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.

Sergey Kruglov

ZenNotice Warden puts you in control of your WordPress dashboard. Tired of endless plugin notices, update reminders, and system messages cluttering your admin area? This plugin lets you hide any notice with one click — or set up automatic rules to block them forever.
Unlike plugins that blindly hide all notices, ZenNotice Warden gives you individual control. Each notice gets a block button. Click it → it’s gone. Still want it back? Unblock it anytime from the settings page.
<h4>How it works</h4>
The plugin intercepts all output from <code>admin_notices</code> and <code>network_admin_notices</code> hooks and adds a block button to each notice. Once clicked, the notice disappears and won’t be shown again for the current site.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>One-click blocking — a × button appears on every notice</li>
<li>Regex auto-blocking — notices matching your custom patterns are hidden automatically (e.g. <code>/update available/i</code> to hide all update notifications)</li>
<li>Full management UI at Settings → ZenNotice Warden</li>
<li>View blocked notices with content preview — see what you’ve hidden</li>
<li>Unblock anytime with a single click</li>
<li>Supports <code>notice</code>, <code>updated</code>, <code>error</code>, and <code>update-nag</code> types</li>
<li>Compatible with multisite (<code>network_admin_notices</code>)</li>
<li>Clean uninstall — removes all data on deactivation</li>
<li>Translation-ready — Русский, English, and more</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who is this for?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Site owners overwhelmed by plugin notifications</li>
<li>Developers testing plugins who don’t want repeated notices</li>
<li>Anyone who wants a clean, distraction-free admin area</li>
</ul>
<h3>Описание на русском</h3>
ZenNotice Warden — это полный контроль над уведомлениями в админке WordPress. Устали от бесконечных сообщений от плагинов, напоминаний об обновлениях и системных уведомлений? Этот плагин позволяет скрыть любое уведомление одним кликом — или настроить автоматические правила для их блокировки.
В отличие от плагинов, которые тупо скрывают все уведомления разом, ZenNotice Warden даёт выборочный контроль. На каждом уведомлении появляется кнопка блокировки. Нажал — исчезло. Передумал? Верни его в любой момент на странице настроек.
Возможности: 
– Блокировка любых уведомлений одним кликом 
– Regex-фильтры — автоматическое скрытие по тексту (например, <code>/обновление/i</code>) 
– Страница управления всеми заблокированными уведомлениями 
– Просмотр содержимого заблокированных уведомлений 
– Полная поддержка русского языка 
– Работает на мультисайтах 
– Чистое удаление — не оставляет мусора в базе данных

ZenNotice Warden

Hide annoying WordPress admin notices. Block, disable, or auto-hide plugin and system notices. AJAX-powered with regex filters.

AdminSanity vs ZenNotice Warden