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Menu Editor Free

Reorder, rename and hide WordPress admin menu items

Drag admin menu items into the order your team works, rename them, hide the ones they don’t need, and control which roles can see each page.

Download free or read the Menu Editor docs

Free on WordPress.org, with nothing locked behind Pro.

in the free plugin
Free
updates since 2023
19
last improved in
3.4.0
Admin Tools modules
12
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Why you need Menu Editor

Every plugin adds a top-level menu item, so the sidebar grows to thirty entries. Clients can’t find Pages, and editors can open screens they shouldn’t touch.

What Menu Editor does

  • Reorder and rename

    Drag items into place and give them clearer names.

  • Hide items

    Hide items from the menu for everyone or for chosen roles.

  • Role access

    Grant a role access to a page, and only that page. Denied pages stay blocked even by direct URL.

Where Menu Editor helps

  • An account manager walking a client through WP Extended on a laptop in a café

    Client handover

    A short menu with Pages, Posts and the two plugins they actually use.

  • A photographer in her studio with WP Extended open on a desktop monitor

    Editorial roles

    Give editors one settings page without making them administrators.

Menu Editor vs Admin Menu Editor

Admin Menu Editor has 300k+ active installs on WordPress.org. If you only need this one job, that’s a fine choice. If the site also needs other modules on this list, it’s one less plugin to update.

The difference
Menu Editor does the same core job inside WP Extended, so it shares one settings screen, one update and one support team with every other module you use.

Recent changes

The latest updates to Menu Editor, from the WP Extended changelog.

Full changelog
  1. v3.4.0 3 Nov 2026
    • improved

      Loading and resetting the menu no longer reloads the page.

  2. v3.3.0 10 Sept 2026
    • improved

      A role granted a page now receives that page’s capability only while WordPress is serving that page, not for the rest of the admin session.

    • improved

      A delegated page that saves over the REST API or AJAX renders read-only.

    • fixed

      Granting a role access to a page handed that role the page’s capability everywhere in the admin, which could turn an Editor into a full administrator.

    • fixed

      Role restrictions had no effect on plugin pages.

Menu Editor questions

Menu Editor documentation

Yes. It is in the free plugin.

Hiding removes it from the menu. Role restrictions also block the page itself, including when someone types its URL.

Menu Editor works on the admin sidebar. For the menus visitors see, use Menu Visibility and Duplicate Menu: see all three WordPress menu tools.

Pairs well with

All Admin Tools

Get Menu Editor free

Menu Editor is in the free plugin on WordPress.org, alongside 34 other free modules you can switch on when you need them.

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