WPC Admin Columns: worth using for WooCommerce, not as a full admin-table system

WPC Admin Columns is worth using for a specific job: turning WooCommerce’s sparse product and order lists into more useful working screens. It adds a central column-management interface where you can enable or disable columns, drag them into a new order, change their widths, and add custom columns containing text or shortcodes. It also supports posts, pages, taxonomies, comments, attachments, and the Plugins screen, so it is not limited entirely to stores.

The strongest part is the WooCommerce integration. Product columns can expose details such as SKU, product type, stock, dimensions, featured images, gallery images, status, and metadata. Order columns cover details including status, billing, payment, shipping, totals, notes, and customer information. The plugin also understands several WPClever extensions, including product collections, brands, pricing plugins, timers, and wishlist data. That makes it particularly convenient for stores already built around the WPClever ecosystem.

There is a useful editing angle too. The developer documents editable columns for product SKUs, featured images, and gallery images, while the changelog records support for select and multiple-select custom data. For order-heavy stores, being able to inspect notes or extra order information from the list table can remove a surprising amount of repetitive clicking. The free plugin currently requires WordPress 5.9 or later and is listed with more than 1,000 active installations. ([wordpress.org](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpc-admin-columns/))

The weaknesses are more important if you are evaluating it as a general admin-management tool. WPC Admin Columns improves what is displayed, but it does not appear to provide the kind of serious filtering system many large content libraries need. A WordPress.org support request specifically asked for extra dropdown filters based on taxonomies or custom fields, and the request remained unresolved. That means you may still need a separate filtering plugin to locate products or posts efficiently. ([wordpress.org](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-filter-feature/))

Its support record is also too small to treat the five-star rating as strong evidence: WordPress.org shows only four reviews, including one user who reported that the plugin made no changes and added no columns. The issue may be site-specific, but it is a reminder to test the plugin on a staging site, especially when another plugin controls the same list table. The changelog also shows fixes for custom fields, permissions, backend CSS and JavaScript, Select2 behavior, and WooCommerce Custom Order Tables, so compatibility has required ongoing maintenance. ([wordpress.org](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpc-admin-columns/))

Compared with Admin Columns from Codepress, WPC Admin Columns is narrower but more immediately WooCommerce-oriented. Admin Columns has a much larger ecosystem, extensive custom-field support, and a stronger track record for complex post, media, user, and comment management. WPC Admin Columns makes more sense when its ready-made WooCommerce and WPClever columns match your workflow. It is also worth noting that the developer reserves Users-table customization and WooCommerce Custom Order Tables support for the premium version, so the free version is not the complete product. ([wpclever.net](https://wpclever.net/downloads/wpc-admin-columns/))

Verdict: use it when you want a cleaner WooCommerce back end without buying a heavyweight admin-table framework. Skip it for advanced filtering, extensive custom-field administration, or a large multisite editorial operation; Admin Columns is the safer long-term choice there.