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.

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Works perfectly

I absolutely can't stand the new 5.3 design... thank you SO much for giving me back the normal styling! :)

Thank you!

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