WordPress Hide Admin Menu Plugin

WordPress Hide Admin Menu plugin helps you hide the admin menu and admin bar items in the WordPress admin area based on user role. Select the checkboxes corresponding to menu items and user roles and save. You’ll have a simplified menu for your clients, and users. That will help you hide essential menu items that you don’t want them to access, like the settings page, account detail page, etc.

This plugin has a friendly interface and is very easy to use. Everything is straightforward, and you can understand all its functionality within 5 minutes!

The WordPress Hide Admin Menu Plugin works perfectly with custom user roles and menu items added by other plugins, and it’s fully compatible with WordPress Multisite. It’s an ideal tool for any WordPress site looking to customize and secure the admin experience.

Documentation

WordPress Hide Admin Menu is helpful for all WordPress websites. Below is one small list to start using the “WordPress Hide Admin Menu” Plugin.

Ability to hide items in the admin menu and admin bar.
You can use customizable by user role, including administrator.
Easily simplify your menu items.

Easy installation and setup
No coding skill required
High-quality code
Auto-updated support

There are the following reasons that make the WordPress Hide Admin Menu Plugin Outstanding.

You can hide the items in the admin menu and admin bar.

2. Easily Simplified Your Menus

You can easily simplify your admin menu area based on user roles.

If you have multiple users on your website, you’ll sometimes need certain people to have specific permissions. It is the best way to do it for your particular user role.

Since version 2.1, you can:

Setup for the whole network (MultiSite mode) only ONCE. You don’t need to go to each blog admin page to set up the plugin anymore.
Auto-update supported.

Since version 2.0, you can:

Hide items in the admin bar.
Hide admin menu, admin bar items for Administrators. Now you can simplify menus for yourself!

Testimonials

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant! This is the plugin I have been after for some time. Many others like it, but not as simple and as good as this. Please, please, never stop supporting/updating this (promise). You just got 5 stars from me
ADH

I love this plugin. In 5 minutes I went from a mess to only showing the three options I want my client to touch. Well worth the money and 5 stars.
Ollie526

After spending countless hours trying to find a free plugin I came across your plug-in that killed all the other plugins. It does exactly what I wanted and is the best $9 I have ever spent, thanks for making such a great plugin
Romes22

Your plugin is awesome? it is simple to hide some unexpected. With Your plugin Hide admin menu and User-role-editor, I can do everything I want about the user role.
Jaa3864

Proudly made by the author of WordPress Meta Box Plugin.

Changelog

April 15th, 2025 (Version 3.0.10)

* Fixed: Admin bar not showing issue.
* Fixed: Plugin deletion issue.
* Latest WordPress 6.8 compatibility Check

November 27th, 2024 (Version 3.0.9)

* Updated: WordPress 6.7.1 Compatibility Updates.

Spetember 2nd, 2024 (Version 3.0.8)

* Updated: WordPress 6.6.1 Compatibility Updates.

Spetember 1st, 2023 (Version 3.0.7)

* Updated: WordPress 6.3 Compatibility Updates.
* Fixed: Disable Rating Notice.

April 10th, 2023 (Version 3.0.6)

* Updated: WordPress 6.2 Compatibility Updates.

November 11th, 2022 (Version 3.0.5)

* Updated: WordPress 6.1 Compatibility Updates.

August 29th, 2022 (Version 3.0.4)

* Updated: WordPress 6.0.1 Compatibility Updates.

February 25th, 2022 (Version 3.0.3)

* Updated: WordPress 5.9 Compatibility Updates.

November 26th, 2021 (Version 3.0.2)

* Updated: Latest WooCommerce 5.9 Compatibility Check

August 10th, 2021 (Version 3.0.1)

* Updated: WordPress 5.8 Compatibility Updates.

June 11th, 2021 (Version 3.0.0)

* Updated: WordPress 5.7 Compatibility Updates.

April 6th, 2021 (Version 2.1.10)

* Fixed: Minor Bug Fixes.

December 14th, 2020 (Version 2.1.9)

* Added WordPress 5.6 Support.

September 20th, 2016 (Version 2.1.8)

* Added: Better messages for User Experience Improvement.
* Updated: WordPress 5.0 Compatibility Update.

December 10th, 2015 (Version 2.1.7)

* Updated: WordPress 4.4 Compatibility Updates.

November 23rd, 2015 (Version 2.1.6)

* Updated: WordPress 4.3 Compatibility Test & Updates.

February 5th, 2015 (Version 2.1.5)

* Improvement: A better explanation for checkboxes.

January 4th, 2014 (Version 2.1.4)

* Fix: Compatible with Contact Form 7, Avada theme, and Gravity Forms.

October 25th, 2013 (Version 2.1.3)

* Improvement: Now hidden menus, and submenus are not accessible,e.g., when hiding menus, and submenus, users can't access them even though they know the correct URLs.

July 16th, 2013 (Version 2.1.2)

* Fix: Can hide menus, and submenus added with user level, not capability, like WordPress Mobile Pack plugin.

July 15th, 2013 (Version 2.1.1)

* Fix: Works with GravityForms now.

December 3rd, 2012 (Version 2.1)

* Improvement: Allow settings for network-wide.
* Improvement: Import/export settings for the network.
* Improvement: Auto-update.
* Improvement: Add the Vietnamese language.

September 2nd, 2012 (Version 2.0.1)

* Hide admin bar items in the front end.

August 26th, 2012 (Version 2.0)

* Allow hiding admin bar items.
* Optimize plugin file loading, thus increasing the website performance.
* Change text domain to string to make it work properly.
* Reformat code to a better coding standard, and improve code quality.
* Better and stronger OOP code.
* Highly improved UI and UX, easier to use.

June 27th, 2011 (Version 1.1)

* Improvement in code.
* Change methods to static.
* Change the way the plugin handles priorities.

June 14th, 2011 (Version 1.0)

* Initial Release.

Hide Admin Menu WordPress Plugin