Admin Menu Editor For WordPress
Admin Menu Editor is 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.
Features
- Sort menu items any way you want by simple drag & drop.
- Move a menu item to a different submenu via cut & paste.
- Edit any existing menu – change the title, access rights, menu icon and so on. Note that in the free version you can’t relax menu permissions – i.e. give access rights to a role that originally didn’t have them – 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 :
This plugin also has a Pro version that offers a bunch of extra features.
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The latest version of the plugin is always available on WordPress.org.
Requirements :
- WordPress 4.1 or later
- PHP 5.2 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. This has been fixed in the Pro version.
- Plugin menus that are moved to a different submenu will not work unless you put the full page URL in the “URL” field. This is because WP “ties” the menu item to it’s parent menu and won’t recognize it in a different submenu.
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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.
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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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”
You probably have an old version of PHP. This plugin requires PHP 5 or later.
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
Should be fixed now. Download again from the same link.
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it works now! many thanks!
Could this plug-in be extended to hide menus on the post page such as:
Tags
Categories
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An example would be greatly appreciated!
Nevermind, found this great plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cms-post-control/
THANKS!
@Dorian – That type of functionality is provided by WordPress 2.7 as part of the major UI changes/redesign they did. Sounds like you are not using WordPress 2.7 which I highly encourage you to do so.
I have installed the plugin and get the buttons at the top, however I am not getting any of the menu items below. I did not see any readme file, so I am assuming its as easy as uploading and activating. Any ideas?
That’s probably some kind of JavaScript error. I’ll need to know the error message to find the exact problem.
Various browsers have different ways to view JS error messages. AFAIK, Firefox has multiple addons that will let you do that (Firebug, Web Developer, etc). In Opera, it’s Tools -> Advanced -> Error Console. As for IE… I think there’s a little “error” icon in the lower-left corner of the status bar that you can double-click to show the last error message.
Hi.
Great Plugin! One question though – is it possible to change the level of menus? I try to move “posts” into “pages” (just as a couple of custom post types created by flutter) and that doesn’t seem to work. If it’s not currently possible, that would be really useful (hopefully not just for me, but for everyone using WP as a CMS).
Thanks again!
@Tobias : You can’t directly change the level – make a top menu a submenu or vice versa – but you could create a new custom (sub)menu that has the same properties as the menu you would like to move.
I’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to do there, but if you want to move some submenus to a different toplevel menu (e.g. move “Add New [Post]” to the “Pages” menu), you can do that via cut & paste.
This plugin is the magic bullet if you are trying to setup WordPress as a CMS with limited admin views for your clients!!! Use this plug-in. It works great!
This is the best plugin for WP, period. Elegant execution, and amazingly powerful.
One question: how can I hack this bad boy to have the menu links to point to root admin pages when inside a sub-blog on a WordPress Multi User (WPMU) install?
I’ll explain what I mean.
Let’s say I’m the admin of a WPMU install, and I decide to edit or write a post on a sub-blog. Well, in doing I so I actually enter the sub-blog’s admin section. This means that all the menu URL’s are based on the sub-blog that I’m now inside of.
So instead of: wp/wp-admin/edit.php
the menu links are wp/subblog/wp-admin/edit.php
What can I do inside the plugin to have the urls in the custom menu point to the root admin?
FWIW, no users will have access to admin whatsoever. One admin, and the sub-blogs are for readers only.
Hmm, I don’t have a WPMU install to test this, but have you tried starting the link with a slash?
For example, if the your full root URL is “http://domain.com/wp/wp-admin/edit.php”, enter “/wp/wp-admin/edit.php”. This seems to work on my single-user testblog.
WUNDERBAR!
This works perfectly. So for anyone who cares:
If using WPMU and you want the menu links for admin to be based on the root installation, even when you have clicked-down into a sub-blog’s admin, adding a slash and the folder name of your install (for example: /wp/) will get er done.
This is important if you;re using WPMU as a CMS, with only one admin presiding over all the sub-blogs (like one might do with a membership/subscription site).
There’s still some buggy behaviour wither certain menu items, and in order for it to work, you need to edit the menu BEFORE you create sub-blogs, but it’s regardless, it’s worth a shot.
White Shadow for president.