Improve your productivity with this "2-in-1" save button! It saves the post and immediately takes you to your next action.
As 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.
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.)
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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.
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.
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 😀
How do I donate to it?
The developers website doesn’t seem to active.
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!
| WordPress | 3.5.1+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Release Date: February 22, 2017
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