Improved Save Button
Improve your productivity with this "2-in-1" save button! It saves the post and immediately takes you to your next action.
5(26 reviews)
·4.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Improved Save Button is a WordPress edit plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 26 reviews. It has been downloaded 19K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 11% this week. Top alternative: Forget About Shortcode Buttons.
5/526 reviews
4.0K+active installs
19K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
This plugin adds a new and improved “Save” button to the Post Edit screen that, in a single click, saves the current post and immediately takes you to your next action.
(WordPress 5 info: see below for particularities for WordPress 5.)
The following actions are available:
- Save and New: in a single click, saves the current post and goes to New Post Screen.
- Save and Duplicate: saves the post, duplicates it and goes to this new post’s Edit Screen.
- Save and List (a.k.a. Save and Close): saves the post and goes to the Posts List.
- Save and Return: saves the post and returns you to the page where you were just before (no matter which page).
- Save and Next: saves the post and goes to the next post’s Edit Screen.
- Save and Previous: saves the post and goes to the previous po…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Still works great!
by Alisha Thomas·1 year ago
Love this plugin! I use CPTs on every site I built, and this plugin just makes it so much faster to add and update new CPTs. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but still works excellently. The only bummer is it doesn’t work with the Gutenberg editor, so if this is still turned on for a CPT, it won’t work. Would love to see this updated at some point, but in the meantime, I am very happy with it.
Should be a core component
by globalexposures·5 years ago
This should be core part of WordPress. Several of my clients were distressed when it looked like this plugin was abaondoned. So relieved to have it updated recently.
This is a lifesaver
by rallisf1·6 years ago
Still works on WP 5.2.2, also works on custom post types that use /edit layout (e.g. Woocommerce products).
You saved me many hours of just watching the backend reload 😀
Great!
by scottmunson·7 years ago
How do I donate to it?
The developers website doesn’t seem to active.
Huge Time Saver!
by Jane·7 years ago
My admin side is a bit laggy during the development phase, so I often Save in one browser tab while I modify in another and it was aggravating to always have to pop back to the first tab just to switch screens to go back to the list of items, or worse, have to go to the next item, and have to make two selections. Now, with a simple click – POOF! – I’m where I need to be.
I came from Joomla where this simple, glaringly-necessary option was a part of core and was shockingly dismayed that WordPress did not include it.
Big kudos to the Dev for providing this plugin!
Download Trends
Today: 3Yesterday: 8This week: 49Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5.1+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.1
Release Date: February 22, 2017
- Bug fix: “Save and next/previous” actions were skipping posts when multiple posts had the exact same date (which happens when batch importing posts).
Contributors
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