Get back the menu separators in the new WordPress 3.8+ Admin Interface
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.
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.
| WordPress | 3.8+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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