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.
WP Local Toolbox
Through constants defined in wp-config, you can disable plugins, disable the loading of external files, set search engine visibility, display or hide the admin bar, display the server name and change the color of the admin bar, or literally anything else you can think of. All without touching the database, so you can push and pull without worrying. For support, pull requests, and discussion: https://github.com/joeguilmette/wp-local-toolbox Admin Bar Change the color of your admin bar and display the name of the current server environment. Green for local, orange for staging, and of course, red for production. You can also force the front end admin bar to hide, to display, and can even set it to display when logged out. WPLT_SERVER: The name of your server environment. It will be displayed in the admin bar at browser widths greater than 1030px. If left undefined, the plugin will make no changes to the admin bar. If not defined as PRODUCTION or LIVE, the plugin will enable ‘Discourage search engines from indexing this site’ to prevent your development and staging servers from being indexed. This option is not stored in the database, so your production server will still look to the actual setting on the Reading page. WPLT_COLOR: Determines the color of the admin bar. You can set this to any CSS color. If left undefined, will use the following defaults: PRODUCTION / LIVE: red STAGING / TESTING: orange LOCAL / DEV: green WPLT_ADMINBAR: Show or hide the admin bar on the frontend. FALSE will force it to be hidden, TRUE will force it to display, ALWAYS will display the admin bar even when logged out. These settings will override the ‘Show toolbar’ setting in the ‘Users > Your Profile’ options panel and add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false'); in functions.php, but doesn’t attempt to overcome any CSS based hiding of the admin bar. In wp-config.php: // set server environment to 'LOCAL' define('WPLT_SERVER', 'local'); // set admin bar color to #800080 define('WPLT_COLOR', 'purple'); // show the admin bar even when logged out define('WPLT_ADMINBAR', 'always'); Disable Plugins Pass a serialized array in this constant to disable plugins. This does not store any data in the database, so plugins that are manually deactivated or activated through the admin panel will stay so. In order for this feature to function properly, WP Local Toolbox must be installed as an mu-plugin. You can read more about mu-plugins here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins. We’re investigating ways to avoid this requirement; if you have any ideas we’d love to hear it! WPLT_DISABLED_PLUGINS: A serialized array of plugins to disable. In wp-config.php: // deactivate a set of plugins define('WPLT_DISABLED_PLUGINS', serialize( array( 'hello-dolly.php', 'w3-total-cache/w3-total-cache.php', 'updraftplus/updraftplus.php', 'wordpress-https/wordpress-https.php' ) )); Post Update Notifications Receive notifications when any page, post, or attachment is added or updated. Notifications can be received via email, or can be sent to a Slack channel via their Incoming WebHook API. This is helpful in production to see if a client has submitted a new post, or in development to see if data is being added to the staging environment so you don’t accidentally overwrite new posts when pushing databases around. WPLT_NOTIFY: Define this constant as the email address where you’d like to be notified of post updates. You can specify either an email address or a Slack Incoming WebHook URL. You can set up a Slack Incoming WebHook URL here: https://my.slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook/ WPLT_NOTIFY_CHANNEL: If WPLT_NOTIFY is set to a Slack Incoming WebHook URL, you can specify the channel that the notification will be posted to. If left unset, it will post to the default channel specified in Slack’s Incoming WebHooks settings page. WPLT_DISABLE_ATTACHMENT_NOTIFY: If set, this will disable notifications for attachments. In wp-config.php: // send an email to someone@somewhere.com // whenever any post or page is updated define('WPLT_NOTIFY','someone@somewhere.com') // or, send a notification to a Slack channel define('WPLT_NOTIFY', 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/etc'); define('WPLT_NOTIFY_CHANNEL','#channel'); Airplane Mode Control loading of external files when developing locally. WP loads certain external files (fonts, gravatar, etc) and makes external HTTP calls. This isn’t usually an issue, unless you’re working in an evironment without a web connection. This plugin removes / unhooks those actions to reduce load time and avoid errors due to missing files. On and Off: Can be toggled from the admin bar by clicking ‘Airplane Mode’. In the admin bar a ✗ or ✓ will indicate if Airplane Mode is enabled or disabled. WPLT_AIRPLANE: Set this to anything to enable the Airpane Mode toggle. In wp-config.php: // enable the Airplane Mode toggle define('WPLT_AIRPLANE', 'true'); Modification You can add code that will be executed depending on server name by modifying the following in wp-local-toolbox.php. I’d love a pull request if you come up with something useful. if (strtoupper(WPLT_SERVER) != 'LIVE' && strtoupper(WPLT_SERVER) != 'PRODUCTION') { // Everything except PRODUCTION/LIVE SERVER // Hide from robots add_filter( 'pre_option_blog_public', '__return_zero' ); } else { // PRODUCTION/LIVE SERVER } Notes As a special thank you, this plugin will remove the ridiculous Howdy, that is prepended to the username in the admin bar. You’re welcome. Credit Plugin disabling from Mark Jaquith: https://gist.github.com/markjaquith/1044546 Using this fork from Andrey Savchenko: https://gist.github.com/Rarst/4402927 Airplane Mode from Andrew Norcross: https://github.com/norcross/airplane-mode Always showing the admin bar from Jeff Star: http://digwp.com/2011/04/admin-bar-tricks/ A healthy refactoring from Jon Brown of 9seeds
