10 Best WP Custom Admin Interface Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
WP Custom Admin Interface has 30,000+ 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 WP Custom Admin Interface
- 1
Category Posts in Custom Menu
Closest match4.8 (43) 2,000+ active installsDynamic menus: List all posts from a category in your menu. Also works for tags, custom taxonomies as well as pages and custom post types.
Shares the menu tag on WordPress.org. 2,000+ installs against 30,000+, last updated 10 days ago.
- 2
Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields
4.8 (418) 100,000+ active installsPods is a framework for creating, managing, and deploying customized content types and fields for any project.
About 3.3 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 7 days ago.
- 3
Custom Sidebars – Dynamic Sidebar Classic Widget Area Manager
4.7 (1,028) 100,000+ active installsFlexible sidebars for custom classic widget configurations on any page or post. Create custom sidebars with ease!
About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 22 days ago.
- 4
Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress
4.7 (1,508) 200,000+ active installsFormerly "Custom Facebook Feed". Display completely customizable Facebook feeds of a Facebook page. Supports Facebook oEmbeds.
About 6.7 times the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
- 5
4.8 (572) 300,000+ active installsEasily reorder posts, pages, custom post types, and taxonomies with intuitive drag-and-drop sorting in the WordPress admin.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 11 days ago.
- 6
Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field
4.9 (36) 90,000+ active installsAdds a new 'Font Awesome Icon' field to the popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
About 3 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
- 7
Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget
4.8 (401) 100,000+ active installsDisplay X posts (Twitter tweets) from any public user account in a clean, attractive looking feed that updates weekly.
About 3.3 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 13 days ago.
- 8
ECS – Ele Custom Skin for Elementor
4.6 (117) 100,000+ active installsSeven free modules for Elementor: dark mode, container layouts, mobile menu, editorial text, style presets, JSON editor — all modular, all free.
About 3.3 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.7, last updated 18 days ago.
- 9
Skyboot Custom Icons for Elementor – Elementor Icons library – 14300+ Icons
5.0 (20) 200,000+ active installsSkyboot Custom Icons for Elementor expands your Elementor icons library with custom icons, perfect for website owners who use the Elementor plugin.
About 6.7 times the installs, last updated 27 days ago.
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Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE)
5.0 (422) 200,000+ active installsDuplicate post, post order, image resize, email via SMTP, admin menu editor, custom css / code, disable gutenberg and much more in a single plugin.
About 6.7 times the installs, rated 5.0 against 4.7, last updated today.
Switching from WP Custom Admin Interface: common questions
What is the best alternative to WP Custom Admin Interface?
Category Posts in Custom Menu is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 2,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which WP Custom Admin Interface alternative has the most users?
Simple Custom Post Order, with 300,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which WP Custom Admin Interface alternative is rated highest?
Admin and Site Enhancements, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 422 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these WP Custom Admin Interface 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 WP Custom Admin Interface 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 WP Custom Admin Interface 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
Category Posts in Custom Menu is the closest match to WP Custom Admin Interface by the data we track, and Simple Custom Post Order has the widest reach with 300,000+ active installs. Admin and Site Enhancements shipped the most recent release, on September 7, 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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