FV Clone Screen Options

46 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

With about 1,000 active installs, this is a niche utility plugin with a small but focused user base, far below the install counts of mainstream admin or builder tools.

Update Freshness

4/25

The plugin was updated on December 31, 2024, and is confirmed compatible with WordPress 6.7.5, which is a positive sign, though update frequency over a longer history is not clearly documented in the data.

User Rating

14/15

A rating of 92 out of 100 from 11 reviewers is strong, though the small sample size means the score should be treated as indicative rather than definitive.

Support Health

8/15

Support Health sits at 50 with zero support threads and zero resolutions, which is statistically meaningless and means there is simply no public record of users needing or receiving help.

WP Compatibility

8/15

Compatibility scores 50, and while it is tested against WordPress 6.7.5, the lack of a stated minimum PHP version is a minor concern for sites running modern PHP 8.x environments.

Scores higher than 2% of indexed plugins

About

Simple plugin which lets you manage Screen Options of all the users on your blog.

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.6/5

Last Updated 2024-12-31 3:32pm GMT

Requires WordPress 2.7+

Tested Up To 6.7.7

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

FV Clone Screen Options lets administrators copy the Screen Options layout (such as the number of columns shown on edit screens or which meta boxes are visible) from one user account to every other user on the site. It solves the problem of having to manually configure the same Screen Options preferences for dozens or hundreds of users on multi-author sites. Once configured, the chosen layout is applied site-wide without any per-user intervention.

Who It's For

This plugin is built for site administrators on multi-author WordPress installations who need a consistent admin interface across all users, such as editorial teams, university departments, or agencies managing multiple contributor accounts. It is particularly useful when you want every editor to see the same columns, meta boxes, or Screen Options tab settings without contacting each user individually. Anyone running a single-author blog or a small site with a handful of users will find it overkill.

Who Should Skip It

If you run a single-author site or manage fewer than five users, you do not need this plugin and can configure Screen Options manually in a few minutes. Likewise, if you only need to hide certain admin menus or meta boxes per role, a dedicated admin customization plugin like Admin Menu Editor will give you more control.

The Bottom Line

FV Clone Screen Options does one specific job, cloning Screen Options settings across users, and it does it well enough to earn a 92 user rating, but its overall quality score of 49.94 reflects the limits of a tiny install base and a thin support footprint. If you administer a multi-author site where consistent admin screen layouts matter, this is a useful, lightweight tool worth trying. For everyone else, the effort of installing and managing another plugin is not justified.

Pick Elementor if your goal is to standardize the front-end editing experience for content creators rather than to manage back-end Screen Options.

Spectra Legacy – Gutenberg Blocks 95/100

Pick Spectra if you want to control which Gutenberg blocks and layout controls are visible to your editorial team across the site.

Kadence Blocks — Page Builder Toolkit for Gutenberg Editor 89/100

Pick Kadence Blocks if your team needs consistent block-based page-building settings and design controls across multiple authors.

Classic Widgets 89/100

Pick Classic Widgets if you mainly need to enforce a uniform widget management interface across users, which is a different but related standardization problem.

Disable Gutenberg 88/100

Pick Disable Gutenberg if your real concern is ensuring every editor uses the same editor interface, rather than controlling Screen Options layout details.