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Bring Back Admin Menu Separators

Get back the menu separators in the new WordPress 3.8+ Admin Interface

By bej-soan·Menu·Free
5(2 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 12 years ago
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As of April 2026, Bring Back Admin Menu Separators is a WordPress menu plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Admin Menu Editor.

5/52 reviews
100active installs
2.8K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

This plugins just adds some CSS to make the admin menu separators visible again, since a lot of people are confused with no visual separation in the new WordPress Admin Design.

Works for all default color styles.

If you want to change the colors of the separators you can copy the php code from the plugin file and add it to your themes functions.php.

Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

52 reviews
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2 ★
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1 ★
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Compatibility

WordPress3.8+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41
PHPfalse+ required

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Contributors

bej-soanbej-soan
Plugin Info
Version
1.0
Last Updated
Jan 15, 2014
WP Requires
3.8+
Tested Up To
3.7.41
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
100
Downloads
2.8K+
Added
Jan 15, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

menuadminbackendseparatorswordpress 3.8

Developer

B
bej-soan
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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