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Hide Admin Menu Items

by Charles-Alexandre Laurent · Admin & Utilities

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Hide Admin Menu Items provide a small functionality to hide rarely used menu items. Very simple !

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 54 average across 3,793 Admin & Utilities plugins

200+

Active installs

≈250 estimated

2.7K

Total downloads

since 2022

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+97%

63

Downloads · 30d

category median +22%

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.15.

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.

45 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 5/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1701 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+97% vs prior 30d
2Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

63

now · peak 81

6330d downloads · Aug 26

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

Hide Admin Menu Item · #11842 you Admin Menu Editor · #159 Ozh' Admin Drop Down · #4292 White Label CMS · #232

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

315per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

4.7y ago

latest release · v1.0.0

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.0 · 4.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈250

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-08-10 · 1,375 observations

200Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
4.7y ago
Added
2022-01-03 · 4 yrs old
Requires WP
4.7
Tested up to
5.8.15
Requires PHP
7.0
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ BIrdie
    2.4y ago

    I’m leaving this review because I’ve come across several plugins for managing the left navigation in the WP dashboard, but I find this one to be the simplest and most straightforward if you’re just looking to hide the unnecessary clutter. My only suggestion for improvement is if the author could make a slight code change to prevent the “Hasn’t been updated or tested” message from appearing on the plugin overview.Great plugin otherwise!

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  2. ★★★★★ atomes
    4.6y ago

    This plugin works perfectly. It’s very simple and useful. I recommend this plugin.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.9.2

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

French (France) 55%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-02-18 300+ → 200+ down after 204 days in tier
  2. 2025-07-29 200+ → 300+ up after 4 days in tier
  3. 2025-07-25 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
  4. 2025-07-23 200+ → 300+ up after 4 days in tier
  5. 2025-07-19 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2025-07-18 200+ → 300+ up after 3 days in tier
  7. 2025-07-15 300+ → 200+ down after 657 days in tier
  8. 2023-09-27 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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