10 Best Simple Side Tab Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Simple Side Tab has 10,000+ 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 Simple Side Tab
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WP-PageNavi
Closest match4.7 (149) 500,000+ active installsAdds a more advanced paging navigation interface.
Shares the navigation tag on WordPress.org. About 50 times the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
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4.9 (144) 10,000+ active installsCreate responsive tabs inside your posts, pages or custom post content by adding simple shortcodes inside the post editor.
Shares the tab tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since August 17, 2025.
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4.2 (41) 4,000+ active installsA responsive & clean way to display your content. Create new tabs in no-time (custom type) and copy-paste the shortcode into any post/page.
Shares the tab tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated January 29, 2026.
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Tabs Responsive – With WooCommerce Product Tabs Extension
4.7 (501) 20,000+ active installsTabs Responsive is the most easiest drag & drop Tabs builder for WordPress. You can add unlimited Tabs with unlimited color Scheme.
Shares the tab tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated June 30, 2026.
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Tab – Accordion, FAQ
4.7 (56) 1,000+ active installsTab allows you to create a simple tabs, responsive tab, animation tab, horizontal tab, vertical tab, circle tab, FAQ, accordion, animation accordion.
Shares the tab tag on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 10,000+, no update since September 6, 2022.
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4.6 (30) 10,000+ active installsAllow your visitors to contact you via mobile phones, or access your site's pages instantly.
Shares the call to action tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated June 15, 2026.
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Boxzilla – WordPress Popup Builder
4.8 (132) 20,000+ active installsCreate WordPress popup and slide-in boxes for forms, offers, notices, and calls to action
Shares the call to action tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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4.5 (249) 100,000+ active installsA highly customizable, easy-to-use popular posts plugin!
About 10 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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WP STAGING
Paid version availableWP STAGING – WordPress Backups, Restore, Migration & Clone
4.8 (2,464) 100,000+ active installsWordPress backup plugin: backups, restore & migration in minutes. Clone or duplicate your site, test updates on a staging copy. 100% unit-tested.
About 10 times the installs, last updated today.
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4.5 (252) 100,000+ active installsSchema & Structured Data adds Google Rich Snippets markup according to Schema.org guidelines to structure your site for SEO.
About 10 times the installs, last updated 11 days ago.
Switching from Simple Side Tab: common questions
What is the best alternative to Simple Side Tab?
WP-PageNavi is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 500,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which Simple Side Tab alternative has the most users?
WP-PageNavi, with 500,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Simple Side Tab alternative is rated highest?
Tabby Responsive Tabs, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 144 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Simple Side Tab 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 Simple Side Tab 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 Simple Side Tab 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-PageNavi is the closest match to Simple Side Tab by the data we track, and WP-PageNavi has the widest reach with 500,000+ active installs. WP STAGING shipped the most recent release, on September 6, 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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