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Best Free WordPress Plugins for Select

15 plugins compared · Updated August 2026 · Select

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Choosing a WordPress plugin for select comes down to a few things: whether it is still actively maintained, whether real users rate it well, and whether it does the specific job you need without dragging the rest of the site down.

We ranked 15 plugins using our WPScore, which weighs the user rating (adjusted for how many people actually rated it), how many sites run it, how recently it was updated, and which WordPress version it is tested against. 15 of them have enough public data to be scored; the rest are listed below the ranked block, clearly marked, rather than being given a number we cannot justify.

How this list is funded. Some links here earn us a commission if you buy. It costs you nothing extra, and it does not move anything up the list — the order comes from the WPScore, which is calculated from public ratings, install counts and update history. See the method.

At a glance

  1. 1. Navigation menu as Dropdown Widget Best overall 82/100
  2. 2. RY City Select for WooCommerce 82/100
  3. 3. Categories Metabox Enhanced 81/100
  4. 4. PRyC WP: TinyMCE more buttons 80/100
  5. 5. Select All Categories and Taxonomies, Change Checkbox to Rad... 79/100
  6. 6. WP Required Taxonomies 79/100
  7. 7. Simple Page Access Restriction 78/100
  8. 8. Shipping Method Display Style for WooCommerce 78/100
  9. 9. Advanced Custom Fields: Image Size Select Field 78/100
  10. 10. Frontype 76/100
  11. 11. WP Chosen 74/100
  12. 12. JSM User Locale Selector 74/100
  13. 13. WC City Select 69/100
  14. 14. Gift Wrapping for WooCommerce 68/100
  15. 15. Dropdown multisite selector 68/100
1 Navigation menu as Dropdown Widget
Best overall Free by Jeroen Peters

Navigation menu as Dropdown Widget

WordPress plugin which provides a widget with a clickable dropdown of a WordPress navigation menu. It supports one level of parent-child menu's.

5★
from 10 ratings
2k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
82

WPScore

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3 Categories Metabox Enhanced
Free by Yoren Chang

Categories Metabox Enhanced

Replace the checkboxes with radio buttons or a select drop-down in the built-in Categories metabox and the Block Editor sidebar panel.

4.9★
from 16 ratings
1k+
active installs
Updated
Jun 2026
Tested to
WP 7.0.4
81

WPScore

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4 PRyC WP: TinyMCE more buttons
Free by Patryk

PRyC WP: TinyMCE more buttons

Add more buttons (third line/row) to default TinyMCE editor: select font, select font size, select style, text background color, new document, cut and …

5★
from 2 ratings
1k+
active installs
Updated
Jun 2026
Tested to
WP 7.0.4
80

WPScore

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7 Simple Page Access Restriction
Free by Plugins and Snippets

Simple Page Access Restriction

This plugin offers a simple way to restrict visits to select pages only to logged-in users and allows for page redirection to an existing login page.

4.9★
from 32 ratings
6k+
active installs
Updated
Feb 2026
Tested to
WP 6.9.7
78

WPScore

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10 Frontype
Free by Jose Mortellaro

Frontype

It lets you set a custom post type as a front page.

4.5★
from 4 ratings
300+
active installs
Updated
May 2026
Tested to
WP 7.0.4
76

WPScore

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11 WP Chosen
Free by John James Jacoby

WP Chosen

Make long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly.

4.3★
from 6 ratings
80+
active installs
Updated
Mar 2026
Tested to
WP 7.0.4
74

WPScore

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