Tony Hayes

AdminSanity brings sanity through sanitization to your WordPress Admin Area. Cleanly.
AdminSanity started as a Gist to address the WordPress Admin Menu clutter, automatically splitting and re-ordered menu to clean up the mess that appears as more and more plugins are added to a WordPress site. This idea was inspired by <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47012" rel="nofollow ugc">this TRAC proposal for a “Simplified WordPress Admin Navigation”</a>, as a proof of concept for a potential core Feature plugin.
Now, it includes modules not just for cleaning up and improving accesss to both the Admin Menu and Admin Bar, but also includes a module for turning Admin Notice clutter at the top of your admin screen into an tabbed notice type display interface! This means a sigh of relief guaranteed, or your money back! (Actually nevermind – it’s free – just like your Admin Area soon will be free of clutter!)
Oh and plus did I mention it supports responsive width changes and admin colour schemes?! 😀
<h4>AdminSanity Menu</h4>
The AdminSanity Menu module automatically sorts the Admin Menu into three sections:
<ul>
<li>Content – Dashboard, all Post Types | Media, Links and Comments</li>
<li>Manage – Settings, [Plugin Settings], Appearance, Plugins, Users, Tools</li>
<li>Extensions – any other extra top level menu items not present by default</li>
</ul>
And, to add an extra layer of navigation accessibility, a meta-menu level has been added to each of the Admin Menu sections, with the corresponding labels: Content, Manage and Extensions. So that rather than trying to replace the existing Admin Menu design (which would be hard to make backwards compatible), it is just adapted to provide improved menu access.
Additionally, a new “Plugin Settings” menu item has been added, with any Settings submenu items moved there that are not there by default (ie. from WordPress itself.) This greatly improves the ease of navigation in your admin area when searching for either Core or Plugin settings.
Then, for even faster ease of access, an “Expand menu” icon has been added at the top of the Admin Menu (to complement the existing “Collapse menu” icon at the bottom) which expands to provide a full page three column display of the entire Admin Menu with all submenus expanded so you can instantly see every menu at once. Wow!
<h4>AdminSanity Notices</h4>
The AdminSanity Notice module attempts to solve probably the most long-standing thorn in any WordPress user’s side – the distracting amount of NOTICES at the top of every single Admin page! By providing a tabbed interface for notice types (Error, Update, Warnings, Messages, Notices), you get a colour-coded and at-a-glance display of how many notices of each type there are, so you can prioritize and stay on task.
Clicking on any of the notice types instantly displays all the notices for that type. Nice! And as an added bonus, if you want to access Notices by their user notice level, you can do that too. Clicking on the Notices label reveals an extra tab menu that is sorted by notice type instead: All, General, Network, Admin and User. Neat!
<h4>AdminSanity Bar</h4>
After experiencing the Admin Bar getting cluttered also and splitting itself into two lines (and thus making some of the bar items unclickable!) I decided to add some responsive height handling to fix the bar display when this happened. And also, add a new “Shuffle” Cycler icon to the start of the Admin Bar, which cycles the visibility of the different Admin Bar items. Each click of the icon will cycle through three display options, giving you faster access to what you were looking for:
<ul>
<li>All Bar menu items (Default Admin Bar view)</li>
<li>Default Bar menu items (added by WordPress)</li>
<li>Non-default Bar menu items (from plugins and themes)</li>
</ul>
And again, similar to the Admin Menu, for faster ease of access to all Admin Bar items at once, a “Dropdown” toggle item is added at the end of the Admin Bar, providing an expanded view of all bar menu items and their submenus (including nested submenus which are accessible via dropdown arrows for those submenu items.) Nifty!
<h4>Come Get Some Admin Sanity!</h4>
Isn’t it time for AdminSanity to bring some sanity back to your Admin Area?!

AdminSanity

AdminSanity brings sanity through sanitization to your WordPress Admin Area. Cleanly.

MD ISMAIL

Abdur Rahman Emon

<h4>Take Control of Your Dashboard with Notice Vault</h4>
Is your WordPress dashboard cluttered with constant plugin alerts, theme warnings, and update notices? Notice Vault captures every admin notice as it fires and moves it into a tidy popup, so you can keep working without the visual noise — and read everything later at your convenience.
WordPress admin notices can be helpful, but they often become overwhelming, taking up valuable screen real estate and disrupting your workflow. Notice Vault gives you per-type rules and a single counter in the admin bar so nothing is ever missed.
<h4>Why Choose Notice Vault?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Declutter Your Workspace: Move noisy admin notices out of the dashboard and into a dedicated popup.</li>
<li>Improve Productivity: Focus on your content instead of closing endless alert boxes.</li>
<li>Granular Control: Configure every notice category separately — popup, hide, or leave alone.</li>
<li>Lightweight & Fast: Admin-only by design. Zero overhead on the front end.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Capture & Centralize: Admin notices fired through <code>admin_notices</code>, <code>network_admin_notices</code>, <code>user_admin_notices</code>, and <code>all_admin_notices</code> are captured into a single popup.</li>
<li>Per-Type Rules: Configure each of the six notice categories (success, error, warning, info, system, non-standard) to either show in the popup or leave on the dashboard as usual.</li>
<li>Admin Bar Counter: A “Notices” item appears in the WordPress admin bar with a live unread counter and a quick preview of your most recent notices.</li>
<li>Three Popup Styles: Pick between Slide from Right (default), Modal Popup (centered), or Slide Background Panel.</li>
<li>Mark as Read & Dismiss: Mark notices read individually or in bulk, or dismiss them entirely. Read state is per-user, so each admin keeps their own view.</li>
<li>Auto-Expire: Notices older than a configurable number of days (default 30, range 1–365) are removed automatically by a daily cron job.</li>
<li>Privacy-First: All notices are stored locally in your WordPress database. No external services, no tracking, no phone-home.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Experience a Distraction-Free WordPress Workflow</h4>
Whether you are managing multiple sites or a blogger tired of constant upselling, Notice Vault helps you maintain a professional, organized, and distraction-free environment.
Stop the clutter and start focusing on what matters: Your Website.
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
Notice Vault does not:
<ul>
<li>Collect any user data</li>
<li>Send data to external servers</li>
<li>Use cookies or tracking</li>
<li>Store personal information</li>
</ul>
All notices are stored locally in your WordPress database and are automatically deleted after the configured expiration period.
<h4>About</h4>
Notice Vault is developed and maintained by Abdur Rahman Emon and Md. Ismail. Source code, issue tracking, and contributions are welcome on the project’s GitHub repository.

Notice Vault


Nice plugin that catches all the notices. The only thing to complain about is, that the dismiss function for some of the notifications do not work anymore, since JS and styles are stripped from the original message.


Great plugin that cleans up the dashboard

Control your WordPress dashboard with Notice Vault - hide, manage, and organize admin alerts for a clean, distraction-free site.

AdminSanity vs Notice Vault