AdminEase vs Radio Buttons for Taxonomies

AdminEase is an all-in-one WordPress admin toolkit that helps you manage updates, strengthen security, improve performance and streamline site maintenance without touching code. AdminEase makes everyday site management faster, safer, and easier from a clean, user friendly dashboard. Is your WordPress admin slow? AdminEase fixes the most common causes and locks down security without touching code. Fixes the slowdowns: Tackles low memory limits, database bloat, and WP-Cron overload, the most common causes of a sluggish admin. Locks down security: Harden your site against common attacks with a click, nothing to configure. One dashboard, 60+ settings: Toggle features on or off anytime, with nothing to break if you change your mind. Key Benefits No Coding Required: User-friendly interface for all skill levels Enhanced Security: Protect your site from common vulnerabilities Better Performance: Optimize WordPress for speed and efficiency Complete Control: Toggle features on/off anytime without risk Time Saver: Manage dozens of settings from one dashboard Features Updates and Notifications Auto Update Core: Enable/disable automatic WordPress core updates. Auto Update Plugins: Enable/disable automatic plugin updates. Auto Update Themes: Enable/disable automatic theme updates. Auto Update Translations: Enable/disable automatic translation updates. Update Notification Emails: Receive emails when core, themes, or plugins are auto-updated. New User Admin Notification Email: Notify admin on a new user registration. User Password Change Admin Notification Email: Notify admin when a user changes their password. Comment Admin Notification Email: Notify admin on new comments. Send Email Through SMTP: Send your site’s email through a real mailbox instead of the web server, so password resets, order confirmations, and contact form messages reach the inbox instead of spam. Includes a test button that reports exactly what your mail server said. Disable Admin Notices: Hide admin notices from plugins and themes. Disable recovery mode email notification: Prevent WordPress from sending recovery mode emails. Customize recovery mode recipient email: Set a custom email address to receive recovery mode notifications. Security Disable File Edit: Prevent editing theme/plugin files from the admin panel. Disable File Mods: Prevent all file modifications in WordPress, including installing, updating, and deleting plugins and themes. Disable XML-RPC: Block XML-RPC access to reduce attack surface, with an IP allowlist in AdminEase Pro. Disable REST API: Block REST API access, with an IP allowlist in AdminEase Pro, plus the option to allow all HTTP requests to wordpress.org, including plugin/theme updates, version checks, and other API communications. Disable Embeds: Stop automatic embedding of external content. Hide WordPress Version: Remove version info from source code and feeds. Password Protect Site: Protect your entire website with a password, featuring customizable themes, role-based bypasses, IP whitelisting, device remembering, and auto-disable scheduling. Block Access to .htaccess/.htpasswd: Protect sensitive server files. Disable Pingbacks: Prevent XML-RPC pingback abuse. Block Author Scans: Prevent username enumeration. Block Directory Browsing: Stop public directory listing. Disable Script Concatenation (Admin): Prevent certain DoS attacks in admin. Block Specific Countries (GeoIP): Restrict site access by country. Block Specific Bots: Control which bots can access your site CORS Headers: Enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing to allow trusted websites to access your site’s resources safely. Hide PHP Version: Remove X-Powered-By header to hide PHP version information from headers. Performance Memory & Execution Limits: Raise your site’s memory and PHP execution time limits to stop “out of memory” and timeout errors. Autosave Interval: Customize how often WordPress auto-saves your work. Reliable Cron: Replace WP-Cron with a real server cron job, so scheduled tasks run on time instead of waiting on site traffic. Disable Emojis: Stop loading emoji scripts and styles you don’t need. Posts Empty Trash Days: Set the number of days to keep deleted posts in trash. Post Revisions: Limit or disable post revisions to save database space. Disable Gutenberg Editor: Disable the block editor and revert to the classic editor. Drag and Drop Ordering Posts: Rearrange posts via drag-and-drop. Disable Comments: Disable comments site-wide with a single toggle. Bulk Delete Posts: Delete posts in bulk from the admin panel. Posts Metadata Box: Adds a meta box to posts for easy management of custom fields. Taxonomies Drag and Drop Ordering Taxonomies: Rearrange taxonomies via drag-and-drop. Improved Taxonomy Meta Box: Enable lazy loading for taxonomy terms to improve performance. Taxonomy Switcher: Switch taxonomy terms between taxonomies in a single click. Taxonomy Term Metadata Box: Adds a meta box to taxonomy terms for easy management of custom fields. Bulk Delete Terms: Delete taxonomy terms in bulk from the admin panel, with an optional filter for empty terms only or a name search, and an option to delete child terms along with their parent. Users Disable User Registration: Block all new user registrations. Force Strong Passwords: Enforce password complexity rules (length, case, numbers, symbols). Auto-Logout User: Auto-logout users after inactivity (customizable per role and time). Hide Admin Bar: Hide the admin bar for specific users. Redirect After Login/Logout: Customize where users go after logging in or out Users Metadata Box: Adds a meta box to users for easy management of custom fields. Last Login Tracking: Tracks when users log in, displays the information in the users table, and shows it on their profile pages. Debug WP Debug: Enable WordPress debug mode. WP Debug Log: Log errors to a file. WP Debug Display: Show/hide errors on the site. Debug Log Viewer: View the debug log directly from the admin panel. Maintenance Mode: Prevent all users from accessing the site but not the admin area. Network Viewer: See every incoming request to your site in real time to spot suspicious activity and traffic spikes. Email Log: Every email your site sends, logged with recipient, subject, and delivery status, so you can debug missing emails and SMTP problems. Cron Viewer: See every scheduled task, find orphaned jobs left behind by deleted plugins, and run, pause, or resume any job on demand. Media Upload Max File Size: Set maximum upload file size. Allow SVG Uploads: Enable SVG file uploads with security checks. Allow Custom File Extension Uploads: Enable additional file types beyond WordPress defaults Media Infinite Scrolling: Enable infinite scrolling for the media library. Disable Big Image Threshold: Disable the threshold for displaying large images in the media library. Plugins Display Active Plugins First: Reorders the Plugins list to show active plugins at the top, separated from inactive plugins by a visual divider. Enable Plugin Download: Adds a Download link to each plugin row, allowing admins to download any installed plugin as a .zip file directly from the admin panel. Requires PHP ZipArchive extension. Important Disclaimer This plugin modifies core WordPress functionality and behaviors. While we strive to maintain compatibility and stability: The plugin’s features may work differently or not at all depending on your server configuration, hosting environment, and installed plugins Some features may be restricted on certain hosting providers or server setups We strongly recommend testing the plugin in a staging environment before using it on a production site Always maintain regular backups of your website before making any changes Server Compatibility Notice Different server configurations may affect the plugin’s functionality: Shared hosting environments might have restrictions that prevent certain features from working Some features may require specific PHP extensions or server modules Server-level email configurations might affect notification control features Nginx and other servers that do not read .htaccess Several features are normally delivered as .htaccess rules, which Apache and LiteSpeed (in Apache-compatibility mode) read, but Nginx, LiteSpeed in native mode, and IIS do not. On those servers AdminEase automatically enforces the following in PHP instead, so they work the same way with nothing to configure: Disable XML-RPC Block Specific Countries Block Specific Bots The settings screen tells you which method is in use on your server. Features that change PHP or WordPress configuration rather than blocking requests (memory limit, upload size, file-editor lockdown, and similar) are unaffected either way. The same applies to the backup copies AdminEase keeps of your wp-config.php and .htaccess files. They are stored in a folder with a long random name, which keeps them out of reach on every server, instead of relying on a rule file that only some servers read. Block Specific Countries additionally need a geolocation source: either Cloudflare in front of your site or the GeoIP module on the server. If neither is available, the feature reports itself as unsupported rather than appearing to work. If you experience any issues, please check with your hosting provider about server limitations.

Replace the default taxonomy boxes with a custom metabox that uses radio buttons… effectively limiting each post to a single term in that taxonomy. A plugin options page allows the user can select which taxonomies she’d like to switch to using the custom radio-button style metabox. Originally based on the the class by Stephen Harris Support Support is handled in the WordPress forums. Please note that support is limited and does not cover any custom implementation of the plugin. Before posting a question, read the FAQ and confirm that the problem still exists with a default theme and with all other plugins disabled. Please report any bugs, errors, warnings, code problems to Github