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Admin Expert Mode

Allows users to hide inline documentation and help text that are geared for beginning users in the WordPress admin.

By Scott Reilly·Help·Free
5(1 reviews)
·20 active installs·Updated 4 years ago
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As of April 2026, Admin Expert Mode is a WordPress help plugin with 20 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Help.

5/51 reviews
20active installs
8.0K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009

Overview

WordPress has long provided inline documentation throughout the administrative interface that provide explanations for various features and input fields. This includes an explanations of excerpts, trackbacks, custom fields, page parents, etc. These are great for newcomers to WordPress, but for those with sufficient familiarity these bits of text are no longer necessary and merely provide visual noise. This plugin gets rid of those descriptive texts.

The plugin’s behavior is made available as a per-user profile option. Each user who wishes to enable expert mode for themselves must do so individually by going into their profile, checking the field ‘Expert mode’, and then pressing the ‘Update Profile’ button.

Specifically, this plugin removes:

  • Dashboard

    • Descr…
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

51 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress2.8+ requiredTested up to 5.8.13
PHPfalse+ required

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Changelog

2.9 (2021-11-16)

Highlights:

This minor release adds DEVELOPER-DOCS.md, notes compatibility through WP 5.8+, reorganizes unit tests, and minor tweaks.

Details:

  • New: Add DEVELOPER-DOCS.md and move hooks documentation into it
  • Change: Add newlines after output block tags and remove newline after label tag
  • Change: Add translator comments to explain placeholders
  • Change: Use stricter equality check in a conditional statement
  • Change: Tweak inline function documentation (typo, verb tenses, bullet list syntax)

…and 14 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Scott ReillyScott Reilly
Plugin Info
Version
2.9
Last Updated
Nov 19, 2021
WP Requires
2.8+
Tested Up To
5.8.13
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
20
Downloads
8.0K+
Added
Jun 15, 2009
Business
Free

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