Admin Menu Manager Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

At required we strive to create a great user experience. We thought about how to improve the WordPress admin and came to the conclusion that we need a better way to manage the core of the WordPress back-end: the admin menu.

This is our take on a simple, lightweight and unobtrusive WordPress admin menu manager. It works like a charm, doesn’t get in your way and doesn’t even require yet another settings page. So if you want a custom tailored admin menu for you or your clients, this plugin is perfect.

Pro tip: Admin Menu Manager works perfectly to get Jetpack out of the way.

You can drag menu items anywhere you want, even from the top level to a sub menu item and vice-versa. Isn’t that awesome?!

Demo

Check out this quick demo video of the plugin in action.

Contribute

If you would like to contribute to this plugin, report an issue or anything like that, please note that we develop this plugin on GitHub. Please submit pull requests to the develop branch.

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Installation

Upload the entire /admin-menu-manager directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate Admin Menu Manager through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Use the “Edit Menu” button to modify the WordPress admin menu.
Instantly love it.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the state of version 2.0?

Work was done on a major rewrite of the plugin to include many more features like

Completely remove (and restore) menu items
Edit existing menu items and their icons
Add custom items to the admin menu

An alpha version was released back in 2017. Right now, work has stalled due to lack of time and resources. If you want to help out, please get in touch with us!

Review feed

swinggraphics

11/21/2017

Totally awesome

Needs ability to add items, and then it'd be perfect!

danieltj

5/31/2018

Good but quirky

The plugin still works well on 4.9.x and is really simple and useful so a big fan, the only issue I had with it was in some cases it seems to create a new sub menu item that doesn't lead anywhere. It's a bit of a shame but other than that I really like it.

pedjas

7/14/2023

Nice

Allows simple rearranging items in Admin menu. Exactly what I needed. now I have more logical order.

Screenshots

The plugin adds an unobtrusive edit button to the admin menu
Drag menu items and separators anywhere you want — even from sub menus to the top level and vice-versa!

Changelog

1.0.3 (2015-05-06)

Fixed: Localized menu items were displayed in English under some conditions.

1.0.2 (2015-05-04)

Fixed: Localized sub menu items didn’t work properly due do wrongly translated strings.

1.0.1 (2015-4-27)

Fix JS URL that made the plugin un-usable

1.0.0 (2015-4-27)

First release

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