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WP Clean Admin Menu

by P Roy · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 5 other plugins · 9.9K+ installs across the portfolio →

WP Clean Admin Menu optimize dashboard experience, by removing unnecessary menu items, and managing menu visibility based on user roles.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 7/100
Rating quality 86/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 54 average across 3,791 Admin & Utilities plugins

Removal-risk signals

45/100

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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.

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.

54 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 15/100
WP compatibility 53/100
Rating quality 65/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1164 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 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+52% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

235

now · peak 2.2K

23430d 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

WP Clean Admin Menu · #4617 you Hostinger Tools · #20 Loginizer · #45 Maintenance · #58

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.

117per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 84% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.2 84%
v2.0 8.8%
Older / other versions 7%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.8K

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

Install history · since 2019-07-22 · 1,427 observations

2KInstalls · 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.

Details

Version
3.2.1
Last updated
3.2y ago
Added
2019-03-29 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
4.5
Tested up to
6.2.11
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. tutilld
    2.6y ago

    wondered if anyone else has used the link to buy the Pro version. I made my donation via PayPal and the receipt showed it being paid to 7uphost. I’ve not received a link to download the Pro version. Have I been scammed??? Any experiences you may have had I would appreciate hearing about. Cheers

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  2. mahoney
    3.0y ago

    Simple and works well

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  3. Yiorgos Theo
    3.2y ago

    cleaned up my cluttered admin menu!

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  4. Bowo
    3.9y ago

    This has been my go to plugin to tidy up wp-admin menu of complex sites. Thanks for the great work!

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  5. Zachary Elkins
    4.2y ago

    I prefer having the options as a toggle, as this plugin does, instead of hiding them permanently from clients. This means that I can clean up the dashboard for myself aswell, as settings I don’t use often are easily accessible yet out of the way. I say near perfect because it would be helpful to have the ability to apply settings per userrole, and maybe per user.

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  6. DevilIce
    5.5y ago

    This plugin is awesome, perfect for customers that dont understand nothing with too much options. Like your granny with remote controller that have problem to put up the volume!

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  7. Сергей
    5.9y ago

    Годная штука.

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  8. Jimmy Lee
    6.7y ago

    Thanks for helping me tidy up my admin menu! Really slick plugin!

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 3.2 WP Clean Admin Menu Pro link added. 3.2
  2. Version 3.0 Fix some php warnings. 3.0
  3. Version 2.0 *Release Date – 13/12/2021 * Add: Option to hide admin sub-menus 2.0

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.2.2

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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-11-21 3K+ → 2K+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2025-11-19 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-11-18 3K+ → 2K+ down

Competes with

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