Title: Hide Admin Menu Author: Bhavin Thummar Published: October 9, 2017 Last modified: May 20, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/hide-admin-menu/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=2003726) ![](https://ps.w.org/hide-admin-menu/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1744951) # Hide Admin Menu By [Bhavin Thummar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bhavinthummar/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hide-admin-menu.1.1.2.zip) * [Details](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/#description) * [Reviews](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/#reviews) * [Installation](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/#installation) * [Development](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-menu/) ## Description This plugin gives the facility for hiding and showing the admin menu of the side and top bars. This plugin gives an easy way to hide admin menus by checking the checkbox of a particular menu in the form and then submitting the form so that checked menus hide from the admin. Admin also can hide menu according to the role of users. ## Screenshots * [[ * This is the page of menu hide where the user can hide and show the admin menu. ## Installation 1. Upload hide-admin-menu to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Open Hide Menu from the menu bar and then check or tick mark those menus that you won’t hide from the admin bar. ## FAQ ### How can I show hide menus? You can show the menu that is hidden by this plugin doing the uncheck those menus from the menu list in the form. ### What should you do when you hide all the menus with this plugin? You should open the below URL YOUR-WEBSITE-URL/wp-admin/admin.php?page=hide-admin- menu Update the necessary setting to show any menu again by this URL. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/191a36753f053d285afa40a8be4001cd51b25912031be9c4fa83253d322678e8? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Excellent plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-plugin-9705/)󠁿 [Dimis99](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dimis99/) October 16, 2025 Excellent plugin, It has a simple and very detailed user interface from which you can select which elements to show and to which user roles. The elements that appear are wordpress default, also all other menu elements created by plugins and themes. Thank you! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/09cfbfb4db7cf5b1daeec94c51e09c4db92535c3f7ed61dd7c118670aa572922? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Plugin Shotcoder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shotcoder/)󠁿 [webteam2000](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webteam2000/) June 27, 2024 Great plugin! but I can’t hide the menu for the plugin “SHORTCODER” because it is not shown! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/db3ad0ccf1df46b9d35ca9872bac675eac1e98c3e0c44043a92440ce4c21ffe9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[nice](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-4700/)󠁿 [kojot](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kojot/) November 20, 2023 1 reply super ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/590c1a85322729f2345aa128684db6522b37951ea328215b6f501ed8439c0a91? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Love my Admin Area Now!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/love-my-admin-area-now/)󠁿 [Jimmy Lee](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shirtguy72/) February 27, 2022 1 reply Great plugin, THANKS! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7f91dac4584035b667b216ccca947a64b37bb8203df9a3b6ff09ef1123849d0f? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Simple and effective plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-and-effective-plugin-18/)󠁿 [anasbello](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anasbello/) August 20, 2021 1 reply Thank you so much for making this great and effective plugin and giving it out for free. a lot of paid plugins are not as effective and simple as this. Big kuddos to you guys. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/728283f04c239a41ee35ff8f1753375940204d8e398cef6aae790d6d45a210d3? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Ótimo Pluguin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nao-funciona-para-woocommerce/)󠁿 [tianoduarte0909](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tianoduarte0909/) July 11, 2021 1 reply Ajuda muito, parabéns ao desenvolvedor! [ Read all 13 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-menu/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Hide Admin Menu” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Bhavin Thummar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bhavinthummar/) “Hide Admin Menu” has been translated into 8 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hide-admin-menu/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Hide Admin Menu” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hide-admin-menu) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-admin-menu/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hide-admin-menu/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hide-admin-menu/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hide-admin-menu/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog 1. Solved some warnings and notices at the time of the save process at version WordPress 4.8. 2. Solved 2 character error issue at the time of activation of the plugin and remove deprecate function on version 1.0.4 3. Tested with WordPress 5.4.1 4. Solved the error shown in the site health tools. 5. Solved the issue of the session related to version 1.0.7. So please update the version of 1.0.8 which is the latest one. 6. Removed the use of the $_SESSION of PHP and used the wp_session in version 1.0.9 to solve the session-related warning in the website. 7. In version 1.1.0, solved the issue of not hiding the customized menu. Also removed unnecessary CSS for one class from the CSS file which conflicts with other CSS. 8. In version 1.1.1, Tested with WordPress 6.2 and solved the warning related to the already sent content during the updating of the form. 9. Version 1.1.2 is tested with WordPress 6.5.4. ## Meta * Version **1.1.2** * Last updated **11 months ago** * Active installations **20,000+** * WordPress version ** 4.6 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.8.5** * Languages * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/), [Spanish (Colombia)](https://es-co.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/), [Spanish (Ecuador)](https://es-ec.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/), [Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/), [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/), [Spanish (Venezuela)](https://ve.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/), and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hide-admin-menu) * Tags * [admin menu plugin](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin-menu-plugin/) [user role](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user-role/) * [Advanced View](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-menu/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.9 out of 5 stars. * [ 12 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-menu/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 1 4-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-menu/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-menu/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-menu/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-menu/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-menu/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-menu/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Bhavin Thummar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bhavinthummar/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-menu/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](https://www.paypal.me/BThummar)