This plugin adds a search engine to the WordPress dashboard.
As of April 2026, Smart Admin Search is a WordPress admin plugin with 30 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Top alternative: Loginizer.
With Smart Admin Search you can quickly find contents in the WordPress dashboard without going up and down on the admin menu.
Just click on the top-right link or press a keyboard shortcut to open the search box, then type what you are looking for. Easy!
Currently Smart Admin Search can find:
Configuration
Settings for the plugin are available on the Settings -> Smart Admin Search page.
Some things you can do in the settings page:
Permissions
The search box can be used by users of any role. Each user will get results available for the assigned role.
For pages and po…
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
1.5.1 [2024-07-14]
1.5.0 [2023-09-15]
1.4.1 [2023-04-10]
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