Should I choose Admin Menu Editor or BEAPI – Maintenance Mode?

Admin Menu Editor holds the higher average rating (4.6★ vs 0.0★). That is the one dimension AppRanks can separate them on here — read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.

Which is faster to set up, Admin Menu Editor or BEAPI – Maintenance Mode?

Both apps are one-click installs from the WordPress Plugin Directory. Admin Menu Editor has the deeper published review base (312 vs 0), which often — though not always — accompanies better-tested setup docs. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly: read the recent reviews on each app's detail page for user-reported install experience.

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Admin Menu Editor typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (312 reviews). BEAPI – Maintenance Mode typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (0 reviews). A larger review base generally means the app has been exercised at scale — relevant if you are processing high volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.

Can I migrate data between Admin Menu Editor and BEAPI – Maintenance Mode?

Migration support varies by app and category. Admin Menu Editor and BEAPI – Maintenance Mode both publish their export options on their marketplace listing pages (or in their support docs); some apps offer one-click import from competitors, others require CSV. The fastest check: search "import from BEAPI – Maintenance Mode" in each app's help center. AppRanks does not track migration tooling directly — this is a category-specific capability worth verifying before commitment.

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Admin Menu Editor vs BEAPI – Maintenance — WordPress

Admin Menu Editor vs BEAPI – Maintenance Mode

Name: Admin Menu Editor
Rating: 4.6 (312 reviews)

Side-by-side comparison · 24 data points

Admin Menu Editor

4.6·312reviews·300,000+installs

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1. Listing metadata

Field-level data

	Admin Menu Editor	BEAPI – Maintenance Mode
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Description	2624 / 5000 chars52% used	2432 / 5000 chars49% used
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Languages
Platforms	WordPress	WordPress
Developer	Janis Elsts	BE API
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2. Categories & rankings

Shared categories on the same row · in-category position inline

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At a glance

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Feature comparison between Admin Menu Editor and BEAPI – Maintenance Mode
Metric	Admin Menu Editor	BEAPI – Maintenance Mode
Rating	4.6 ★	—
Total reviews	312	0
Active installs	300,000+	100+
Free plan	—	—

Keyword	Admin Menu Editor	BEAPI – Maintenance Mode
online form	#352	Not ranked
online forms	#365	Not ranked
custom form	#754	Not ranked

5. App details

Long-form description · keyword frequency

Admin Menu Editor

Admin Menu Editor lets you manually edit the Dashboard menu. You can reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change permissions, and more. Features Change menu titles, URLs, icons, CSS classes and so on. Organize menu items via drag & drop. Change menu permissions by setting the required capability or role. Move a menu item to a different submenu. Create custom menus that point to any part of the Dashboard or an external URL. Hide/show any menu or menu item. A hidden menu is invisible to all users, including administrators. The Pro version lets you set per-role menu permissions, hide a menu from everyone except a specific user, export your admin menu, drag items between menu levels, make menus open in a new window and more. Try online demo. Additional Features Despite the name, this plugin is not limited to just editing the admin menu. You can also: Create login redirects and logout redirects. Allow/deny access to specific posts based on user roles. Hide plugins on the Plugins -> Installed Plugins page from other users. Edit the display name, description, and other plugin details shown on the Plugins -> Installed Plugins page (e.g. for white-labelling). Shortcodes The plugin provides a few utility shortcodes. These are mainly intended to help with creating login/logout redirects, but you can also use them in posts and pages. [ame-wp-admin] – URL of the WordPress dashboard (with a trailing slash). [ame-home-url] – Site URL. Usually, this is the same as the URL in the “Site Address” field in Settings -> General. [ame-user-info field="..."] – Information about the logged-in user. Parameters: field – The part of user profile to display. Supported fields include: ID, user_login, display_name, locale, user_nicename, user_url, and so on. placeholder – Optional. Text that will be shown if the visitor is not logged in. encoding – Optional. How to encode or escape the output. This is useful if you want to use the shortcode in your own HTML or JS code. Supported values: auto (default), html, attr, js, none. Notes If you delete any of the default menus they will reappear after saving. This is by design. To get rid of a menu for good, either hide it or change it’s access permissions. In the free version, it’s not possible to give a role access to a menu item that it couldn’t see before. You can only restrict menu access further. In case of emergency, you can reset the menu configuration back to the default by going to http://example.com/wp-admin/?reset_admin_menu=1 (replace example.com with your site URL). You must be logged in as an Administrator to do this.

Top keywords

menu19×4.28%
user7×1.58%
url6×1.35%
hide5×1.13%
access4×0.90%
admin4×0.90%
admin menu4×0.90%
change4×0.90%
menus4×0.90%
permissions4×0.90%
dashboard3×0.68%
default3×0.68%

BEAPI – Maintenance Mode

This simple and lightweight WordPress maintenance plugin puts the site into maintenance mode. The major advantage, compared to existing plugins, is that there are no options, it is ready to use! It was think, while in maintenance mode, to : – Not impact your SEO by sending a ‘503 Service Unavailable’ status to all unauthenticated clients. This means that it will inhibits search engines from both losing your site’s existing content and indexing your maintenance page as well, so your site will not lose its rankings while it is out of service. Content will even be hidden from consumers of the site’s RSS or Atom feeds. – Make continually work the login/loggout process. – It handle the activate process in multisite, which a lot of existing plugins don’t. – If people are logged in they will have the site displayed as normal/expected. How ? We would like to precise that this plugin is simple as pie, anyone can use it but still dev-oriented. The idea is to not have a bunch of options to set before using it, in fact not only one! Because, it is a really pain when working on a multisite. That is why there as still two filter for developers, which come in the section below. IPs whitelist In certain conditions, it is useful to not trigger the maintenance mode. That’s why you can add a file to your project (mu-plugins) to specify a range of IPs to whitelist. At the agency we use it with our VPN IP. Please find an example of implementation on the following github; Customize the maintenance mode template By default it is the file located in the templates folder : maintenance.php But you can customize this template using the following implementation on github, with a custom template placed wherever you want. Composer It is possible to activate the plugin by composer wp plugin activate beapi-maitenance-mode [--network] If you are a developer and the plugin is not installed, you could also just use a dedicated composer command. Who ? Created by Be API, the French WordPress leader agency since 2009. Based in Paris, we are more than 30 people and always hiring some fun and talented guys. So we will be pleased to work with you. This plugin is only maintained, which means we do not guarantee some free support. Consider reporting an issue and be patient. To facilitate the process of submitting an issue and quicker answer, we only use Github, so don’t use WP.Org support, it will not be considered.

Top keywords

maintenance7×1.66%
site5×1.18%
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Admin Menu Editor vs BEAPI – Maintenance Mode

Admin Menu Editor

1. Listing metadata

2. Categories & rankings

BEAPI – Maintenance Mode

At a glance

AppRanks verdict

3. Search rankings

4. Activity in the last 90 days

Admin Menu Editor · 1 changes

BEAPI – Maintenance Mode · 0 changes

5. App details

Frequently asked

Should I choose Admin Menu Editor or BEAPI – Maintenance Mode?

Which is faster to set up, Admin Menu Editor or BEAPI – Maintenance Mode?

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Can I migrate data between Admin Menu Editor and BEAPI – Maintenance Mode?

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