10 Best What Template Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
What Template 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 What Template
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Monkeyman Rewrite Analyzer
Closest match5.0 (26) 1,000+ active installsMaking sense of the rewrite mess. Display and play with your rewrite rules.
Shares the debug, development tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since May 12, 2011.
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4.9 (882) 40,000+ active installsWhat The File is the best tool to find out what template parts are used to display the page you're currently viewing!
Shares the development, template tags on WordPress.org. About 40 times the installs, last updated February 19, 2026.
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4.9 (469) 200,000+ active installsQuery Monitor is the developer tools panel for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Shares the debug, development tags on WordPress.org. About 200 times the installs, last updated June 20, 2026.
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5.0 (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 bar tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus
4.3 (21) 3,000+ active installsTake full control of your WordPress admin bar: hide items, reorder menus, and design a cleaner toolbar for every user.
Shares the admin bar tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 9 days ago.
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4.8 (32) 4,000+ active installsThis plugin adds an auto-hide feature to the WordPress Admin Bar or Toolbar.
Shares the admin bar tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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4.3 (30) 10,000+ active installsHides the WordPress toolbar (admin bar) for all non-admin users. Simple plugin with no settings to configure.
Shares the admin bar tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
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4.8 (43) 10,000+ active installsProvides a drop-down to select different templates for posts from the post edit screen. The templates replace single.php for the specified post.
Shares the template tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.7 (50) 10,000+ active installsSelect different Themes for one or more WordPress Pages, Posts or other non-Admin pages. Or Site Home.
Shares the template tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since March 6, 2025.
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4.5 (21) 10,000+ active installsCustom blocks for WordPress made easy.
Shares the template tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated April 20, 2026.
Switching from What Template: common questions
What is the best alternative to What Template?
Monkeyman Rewrite Analyzer is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 1,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which What Template alternative has the most users?
Query Monitor, with 200,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which What Template alternative is rated highest?
What The File, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 882 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these What Template 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 What Template 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 What Template 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
Monkeyman Rewrite Analyzer is the closest match to What Template by the data we track, and Query Monitor has the widest reach with 200,000+ active installs. Admin Bar shipped the most recent release, on August 29, 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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One email a week, built from the same daily snapshots these rankings come from: the plugins that climbed, what launched, and one ranking worth a look.