Kirtikumar Solanki

<p>AdminForge – Admin Management Toolkit (Free) helps site owners clean up the WordPress admin area without editing theme files or writing custom code.</p>
<p>This version focuses on practical day-to-day admin improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Hide admin menu items per role.</li>
<li>Hide core dashboard widgets per role.</li>
<li>Customize the admin footer text.</li>
<li>Hide the front-end admin bar for selected roles.</li>
</ul>
<p>All settings are available from a single screen under <strong>Settings -> Admin Toolkit</strong>.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Admin menu control</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Detects currently registered admin menu slugs.</li>
<li>Lets you hide selected menu items for each role.</li>
<li>Helpful for reducing clutter for editors, authors, and shop managers.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Dashboard widget manager</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Toggle common core dashboard widgets per role.</li>
<li>Keeps the Dashboard focused on only what each role needs.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Admin UI customization</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Replace the default admin footer text.</li>
<li>Hide the front-end admin bar for specific roles.</li>
<li>Uses safe sanitization for saved values.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Included in this free version</h4>
<ul>
<li>Admin menu control</li>
<li>Dashboard widget control</li>
<li>Admin footer customization</li>
<li>Front-end admin bar visibility by role</li>
</ul>
<h4>Not included in this free version</h4>
<ul>
<li>Role-based wp-admin access restriction</li>
<li>Performance tuning options</li>
<li>Login branding and role-based login redirects</li>
<li>XML-RPC and hardening toggles</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Open <strong>Settings -> Admin Toolkit</strong>.</li>
<li>Choose a tab:
<ul>
<li><strong>Admin menu control</strong> – hide selected menu slugs per role.</li>
<li><strong>Dashboard widgets</strong> – hide selected core dashboard widgets per role.</li>
<li><strong>Admin UI customization</strong> – set custom footer text and admin bar visibility.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Save changes.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Tips</h4>
<ul>
<li>Menu slug list is generated from current admin menus.<br />
If a plugin menu is missing, open any admin page once, then reload the tab.</li>
<li>Role-based settings apply to users who have that role.</li>
<li>Front-end admin bar visibility only affects the site front end, not wp-admin screens.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Uninstall</h3>
<p>When deleted from the Plugins screen, the plugin removes its saved option (<code>afamt_options</code>).</p>


AdminForge – Admin Management Toolkit

Streamline wp-admin with role-based menu visibility, dashboard widget cleanup, and lightweight admin UI customization.

scribu

newvibe

<p><strong><em>Must use Classic Editor plugin</em></strong> – Add to my list of gripes with Gutenberg that it uses the REST API to display the categories, adding nothing to the categories box for the user while rendering the wp_terms_checklist_args filter useless.  If you don’t already use the Classic Editor plugin (installed more than 5 million times to date), you’ll have to use it for this plugin to work.  I’m looking for a work-around…</p>
<p>Does your list of categories go on and on, making it difficult to scroll to and find what you need?  This plugin will collapse groups of subcategories into expandable submenus, which you may open and close as needed, cutting your category list down to a manageable size.  Submenus with checked categories are not collapsed (but are collapsible), so you won’t have to hunt for them.</p>
<p>Thanks to scribu for the code from his Category Checklist Tree plugin, which prevents the breaking of the category list heirarchy.</p>
<p>This plugin works with post categories and WooCommerce product categories too.  According to users, it works with custom taxonomies!</p>
<p>Links: <a href="https://www.newvibewebdesign.com/collapsible-categories-in-admin-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin News</a> | <a href="http://newvibewebdesign.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author’s Site</a></p>


Collapsible Categories in the Dashboard

In the Dashboard, collapses sub categories into hidden submenus that can be expanded and collapsed.  Keeps selected categories visible.

AdminForge – Admin Management Toolkit vs Collapsible Categories in the Dashboard