Let your admin menu breathe.
As of April 2026, Wider Admin Menu is a WordPress admin menu plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 21 reviews. It has been downloaded 25K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.2+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Downloads are down 23% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Admin Menu Search.
Wider Admin Menu is a standalone plugin built, maintained & operated by the friendly folks over at MachoThemes.
Wider Admin Menu is a lightweight plugin that lets you set the width of your admin menu from the default 160px up to 300px.
A separate stylesheet is also included if you wish to avoid Yet Another Plugin. See FAQ.
This plugin will leave no trace! If you delete the plugin, all settings will be removed from the database. Guaranteed. However, simply deactivating it will leave your settings in place, as expected.
I did not realize that narrow Admin Menu is what makes me uncomfortable until I saw this plugin.
Installed it and it indeed does help.
This should be the default Admin left navigation width!
Brilliant plugin – I just wish that Gutenberg editor and others recognised this width, as they seem to be left-aligned to the original width, hiding an important part of their interfaces.
Maybe there’s another way to implement this? Or maybe an alternative would be knocking the font size down a couple of pixels but within the original width for less wrapped text, or maybe just change the way text wraps.
Nice try though, appreciate someone making the effort for the obvious issue that core has missed.
Tested this plugin and the admin area looks better right away.
Such a simple but effective improvement.
Never happened before in all those years like this with anything in WordPress.
Thank you so much.
An interesting plugin with a very interesting ability to customize the admin menu.
I haven’t seen such a fonction in WP plugins yet!!!
thanks
After installing, activating, then deactivating and uninstalling this plugin without changing it’s settings, the database increased by 0.1 MB! – although the developers wrote that after removing the plugin, nothing remains in the database.
| WordPress | 5.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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