10 Best WP Hide Dashboard Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
WP Hide Dashboard has 2,000+ 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 Hide Dashboard
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Hide Admin Bar
Closest match4.5 (30) 20,000+ active installsHide the Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1+.
Shares the admin, admin bar, hide tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated November 4, 2025.
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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, hide tags on WordPress.org. About 2 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, dashboard tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
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4.3 (48) 20,000+ active installsAdds a Dashboard widget that displays the latest messages from your PHP error log. It can also send logged errors to email.
Shares the admin, administration tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated October 1, 2025.
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4.2 (26) 3,000+ active installsRelative URL applies wp_make_link_relative function to links to convert them to relative URLs.
Shares the admin, administration tags on WordPress.org. About 1.5 times the installs, no update since August 11, 2021.
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4.3 (29) 10,000+ active installsAutomatically detects a domain name change, and updates all the WordPress tables in the database to reflect this change.
Shares the admin, administration tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated May 8, 2026.
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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, administration tags on WordPress.org. About 4.5 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 3.5 times the installs, no update since February 9, 2018.
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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 3.5 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 5 times the installs, last updated July 17, 2026.
Switching from WP Hide Dashboard: common questions
What is the best alternative to WP Hide Dashboard?
Hide Admin Bar is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 20,000+ active installs with a 4.5 out of 5 rating.
Which WP Hide Dashboard alternative has the most users?
Hide Admin Bar, with 20,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which WP Hide Dashboard alternative is rated highest?
Erident Custom Login and Dashboard, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 150 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these WP Hide Dashboard 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 Hide Dashboard 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 Hide Dashboard 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
Hide Admin Bar is the closest match to WP Hide Dashboard by the data we track, and Hide Admin Bar has the widest reach with 20,000+ active installs. Auto Hide Admin Bar shipped the most recent release, on August 15, 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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