10 Best Slate Admin Theme Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Slate Admin Theme has 6,000+ 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 Slate Admin Theme
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UiPress lite
Closest matchUiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages
4.1 (21) 6,000+ active installsEffortless custom WordPress admin dashboards.
Shares the admin theme, White Label tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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AGCA – Custom Dashboard & Login Page
4.5 (64) 20,000+ active installsCHANGE: admin menu, login page, admin bar, dashboard widgets, custom colors, custom CSS & JS, logo & images
Shares the White Label tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, no update since May 30, 2025.
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4.8 (22) 1,000+ active installsPuts all your pages and posts into the admin bar so you can simply hover, view & edit anything in one click.
Shares the White Label tag on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 6,000+, last updated April 22, 2026.
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Client Portal : SuiteDash Direct Login
4.9 (116) 1,000+ active installsWordPress Client Portal Plugin that allows you to add a custom login function directly on your WordPress site that is tied to your SuiteDash account.
Shares the White Label tag on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 6,000+, last updated November 19, 2025.
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White 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 White Label tag on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Branda
Paid version availableBranda – White Label & Branding, Free Login Page Customizer
4.5 (30) 20,000+ active installsWhite label & rebrand your login page & WordPress dashboard. Customize system emails & get everything to rebrand WordPress with Branda.
Shares the White Label tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 19 days ago.
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Adminify – White Label, Admin Menu Editor, Login Customizer
4.3 (109) 6,000+ active installsWhite label WordPress admin, admin menu editor, login page customizer, admin dark mode, media library folders, admin columns.
Shares the White Label tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard
4.6 (114) 60,000+ active installsThe #1 Plugin to Customize the WordPress Dashboard!
About 10 times the installs, last updated June 6, 2026.
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4.5 (159) 9,000+ active installsThis awesome plugin allows you to easily display frontend forms on your site so your clients can easily edit content by themselves from the frontend.
About 1.5 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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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 1.7 times the installs, last updated December 8, 2025.
Switching from Slate Admin Theme: common questions
What is the best alternative to Slate Admin Theme?
UiPress lite is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 6,000+ active installs with a 4.1 out of 5 rating.
Which Slate Admin Theme alternative has the most users?
Ultimate Dashboard, with 60,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Slate Admin Theme alternative is rated highest?
Client Portal, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 116 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Slate Admin Theme 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 Slate Admin Theme 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 Slate Admin Theme 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
UiPress lite is the closest match to Slate Admin Theme by the data we track, and Ultimate Dashboard has the widest reach with 60,000+ 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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