AdminForge – Admin Management Toolkit

AdminForge – Admin Management Toolkit (Free) helps site owners clean up the WordPress admin area without editing theme files or writing custom code.

This version focuses on practical day-to-day admin improvements:

• Hide admin menu items per role.
• Hide core dashboard widgets per role.
• Customize the admin footer text.
• Hide the front-end admin bar for selected roles.

All settings are available from a single screen under Settings -> Admin Toolkit.

Main Features

• Admin menu control

  • Detects currently registered admin menu slugs.
  • Lets you hide selected menu items for each role.
  • Helpful for reducing clutter for editors, authors, and shop managers.

• Dashboard widget manager

  • Toggle common core dashboard widgets per role.
  • Keeps the Dashboard focused on only what each role needs.

• Admin UI customization

  • Replace the default admin footer text.
  • Hide the front-end admin bar for specific roles.
  • Uses safe sanitization for saved values.

Included in this free version

• Admin menu control
• Dashboard widget control
• Admin footer customization
• Front-end admin bar visibility by role

Not included in this free version

• Role-based wp-admin access restriction
• Performance tuning options
• Login branding and role-based login redirects
• XML-RPC and hardening toggles

Usage

1. Open Settings -> Admin Toolkit.
2. Choose a tab:
   • Admin menu control – hide selected menu slugs per role.
   • Dashboard widgets – hide selected core dashboard widgets per role.
   • Admin UI customization – set custom footer text and admin bar visibility.
3. Save changes.

Tips

• Menu slug list is generated from current admin menus. If a plugin menu is missing, open any admin page once, then reload the tab.
• Role-based settings apply to users who have that role.
• Front-end admin bar visibility only affects the site front end, not wp-admin screens.

Uninstall

When deleted from the Plugins screen, the plugin removes its saved option (afamt_options).