Admin Menu Editor vs View Admin As

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.

The ultimate User switcher and Role manager This plugin will add a menu item to your admin bar where you can change your view in the WordPress admin. Switch to other users without the need to login as that user or even switch roles and temporarily change your own capabilities. When you’re viewing as a different user, you can also change this user’s preferences; like screen settings on various admin pages. With the “Role defaults” module you can set default screen settings and metabox locations for roles and apply them to users through various bulk actions. It also features a “Role manager” module to add, edit or remove roles and grant or deny them capabilities. Overview / Features Switch between user accounts Edit this user’s screen preferences and settings Switch between roles Temporarily change your own capabilities (non-destructively) View your site as an unregistered visitor Switch language/locale on backend and frontend Make combinations of the above view types Easily switch back anytime Completely secure (see Security below) Do all the above without logging out! Module: Role defaults (screen settings) Set default screen settings for roles Apply defaults to a user Apply defaults to all users of a role Apply defaults when registering a new user (in a multisite this is done when a user is added to its first blog) Copy defaults from one role to another (or multiple) Import/Export role defaults, can also download (and upload) setting files Disable the “screen settings” option and/or lock the meta boxes for all users that don’t have access to this plugin Click here for Role Defaults documentation Module: Role manager (role editor) Note: Changes made with the Role Manager are permanent! Add, edit or delete roles Grant and/or add capabilities to roles Rename roles Clone roles Import/Export roles, can also download (and upload) setting files Update role capabilities from current view Automatically migrate users to another role after deleting a role Click here for Role Manager documentation Compatibility & Integrations This plugin will work with most other plugins but these are tested: Advanced Access Manager (Pro version not verified) bbPress BuddyPress Genesis Framework (and probably other theme frameworks) Google Site Kit Gravity Forms Groups 2.1+ (Custom integration: adds a view type for groups. Pro version not tested) Pods Framework 2.0+ Members Restrict User Access 0.13+ (Custom integration: adds a view type for access levels) User Roles and Capabilities User Role Editor (Pro version not verified) User Switching (Not sure why you’d want this but yes, switch-ception is possible!) WPFront User Role Editor WP Admin UI Customize 1.5.11+ Yoast SEO Full list of tested plugins and details: Compatibility & Integrations I can’t switch back! See item 3 at FAQ. It’s not working! / I found a bug! Please let me know through the support and add a plugins and themes list! 🙂 Security This plugin is completely safe and will keep your users, passwords and data secure. For more info see item 7 at FAQ! Developer notes This plugin will only be useful for admins (network super admins or regular admins). It will not add functionalities for other roles unless you specifically apply custom capabilities for those users. Also keep in mind that switching to users that have equal roles is disabled. (regular admins to regular admins + super admins to super admins) I’ve created this at first for myself since I’m a developer and often need to see the outcome on roles which my clients use. So, when you are developing a plugin or theme that does anything with roles or capabilities you can use this plugin to easily check if everything works. No more hassle of creating test users and constantly logging out and in anymore! This plugin is also useful to support your clients and/or users. For example; make screen display presets of the edit and overview pages before you let them log in. You can find me here: Keraweb GitHub LinkedIn Translations Please help translating this plugin on translate.wordpress.org! Actions & Filters Click here for Action documentation Click here for Filter documentation Plugin capabilities Click here for documentation Ideas? Please let me know on GitHub!