Aaron Edwards

Plugin management for WordPress Multisite that supports the native plugins page and the WPMU DEV Pro Sites plugin! Used on thousands of multisite installs across the web. 
Previously known as WPMU Plugin Manager, it uses a backend options page to adjust plugin permissions for all the sites in your network.
<ul>
<li>Select what plugins sites have access to</li>
<li>Choose plugins to Auto-Activate for all new blogs</li>
<li>Mass activate/deactivate a plugin on all sites in your network (Very Handy!)</li>
<li>Assign special plugin access permissions for specific sites in your network</li>
<li>And as Super Admin, you can override all these to activate specific plugins on the sites you choose!</li>
<li>Removes the plugin meta row links (Version, Author, Plugin) and any update messages for blog admins</li>
</ul>
Also, if you use the excellent <a href="https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/pro-sites/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Sites plugin from WPMU DEV</a> you will be able to charge for access to certain plugins!
A free plugin by Aaron Edwards of <a href="http://uglyrobot.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">UglyRobot Web Development</a>.
<a href="https://github.com/uglyrobot/multisite-plugin-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">Contribute on GitHub</a>

Multisite Plugin Manager

I haven't had any issues with the functionality of the plugin, but the interface for granting plugin access to individual sites really needs improvement. Right now it's shoved under the "Settings" tab when editing an individual site, but when a site has a lot of options, this can make the page HUGE. The list of plugins should really be in its own "Plugins" tab, much like "Themes".

Plugin works well but interface needs improvement

This plugin helped me a lot when I had to reactivate one plugin on over 100 sites because accidentally I have activated it for the whole Network previously.

Good job!
Air.

Nice help for multisite

The essential plugin for every multisite install! Manage plugin access permissions across your entire multisite network.

Janis Elsts

Admin Menu Editor lets you manually edit the Dashboard menu. You can reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change permissions, and more.
Features
<ul>
<li>Change menu titles, URLs, icons, CSS classes and so on.</li>
<li>Organize menu items via drag & drop.</li>
<li>Change menu permissions by setting the required capability or role.</li>
<li>Move a menu item to a different submenu. </li>
<li>Create custom menus that point to any part of the Dashboard or an external URL.</li>
<li>Hide/show any menu or menu item. A hidden menu is invisible to all users, including administrators.</li>
</ul>
The <a href="http://w-shadow.com/AdminMenuEditor/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro version</a> 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. <a href="http://amedemo.com/wpdemo/demo.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Try online demo</a>.
Additional Features
Despite the name, this plugin is not limited to just editing the admin menu. You can also:
<ul>
<li>Create login redirects and logout redirects.</li>
<li>Allow/deny access to specific posts based on user roles.</li>
<li>Hide plugins on the Plugins -> Installed Plugins page from other users.</li>
<li>Edit the display name, description, and other plugin details shown on the Plugins -> Installed Plugins page (e.g. for white-labelling).</li>
</ul>
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.
<ul>
<li><code>[ame-wp-admin]</code> – URL of the WordPress dashboard (with a trailing slash).</li>
<li><code>[ame-home-url]</code> – Site URL. Usually, this is the same as the URL in the “Site Address” field in Settings -> General.</li>
<li><code>[ame-user-info field="..."]</code> – Information about the logged-in user. Parameters:
<ul>
<li><code>field</code> – The part of user profile to display. Supported fields include: <code>ID</code>, <code>user_login</code>, <code>display_name</code>, <code>locale</code>, <code>user_nicename</code>, <code>user_url</code>, and so on.</li>
<li><code>placeholder</code> – Optional. Text that will be shown if the visitor is not logged in.</li>
<li><code>encoding</code> – 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: <code>auto</code> (default), <code>html</code>, <code>attr</code>, <code>js</code>, <code>none</code>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Notes
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>

Admin Menu Editor

Does just what it says it does. Instantly.

Perfect

I've been a user of Admin Menu Editor and the Pro version for a while now. WordPress backend can get a little messy very easily, so this plugin comes to the rescue, and it does it well.

I wish all the features were free, but the devs need to pay the bills as well :-)

Best option


It allows you to move existing items on the left side menu around and change their icons.


Not Bad, simple to use


Essential for taming the admin menu, due to all the stupid ideas other developers have for their menus!


Essential

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

Multisite Plugin Manager vs Admin Menu Editor