Show IDs on admin pages for posts, pages, categories, taxonomies, custom post types and more.
As of April 2026, Show IDs by Echo is a WordPress id plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 27K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.5+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Reveal IDs.
This plugin shows (reveals) IDs on admin screens that list posts, pages, custom post types and taxonomies, and others.
You can choose to display the ID in a new ‘ID’ column and/or under each row title after the ‘Edit | Quick Edit | View’ actions.
Choose where to display IDs:
Reveal IDs in the following lists:
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Why on earth this is not in core is beyond me!
A MUST have for any serious WordPress website builder. There are so many plugins which require the ID of a post or page to use in a shortcode, for example. Try to explain to a novice client hovering over the page/post title to reveal the ID in the lower left of the browser 🙂
Simple. Effective.
Cheers!
Lyle
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.5+ required |
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