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Remove admin menus by role

by manu225 · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 18 other plugins · 25K+ installs across the portfolio →

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Select easily which admin menus to remove for which roles.

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Health

A 85/100

no flags

Active installs

8K+

≈8.9K estimated

Momentum

+21%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: Swap “admin” for “remove menu”. “admin” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “remove menu” sits at #10 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.

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85 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 79/100
Support 70/100

85 health vs 56 average across 5,896 Admin & Utilities plugins

8K+

Active installs

≈8.9K estimated

79.2K

Total downloads

since 2016 · 10% still active

4.1/5

Rating

4.4 on wp.org · 14 reviews

+21%

830

Downloads · 30d

category median +9%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

10%

of downloads still active

At least 8K of 79.2K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,186 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Admin & Utilities plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

This plugin shipped 2 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.

Ratings · 14 reviews

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5★
11 4★
0 3★
1 2★
1 1★
1

Details

Version
1.38
Last updated
3mo ago
Added
2016-02-16 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
7.1.4
Requires PHP
5.6
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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.

93 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Most to gain: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100

Updated 77 days ago

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer

Rating quality 69/100

4.4★ over 14 reviews, smoothed to 4.17★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+21% vs prior 30d
3331 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 8.8K · peaks are release surges

83131 Oct 2026

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

Remove admin menus b · #2425youAdmin Menu Editor · #157Conditional Menus · #666If Menu · #751

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.431 Oct 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

8531 Oct 2026

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.

10431 Oct 2026

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

2

releases in the last 12 months

6mo ago

latest release · v1.38 · 19 May 2026

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.38 · 19 May 20261.37 · 2 Dec 2025

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 56% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.38 56%
v1.37 27%
v1.35 8.3%
Older / other versions 8.9%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “8K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
8K–9K ≈8.9K

Crossed into this band 14 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.

Install history since 7 Nov 2016

8K31 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ aespe
    3.9y ago

    Thank you developer! its free and works as expected

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  2. ★★★★★ FilipeOS
    4.1y ago

    Simply don’t work, sadly

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  3. ★★★★★ Gabor Lippert
    4.2y ago

    Why? Because it doesn’t work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You can easily check this: – create a new role with the User Role Editor plugin – assign the new role to a user – use this plugin to disable, for instance, the Plugin screens – open an incognito window, and log in with the previously updated user’s credentials – go to the plugin screen by using it’s url instead of the hidden menu item – sheesh, no access restriction. A role restriction plugin that doesn’t really restrict the access doesn’t make sense, and it’s extremely dangerous if a plugin user and site owner is not careful enough, and thorough with the testing.

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  4. ★★★★★ ulisesflores
    5.1y ago

    Como lo describe quita de la vista los menús que no queremos que vean ciertos roles, para mi es suficiente o lo que buscaba.

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  5. ★★★★★ leonpap
    5.6y ago

    If you add this function maybe consider a better rating

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  6. ★★★★★ BubbaLovesWP
    6.4y ago

    Super easy and clean. Works great. However it did not seem to work on hiding the “Profile” item in the menu. Though, neither did any of the other plugins I tried.

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  7. ★★★★★ thegeekaid
    6.4y ago

    Simple and effective.

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  8. ★★★★★ SINZETA
    6.5y ago

    Hola, Nos parece un plugin simple y práctico la verdad. Además no presenta conflictos aparentes con ningún plugin como nos ha pasado con otros. El problema está en que no elimina dichos menús solo los oculta. Entiendo, que eliminar, no lo toman en el sentido literal, pero si entiendo que, por cuestiones de seguridad, no puedan tener acceso usuarios que no tengan permisos de acceso, y eso no ha pasado con este plugin. Queríamos no permitir que el usuario visualizara el dashboard, en cambio, si se introduce la dirección del mismo en la barra de direcciones, el usuario seguirá teniendo acceso a el de manera sencilla, algo que es inadmisible y afecta a la seguridad y privacidad. Por esa razón le damos 3 estrellas… Pues, hay que mejorar ese aspecto para que no sean visibles ni por barra de dirección los items ocultados del admin.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

✓ 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 4 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Chinese (Taiwan) 100%
Swedish 91%
Arabic 66%
Japanese 66%

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

3 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Select easily which admin menus to remove for which roles."
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Multisite.
  • ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 219 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "hide" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-09-04 7K+ → 8K+ up after 22 days in tier
  2. 2025-08-13 8K+ → 7K+ down after 44 days in tier
  3. 2025-06-30 7K+ → 8K+ up after 140 days in tier
  4. 2025-02-10 6K+ → 7K+ up after 961 days in tier
  5. 2022-06-25 5K+ → 6K+ up after 312 days in tier
  6. 2021-08-17 4K+ → 5K+ up after 378 days in tier
  7. 2020-08-04 3K+ → 4K+ up after 257 days in tier
  8. 2019-11-21 2K+ → 3K+ up after 77 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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