Admin Menu Editor
Lets you edit the WordPress admin menu. You can re-order, hide or rename menus, add custom menus and more.
4.6(311 reviews)
·400K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Admin Menu Editor is a WordPress menu plugin with 400K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 311 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.8M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 60%. Top alternative: Max Mega Menu.
4.6/5311 reviews
400K+active installs
60%resolved
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
Admin Menu Editor lets you manually edit the Dashboard menu. You can reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change permissions, and more.
Features
- Change menu titles, URLs, icons, CSS classes and so on.
- Organize menu items via drag & drop.
- Change menu permissions by setting the required capability or role.
- Move a menu item to a different submenu.
- Create custom menus that point to any part of the Dashboard or an external URL.
- Hide/show any menu or menu item. A hidden menu is invisible to all users, including administrators.
The Pro version lets you set per-role menu permissions, hide a menu from everyone except a specific user, export your admin menu, drag items between menu levels, make menus open in a new window and more. Try online demo.
Additional Features
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Ratings & Reviews
4.6311 reviews
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Recent Reviews
We swear by this plugin, installed on all our sites!
by Erupt Media·1 month ago
Not sure how we can manage without this plugin. It keeps our structure organized, categorized and most importantly easy to find. Highly recommend, I’ve tried a few and stuck with this one overall.
Separator with title
by moloko74·1 month ago
Great plugin, it just lacked an option to organize groups with a titled separator.
Helpfull Plugin
by Ralf R.·1 month ago
I was always annoyed by the huge number of menu entries created by all the installed plugins. With Admin Menu I was finally able to clean things up and organize everything in a meaningful way. It took me a moment to understand how the features work, but after that everything was really easy.
The best dashboard menu editor !!
by mister pc·1 month ago
Of all the similar plugins I’ve tested, this one is from far the best : intuitive, fluid and drag’n’drop oriented use.
I also met a minor issue with corrupted configuration data (more related to the DB that the plugin) and Janis brought me some advice very quickly, so that I’ve been able to identify the problem and find a solution even more quickly 😀
This was also the occasion for me to notice the full robustness of the plugin for a usage on live environments.
GREAT !!!
Works well, well supported too
by fdittmar·2 months ago
Janis is very quick to help if needed. ‘Menus’ work well.
Download Trends
Today: 2KYesterday: 2KThis week: 15KPeriod total: 1.1M
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.15
35.6%
v1.14
19.2%
v1.12
17.1%
Other
13.1%
v1.9
7.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.15
- Increased the minimum required PHP version to 7.4.
- Increased the minimum required WordPress version to 5.9.
- Fixed the “admin_menu_editor-menu_url_blacklist” filter being called too early, before most other plugins have been loaded. Now other plugins should be able to actually use this filter to modify the menu blacklist.
- Fixed some users showing as “missing” in the “Redirects” tab when the site has more than 50 users.
- Added a workaround for a bug in ActivityPub 7.8.5 that could cause a PHP fatal error by returning an invalid value from the “user_has_cap” filter.
…and 7 more changes
Contributors
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