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.
Download
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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You can already do that, actually – it’s just somewhat unintuitive. Set the “Required capability” of those menus to “manage_network” and they’ll be visible only to the super admin.
Note : This is not guaranteed to make the functionality of those plugins completely inaccessible for normal users. The plugins might have AJAX hooks, widgets and whatnot, and Admin Menu Editor can’t modify those. The only way to be completely safe is get the respective plugin authors to implement the security scheme you describe.
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Hi White shadow,
Great plugin exactly what i needed for a project, however i stupidly hid the settings and plugins menus doh!! and now i dont know how to revert to the default menu (because i hid the settings menu i cant access the admin editor settings) is there any way to manually revert to defaults?
cheers
Indeed there is. Just open http://example.com/wp-admin/?reset_admin_menu=1 in your browser (replace example.com with your blog’s address).
Hi Whiteshadow,
Cheers for the fast reply, I tried the fix as you suggested but it didnt seem to have any effect i neglected to mention the site is on a wordpress mu installation would this be the culprit?
thanks in advance
Are you logged in as the (super) admin? You need to have menu editing permissions for that URL to do anything.
yep im logged in as (super)admin, i cleared browser cache as well to no effect
Well, that’s… interesting. I have no idea why it doesn’t work.
Anyway, if you have direct access to the database, you can also reset the menu by deleting the “ws_menu_editor” option from the “wp_options” table.
Perfect!! that did the trick, thanks for the help!
Hi,
I was wondering if you could help me with this plugin. I am having some issues with it to get it working for different access levels.
I have an ‘Ad manager’ installed, which appears under ‘Settings’ main tab in the admin panel.
‘Admin’ has the rights to upload banners using this plugin and I want ‘editor’ to be able to do that too. I have tried changing the ‘Required capability’ to ‘7’, which is the access value for ‘Editor’ in WP database. But it doesnt seem to work.
Any ideas why? Any help will be much appreciated.
Due to the way menu permissions are handled by WordPress, it is not possible to make them less restrictive. Your best bet would be contacting the author of “Ad manager” and asking them to make the plugin’s settings accessible to editors.
Ok, I will try contacting the plugin’s author. Thanks.
having some issues with this plugin… running 3.0.1
…
no default menu comes up in the settings. nothing.
none of the buttons work or are clickable.
any known conflicts with this?
using Firefox.
No known conflicts with WP 3.0.1, but could be a conflict with another plugin. Anything in the browser’s error console?
Error: menuBox.sortable is not a function
Source File: http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/wp-content/plugins/admin-menu-editor/js/menu-editor.js?ver=1.0
Line: 422
In the FF error Console.
Try this and tell me what error message it displays now (you might want to take a screen-shot).
You can do this outside plugin usage..
Instead of using add_submenu_page(), etc..
Hook onto admin_menu, but instead globalise the $submenu / $menu vars and add the submenu items manually into the array, else WP won’t deal with the URL/Link correctly, since “all” menu items are prepended with the local site’s URL.
Post on the WP support forums (post in the hacks forum), and i’ll provide an example.
Last response was to anwer Tim who asked about linking menu items to offsite URLs, seems the reply to feature isn’t enabled here, and even replying (if you form the URL) does stack the response under the relevant comment (that’s why my comment seems out of place).
Hi
i have a problem
”
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /homez.348/boitebis/www/wp-content/plugins/admin-menu-editor/includes/menu-editor-core.php on line 18 ”
do u know why ?
thank u so much i really appreciate ur plugin ^^