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Adds beautiful icons to your WordPress menu items. More menu item options are coming soon!

Dan Knauss

Maestro is an inline admin menu editor. Instead of a separate settings 
screen, it turns the WordPress admin menu into something you edit in place — 
right where it lives. Toggle Edit Menu from the admin bar and the menu 
becomes editable: click a label to rename it, drag rows to reorder, swap a 
top-level icon, or hide items from chosen roles.
Try it first. Launch a throwaway demo in 
<a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dknauss/Maestro/main/playground/blueprint-hosted.json" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Playground</a> 
— it boots a site with Maestro active, User Switching, and test users (editor, 
author, contributor, subscriber; password <code>password</code>) so you can try per-role 
visibility by switching users before you install anything.
<h4>What you can do</h4>
<ul>
<li>Rename any top-level or submenu item — just click the label.</li>
<li>Reorder items by dragging (top-level items among themselves, submenu items 
within their parent), or with the keyboard (<code>Alt</code>+<code>Arrow</code>).</li>
<li>Swap icons on top-level items. The picker offers dashicons and bundled 
Bootstrap Icons with search, and accepts any of WordPress’s four native icon 
forms (dashicon, “none”, base64 image data-URI, or an image URL).</li>
<li>Hide items from chosen roles — including administrators. Custom roles 
registered by other plugins 
(<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/" rel="ugc">User Role Editor</a>, 
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/" rel="ugc">Members</a>, etc.) appear automatically.</li>
<li>Reset a single item to its WordPress default, or reset everything at once.</li>
</ul>
Changes are global — one configuration applies to everyone — and are stored 
as a sparse delta layered over the menu WordPress builds on each load. Nothing 
is rebuilt or duplicated, so a reset simply removes the delta and the original 
menu returns.
<h4>Important: visibility is cosmetic, not access control</h4>
Hiding a menu item only declutters the menu. The underlying admin page still 
loads for anyone who knows or types its URL, because a page’s own registered 
capability is the true lock. Maestro operates on the menu (presentation), 
which is a different plane from authorization.
If you need to actually prevent access, pair Maestro with a capability manager:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/" rel="ugc">User Role Editor</a> — the 
simplest way to edit what a role can do.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/capability-manager-enhanced/" rel="ugc">PublishPress Capabilities</a> — 
menu-aware; its Pro tier can block admin pages by URL.</li>
</ul>
The <code>maestro_capability</code> filter lets such a plugin hand editing rights to a 
custom capability instead of the default <code>manage_options</code>.
<h4>Accessibility and localization</h4>
The editor is keyboard-operable end to end — select with <code>Enter</code>/<code>Space</code>, 
reorder with <code>Alt</code>+<code>Arrow</code>, and every move and save is announced to screen 
readers. Modified items carry a non-color indicator with screen-reader text, so 
state never depends on color alone.
Maestro uses the <code>maestro-menu-editor</code> text domain and ships a translation 
template plus starter language packs for Spanish (<code>es_ES</code>), German (<code>de_DE</code>), 
Japanese (<code>ja</code>), French (<code>fr_FR</code>), Portuguese – Brazil (<code>pt_BR</code>), and Italian 
(<code>it_IT</code>). WordPress.org language packs override and extend these; native-speaker 
and WordPress Polyglots review is welcome.
<h3>Architecture (for developers)</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>Config</code> — reads/writes/sanitizes a single option (<code>maestro_config</code>) holding only 
the deltas. Reset = delete the option; the natural menu returns automatically.</li>
<li><code>Replay</code> — on a late <code>admin_menu</code> pass, applies rename/icon/visibility to the 
 $menu/<code>$submenu</code> globals and reorders submenus. Top-level order uses the 
core <code>custom_menu_order</code> + <code>menu_order</code> filters. Resilient to missing slugs 
(orphans are skipped) and new items (appended at the end).</li>
<li><code>Rest</code> — <code>maestro/v1/config</code> (GET/POST/DELETE), capability-gated, <code>X-WP-Nonce</code>.</li>
<li>The editor JS is driven by a localized model (with DOM ids), not DOM scraping, 
and diffs against captured pristine defaults so the stored config stays sparse.</li>
<li>Localized editor labels are passed from PHP to JavaScript in <code>maestroData.i18n</code>; 
the runtime zip includes the bundled POT template and starter catalogs.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known limits / deferred to v2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Reparenting (moving an item between a top-level position and a submenu) is 
not included. Top-level items reorder among top-level items and submenu items 
reorder within their current parent. Reparenting needs hand-splicing of the 
globals plus <code>parent_file</code>/<code>submenu_file</code> highlighting fixes — a known 
minefield, parked deliberately.</li>
<li>Separators are preserved in place but not yet add/move/delete-able; their 
generated slugs (<code>separator1</code>…) have no stable identity to key against.</li>
<li>Renaming an item drops any core-appended count badge (e.g. pending 
comments) from that label, since the badge lives inside the title string.</li>
<li>Submenu sort relies on items registering by the late <code>admin_menu</code> pass; a 
plugin that registers submenus on an unusually late hook may not be captured.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
Bundled <a href="https://icons.getbootstrap.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bootstrap Icons</a> are © The Bootstrap 
Authors, licensed under the MIT License. They are recoloured to the WordPress 
menu grey and embedded as data-URIs; see <code>bin/generate-bootstrap-icons.mjs</code>.
<h3>Support This Plugin</h3>
If Maestro saves you time, you can support its ongoing maintenance through 
<a href="https://github.com/sponsors/dknauss" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Sponsors</a>.

Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor

Rename, reorder, re-icon, and hide WordPress admin menu items per role — an inline admin menu editor you drive right on the menu itself.

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