WordPress Admin Menu Editor: Drag, Drop & Customize in Minutes

Q: Can I edit the WordPress admin menu without a plugin?

Yes — remove_menu_page() and add_menu_page() in a small custom plugin will reorder and hide menus. That's fine for one or two changes, but you're back in the code every time a plugin adds a menu item. Here's the custom admin menu walkthrough if you'd rather do it by hand.

Remove unwanted Menu items and stay organized

This features lets you to move forward on your WordPress Dashboard customization journey. Our Admin Menu Editor can help you to hide existing items for specific user or user role. You can customize the style including color, typography, font size and much more. For the first time, we have introduced the Horizontal Admin menu in WordPress Dashboard.

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What does the Admin Menu Editor offer?

We strongly condemn the fact that you will love the modern UI of our plugin option panel. We have tried to cover limitless features within this Admin Menu editor feature. Explore the following key points and you will find it useful for your daily use case.

Create Custom Admin Menu

You can create a custom admin menu and insert tem text, url, define icon, and much more.It works for both primary menu and submenu items. We also have custom Admin page feature which will help you to design a perfect admin page with any page builder.

Add an internal or any external link as a custom admin menu

Open links in the same window or a new window

It supports any existing menu items too

Create Custom Admin Pages →

Drag and Drop Menu items

You can drag and drop main menu or submenu items without any hassle. This can help you to organize your different menu items in one group. EX: You can sort all your SEO related menu items in a group.

Sort main menu items or submenu items

Any 3rd party theme and plugin supports

Drag and Drop Admin Menu →

Hide for a specific user role

That’s one of the most popular features of our Admin Menu editor. You can dynamically control who is able to access your admin menu items with a user role or user name. Also with the help of our rolemaster suite addon, you can create different types of user roles and control the permissions.

Support custom user roles

Works for selected user names

Select same menu items for multiple user role or user name

Hide WordPress Admin Menus →

Hide admin menu items for user role and name

Customize admin menu styles

There are different types of menu styles like folded, accordion, toggle, and much more. With the combination of our menu mode, type, and styles - you can create a unique admin menu for your Dashboard.

Vertical & Horizontal Menu

Folded and Rounded Admin Menu

Two step, Accordion, Toggle menu

Design Your Unique Menu →

User information in the Admin Menu

Showcase the logged-in user information at the top right corner of your WordPress Admin panel. Here you can showcase the user avatar, name, email, and log out icon.

Rounded & square style

Present info with text or icon

One click enables and disables

Add Custom User Info to Admin →

Change the font Style

Get rid of the default style and do some customization in the Admin menu font style. This can make your dashboard look more pleasant.

Define font size

Set line height for menu text

Adjust the later spacing

Customize WordPress Admin Fonts →

Color customization

Customize the menu wrapper, font, hover, and link colors based on your preference. Change the parent menu, submenu, and user info colors.

Select primary and hover color

Main menu and submenu items color

Notification and user info colors

Customize Admin Menu Colors →

Change admin menu bg and notificaiton color

Add Custom separator

Separator plays a vital role in organizing your existing menu items properly inside the admin menu area. WordPress doesn’t provide the option to add a custom separator by default. We have brought this feature for our pro users so that they can move their admin menu style to next level.

Remove default Separator

Add Custom Separator

Add WordPress Admin Separators →

Padding Adjustments

After doing all of the stuff, you may have wondered if there is any way to increase the gap between each menu item. To resolve this use case we have introduced the Padding Adjustments option for Admin menu editor.

Control Menu Width

Set parent menu items padding

Specify sub menu items vertical padding

Adjust Admin Menu Padding →

WP Adminify vs. the Admin Menu Editor plugin

If reordering and hiding menu items is all you need, the standalone Admin Menu Editor plugin handles it well — it's active on over 300,000 WordPress sites. WP Adminify gives you the same drag-and-drop control, then adds menu styling, admin bar editing, and white labeling, so you're not stacking four plugins to clean up one dashboard. (Updated July 2026)

	WP Adminify	Admin Menu Editor
Drag and drop menu items into a new order
Rename menus, change icons and URLs
Hide a menu item from a user role	Roles or usernames, per item	Required role/capability (per-role in Pro)
Style the admin menu (colors, fonts, padding, separators)
Menu layouts and a user information block in the menu
Edit the WordPress admin bar (toolbar)
White label the whole dashboard for clients
Free version on WordPress.org

When is the standalone Admin Menu Editor the better choice?

Choose it when the dashboard menu is the only thing you want to touch and you don't care how it looks. It's focused and mature, with deep permission rules. Choose WP Adminify when the menu is one part of a bigger cleanup — you also want a styled menu, a tidy admin bar, and a white-labeled dashboard your clients recognise as yours.

Either way, an admin menu editor is one layer of a larger job. Our WordPress dashboard customization guide walks through the rest, and the step-by-step menu editor tutorial shows the workflow inside WP Adminify.

Admin menu editor FAQs

What is a WordPress admin menu editor?

An admin menu editor is a plugin that changes the WordPress dashboard's left-hand menu without code. You can drag menu items into a new order, rename them, swap the icons, point them at a different URL, add a new menu of your own, and hide items from specific user roles — all from one settings screen.

How do I hide admin menu items for a specific user role?

Open the WP Adminify admin menu editor, click the menu item you want to hide, then choose the roles or usernames under “Hidden for” and save. That item disappears for those users. Editors and subscribers get a cleaner dashboard while your own admin menu stays exactly as it was.

Does hiding a menu item block access to that page?

No. Hiding a menu item removes it from view — it doesn't remove the capability behind it, so a user who knows the direct URL can still load the screen. If you need to genuinely block access, change what that user role is allowed to do as well as hiding the menu item.

Can I edit the WordPress admin menu without a plugin?

Yes — remove_menu_page() and add_menu_page() in a small custom plugin will reorder and hide menus. That's fine for one or two changes, but you're back in the code every time a plugin adds a menu item. Here's the custom admin menu walkthrough if you'd rather do it by hand.

Is WP Adminify's admin menu editor free?

Yes. The admin menu editor ships in the free WP Adminify plugin on WordPress.org — drag-and-drop ordering, renaming, and role-based hiding are all included. Pro unlocks the deeper styling and layout options. The pricing page lists exactly what each plan gives you.