Admin Menu Editor vs Purify Menus

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.

Improve page speed by letting slim down the HTML code of menus and category lists to the only CSS classes and attributes your theme needs. The plugin is available in English, Spanish (Español) and German (Deutsch). Less code, higher page speed This plugin deletes the CSS classes you do not need in a navigation menu, page menu and category list. It slims down the HTML code of WordPress menus and category lists to the only neccessary CSS classes you want for your theme. This results in less HTML code and thus in higher page speed. If you are very concerned about the loading time of your website and you do not manage to gain seconds or tenths in the loading of the site with 3rd party caching plugins, you may find it interesting to experiment with the plugin Purify WordPress Menus and evaluate its possibilities. What users said …interesante experimentar… in Reduce CSS en WordPress y mejora la carga by Luis Méndez Alejo on August 20, 2015 Number 1 in Cool List of Free Navigation Menu WordPress Plugins by Inspiration on January 8, 2015 Number 7 in 13 Excellent Free WordPress Widgets for Menus by mike on November 24, 2014 Number 6 in 13 Great Free HTML Widgets for WordPress by sam on August 27, 2014 Number 8 in 10 Magnificent Free Menus Widgets for WordPress by jatin on July 26, 2014 No undesirable visual effects The visual appearance of menus and category lists in the frontend remains unchanged in most cases. If you should see an undesirable visual effect to the menus and category lists in your theme, then you can activate the needed CSS classes on the plugin’s options page. Deactivate it and keep your settings If you deactivate the plugin, your settings remains. If you activate the plugin again, your last settings will be used. You do not need to go over all settings again. Residue-free deletion If you delete the plugin via the WordPress ‘Plugin’ menu, your settings will be deleted, too. No useless option remains in the WordPress database. Default setting: Marks the current menu item only The default setting is to output only the CSS classes for the navigation menu items of the current post and the current category. Stops displaying CSS classes of parents and ancestors of menu items and category list items If activated by yourself, then items which are parents of the current item will not be classified as ancestors additionally. You can set that separately for both menus and category lists. Stops displaying CSS classes of outdated page menus This plugin filters out the old CSS classes of page menus in navigation menus. Using the WordPress menu configurator the page menu classes are not necessary anymore. Stops displaying #menu-{id} This plugin deletes the ID attribute of each menu item. In most cases the ID of every menu item is not needed. Stops displaying CSS classes of category lists This plugin filters out the CSS classes of each item in category lists. Uses WordPress standard functions This plugin hooks into the WordPress core functions wp_nav_menu(), wp_page_menu() and wp_list_categories(). It changes the results of those functions to the settings you have done. Switch on and off every CSS menu item class You can: select and deselect in detail every CSS menu item class the WordPress core functions wp_nav_menu(), wp_page_menu() and wp_list_categories() generate control whether the id attribute of each navigation menu item is printed out or not control whether parent items will be additionally classified as ancestors item or not. You can activate to print out both classes on parent items or just parents classes control whether navigation menus will be additionally classified with the older page menu classes for compatibility or not. Languages Purify WordPress Menus is available in multiple languages maintained by the amazing WordPress community. Your language is missing? Please be part of the community and help to translate Purify WordPress Menus on GlotPress. Thank you!