Admin Menu Editor

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Lets you edit the WordPress admin menu. You can re-order, hide or rename menus, add custom menus and more.

Author:Janis Elsts (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:4.7
WordPress version tested:6.4.3
Plugin version:1.12.1
Added to WordPress repository:13-12-2009
Last updated:19-01-2024
Rating, %:94
Rated by:289
Plugin URI:http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/12/20/admin-men...
Total downloads:5 933 132
Active installs:400 000+
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Admin Menu Editor lets you manually edit the Dashboard menu. You can reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change permissions, and more.

Features

  • Change menu titles, URLs, icons, CSS classes and so on.
  • Organize menu items via drag & drop.
  • Change menu permissions by setting the required capability or role.
  • Move a menu item to a different submenu.
  • Create custom menus that point to any part of the Dashboard or an external URL.
  • Hide/show any menu or menu item. A hidden menu is invisible to all users, including administrators.
  • Create login redirects and logout redirects.

The Pro version lets you set per-role menu permissions, hide a menu from everyone except a specific user, export your admin menu, drag items between menu levels, make menus open in a new window and more. Try online demo.

Shortcodes

The plugin provides a few utility shortcodes. These are mainly intended to help with creating login/logout redirects, but you can also use them in posts and pages.

  • [ame-wp-admin] – URL of the WordPress dashboard (with a trailing slash).
  • [ame-home-url] – Site URL. Usually, this is the same as the URL in the “Site Address” field in Settings -> General.
  • [ame-user-info field="..."] – Information about the logged-in user. Parameters:
    • field – The part of user profile to display. Supported fields include: ID, user_login, display_name, locale, user_nicename, user_url, and so on.
    • placeholder – Optional. Text that will be shown if the visitor is not logged in.
    • encoding – Optional. How to encode or escape the output. This is useful if you want to use the shortcode in your own HTML or JS code. Supported values: auto (default), html, attr, js, none.

Notes

  • If you delete any of the default menus they will reappear after saving. This is by design. To get rid of a menu for good, either hide it or change it’s access permissions.
  • In the free version, it’s not possible to give a role access to a menu item that it couldn’t see before. You can only restrict menu access further.
  • In case of emergency, you can reset the menu configuration back to the default by going to http://example.com/wp-admin/?reset_admin_menu=1 (replace example.com with your site URL). You must be logged in as an Administrator to do this.

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