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ELU Hide Admin Menu

by eLightUp · Admin & Utilities

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Hide admin menu and admin bar items in WordPress admin area based on user role.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

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45 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 76/100

Support 70/100

45 health vs 53 average across 2,814 Admin & Utilities plugins

100+

Active installs

≈140 estimated

2.7K

Total downloads

since 2018

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

-56%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

Long abandoned. No update in 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.29, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100

WP compatibility 10/100

Rating quality 52/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2836 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-56% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 77

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

ELU Hide Admin Menu · #16439 My Wp Brand · #5147 Easy Hide Admin Menu · #6151 Polanger Admin Suite · #21962

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “100+”. The real number sits in this band.

modeled estimate

100–200 ≈140

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,374 observations

Ratings · 2 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0.0
Last updated: 7.8y ago
Added: 2018-10-08 · 7 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 4.8
Tested up to: 4.9.29
Requires PHP: 5.3

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

No tier crossings observed yet.

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