2020.
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4.9 (150) 7,000+ active installsFully customize the WordPress Login Screen.
Shares the admin, dashboard tags on WordPress.org. About 7 times the installs, no update since November 30, 2023.
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4.8 (24) 10,000+ active installsDisable sidebar and dashboard widgets with an easy to use interface.
Shares the admin, dashboard tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated July 17, 2026.
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OpenStation: Desktop Windows, Dock & Virtual Desktops for WP Admin
5.0 (23) 2,000+ active installsA windowed workspace for wp-admin. Open posts, media, and settings side by side, with a dock, virtual desktops, and a Cmd+K palette.
Shares the admin, dashboard tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 2 days ago.
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Wp Favs – Plugin Manager
4.7 (32) 3,000+ active installsWpfavs is a plugin manager tool that let's you import your plugins lists from https://wpfavs.com
Shares the plugins tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since December 20, 2023.
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5.0 (62) 9,000+ active installsAdds a column to the Plugins page where you can add, edit, or delete notes about a plugin.
Shares the plugins tag on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, last updated July 23, 2026.
Switching from Hide Plugins: common questions
What is the best alternative to Hide Plugins?
WP Hide Dashboard is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 2,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Hide Plugins alternative has the most users?
Hide Admin Bar, with 20,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Hide Plugins alternative is rated highest?
Plugin Notes Plus, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 62 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Hide Plugins 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 Hide Plugins 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 Hide Plugins 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
WP Hide Dashboard is the closest match to Hide Plugins by the data we track, and Hide Admin Bar has the widest reach with 20,000+ active installs. OpenStation shipped the most recent release, on September 4, 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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