Tailor the WordPress Dashboard
Admin Menu Editor Pro is the paid edition of Admin Menu Editor for organizing and controlling the WordPress Dashboard. It lets you adjust how administrative menus appear, who can access them, and where custom links lead. This makes it useful for sites with multiple user roles, client-facing dashboards, or workflows that require a more focused administration area.
Use drag and drop to reorder menu items, move items between submenu levels, and place a menu item in a different submenu. You can change menu titles, URLs, icons, and CSS classes, hide or show menus, and create custom menus that point to any part of the Dashboard or to an external URL.
Role-based menu control
The Pro version adds per-role menu permissions, giving you more precise control than a single general menu configuration. You can set access by role, hide a menu from everyone except a specific user, and make menus open in a new window. These controls help present different administrative interfaces to different users.
A hidden menu is invisible to all users, including administrators. When a menu should remain available to a selected group, use access permissions or the Pro-specific visibility options rather than simply hiding it from everyone.
More than menu editing
Admin Menu Editor also includes tools for managing related administrative workflows. Create login redirects and logout redirects, allow or deny access to specific posts based on user roles, and hide plugins from other users on the Installed Plugins page.
For branded or client-oriented environments, you can edit the display name, description, and other plugin details shown on the Installed Plugins page. The plugin also provides utility shortcodes for use in posts, pages, or redirect-related setups.
- [ame-wp-admin] outputs the WordPress Dashboard URL with a trailing slash.
- [ame-home-url] outputs the site URL.
- [ame-user-info] can display supported logged-in user information, including an ID, login name, display name, locale, or user URL.
The user information shortcode supports an optional placeholder for visitors who are not logged in and encoding options for HTML, attributes, JavaScript, or no encoding. These options can help when the shortcode is used in custom HTML or JavaScript.
Useful workflows
- Create a simplified Dashboard for clients or specific user roles.
- Keep administrative menus in a logical order with drag-and-drop organization.
- Direct users to relevant Dashboard areas or external destinations.
- Restrict access to selected posts and administrative tools by role.
- Transfer an admin menu configuration using the Pro export feature.
Installation and configuration
Install and activate Admin Menu Editor Pro in WordPress, then open its settings to arrange menus, define permissions, and configure redirects or additional controls. Review each role’s resulting access before assigning the finished configuration.
If a default menu is deleted, it will reappear after saving by design. To remove it from view, hide it or change its access permissions. An administrator can reset the menu configuration through the documented reset URL if needed.
