Allows users to hide inline documentation and help text that are geared for beginning users in the WordPress admin.
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.
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
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 5.8.13 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Highlights:
This minor release adds DEVELOPER-DOCS.md, notes compatibility through WP 5.8+, reorganizes unit tests, and minor tweaks.
Details:
…and 14 more changes
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