Admin Menu Editor For WordPress

Here is my latest and hack-iest plugin yet – Admin Menu Editor. It’s a WordPress plugin that will let you manually edit the Dashboard menu. You can reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change access rights, and more. The plugin is still a bit rough around the edges, so a good understading of WP internals is recommended (but not required).

Features

  • Sort menu items any way you want by simple drag & drop.
  • Move a menu item to a different submenu via cut & paste. Note that if you move an item that belongs to a plugin, you will need to modify the “File” attribute to point to the right parent file (e.g. instead of “akismet-key-config” use “options-general.php?page=akismet-key-config”).
  • Edit any existing menu – change the title, access rights, menu icon and so on. Note that you can’t lower the required access rights, but you can change them to be more restrictive.
  • Hide/show any menu or menu item. A hidden menu is invisible to all users, including administrators.
  • Create custom menus that point to any part of the Dashboard. For example, you could create a new menu leading directly to the “Pending comments” page.

Here’s a screenshot :

Admin Menu Editor screenshot

Download

admin-menu-editor.zip (33 KB)

Requirements :

  • WordPress 2.7 or later
  • PHP 5 or later

Known Issues

The basic idea for the plugin was suggested by several commenters way back in October. However, the internal menu system that WordPress uses is obscure and unsuitable for direct manipulation, so I spent quite a while inventing workarounds. And even after a few weeks of pondering, there are some things I haven’t quite fixed.

  • If you delete any of the default menus they will reappear after saving. This is not a bug, it’s a feature ;)
  • As I mentioned before, the access rights required for using a particular menu item can’t be lowered, but can be made more strict. I think.
  • Also, a plugin’s menu that is moved to a different submenu will not work unless you also include the parent file in the “File” field. This is because WP “ties” the menu item to it’s parent menu and won’t recognize it in a different submenu.
  • If you create a custom menu (or change the “File” setting of an existing menu), be sure to tick the “Custom” checkbox. Otherwise that item will not show up in the final Dashboard menu.

Merry Christmas, by the way :)

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This entry was posted on Saturday, December 20th, 2008 at 21:36 and is filed under Applications, Blogging. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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    Jeffro2pt0 says:
    December 23, 2008 at 12:09

    Wanted to let you know that the plugin author URL links back to http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/12/20/admin-menu-edi%EF%BF%BD-for-wordpress/ which doesn’t exist. Also, I think it would be cool if you provided 1-3 options of sorting menus. For instance, I’d simply like the menu to be rearranged in alphabetical order. Other than that, I’m having fun dragging and dropping.

  3. 3
    List Of Plugins I Use Second Edition : Jeffro2pt0 says:
    December 23, 2008 at 12:52

    [...] Admin Menu Editor – Lets you directly edit the WordPress admin menu. You can re-order, hide or rename existing menus, add custom menus and more. Beta. By Janis Elsts. [...]

  4. 4
    links for 2008-12-23 | Conteúdo Interativo says:
    December 23, 2008 at 13:01

    [...] Administração do Menu e Dashboard do Wordpress (tags: menu dashboard wordpress CMS PLUGINS admin wpmu) [...]

  5. 5
    White Shadow says:
    December 23, 2008 at 13:08

    Fixed. I thought about adding sort buttons, but decided to leave them out in the first release. So it’s probable I’ll add this feature eventually.

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    Vilka tillägg används på Eyesx.com | Eyesx says:
    December 25, 2008 at 04:13

    [...] att passa in på eyesx.com. Klicka på “Läs mer” för att se hela listan av tillägg. Admin Menu Editor – Ett meny tillägg för att arrangera ordningen av de nya menyn i 2.7. Av Janis [...]

  7. 7
    ts says:
    December 25, 2008 at 08:05

    Hi, I’m getting a syntax error when I’m trying to activate the plugin

    “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /var/www/…/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/menu-editor/menu-editor.php on line 26″

  8. 8
    White Shadow says:
    December 25, 2008 at 13:56

    You probably have an old version of PHP. This plugin requires PHP 5 or later.

  9. 9
    bambi says:
    December 26, 2008 at 10:54

    hi!
    many thanks for this plugin.
    unfortunately i get a fatal error while activating this plugin:
    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Services_JSON in /var/www/stpa/wp-content/plugins/menu-editor/JSON.php on line 116

  10. 10
    White Shadow says:
    December 26, 2008 at 14:20

    Should be fixed now. Download again from the same link.

  11. 11
    WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/21 says:
    December 27, 2008 at 01:01

    [...] Admin Menu Editor [...]

  12. 12
    bambi says:
    December 27, 2008 at 11:04

    it works now! many thanks!

  14. 14
    Dorian says:
    January 1, 2009 at 22:42

    Could this plug-in be extended to hide menus on the post page such as:

    Tags
    Categories
    Excerpt
    Send Trackbacks
    Custom Fields
    Discussion
    Post Arthur

    An example would be greatly appreciated!

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