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Admin Columns
Make your WordPress backend actually readable for once.
HealthyGrowing
97/100
The plugin provides excellent admin customization but occasionally suffers from unstable update cycles.
Active installs
~111,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.9★
1,650 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+212%
Growing fast
293 → 915 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +212% in the last year
293/day a year ago→915/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAdmin Columns is a well-regarded and widely-adopted plugin for customizing WordPress admin list views, trusted across many sites, though at least one user raises concerns about an unstable release cycle with insufficiently tested updates.
What people like
- +Widely trusted across multiple client and personal sites×4
- +Effectively cleans up and customizes admin post/page list views×3
- +Works well with custom post types and WooCommerce×2
- +Supports adding custom columns to non-standard screens like the Users page
- +Responsive and knowledgeable support
Common complaints
- −Updates are released without thorough testing, leading to frequent bug-fix updates that users find disruptive
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.90★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 1,650 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-11★★★★★Great pluginSeila162
- 2026-03-06★★★★★Nice to see what you want to seeDaniel J. Dick
- 2026-03-03★★★★★TopAglae
- 2026-02-26★★★★★Extension vraiment utile !tristanw07
- 2026-02-10★★★★★Does exactly what I neededdotmandesign
- 2026-02-10★★★★★Viewing the list of articles has become more intuitive.boolsee
- 2026-02-07★★★★★Works for meericmacknight
- 2026-02-03★★★★★So annoyedmikenlanggio1
- 2025-12-25★★★★★Added the columns that I needednextstyledesigns
- 2025-12-04★★★★★Brillantclementlemagnifique
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
718
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
853
Prior 7-day baseline
762
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
16,237
Mean release-day peak (30d)
2,519
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-15.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
9%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.74
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
98%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-18%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.91 → 4.90★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered