Stop scrolling a junk drawer. Start working in a workspace.
Every plugin you install bolts another item onto your WordPress admin menu. Cleaner Admin Menus turns that sprawl back into something deliberate: drag the real menu into the order you think in, collapse related items into groups, hide what you never touch, and hand every role on the site a layout that makes sense for their job.
Edit the menu, on the menu
No settings page that mirrors the thing you’re trying to fix. Click Edit Menu in the admin bar and the sidebar itself becomes the editor — drag to reorder, multi-select with the shortcuts you already know (Shift+Click, Cmd/Ctrl+Click), group or hide in bulk, and save. Saved layouts render server-side, so there’s no flicker and no JavaScript reshuffle on page load.
Groups: the feature the admin menu always needed
Select five scattered SEO-and-analytics items and fold them into one collapsible “Marketing” group — as a hover dropdown or an inline accordion, with its own label, icon, and accent color. Works on the admin toolbar too, with the same editor.
Built for teams and client sites
- Per-user layouts — everyone gets their own arrangement; nobody stomps on anyone else.
- Role defaults — give Editors a sane starting layout they can still tweak.
- Forced role layouts — lock a curated, client-proof menu to a role. No override, no accidental chaos.
- Presets — save, share, export, and import full layouts. Build one clean client layout and ship it to every site you manage.
It doesn’t break anything
Cleaner Admin Menus reorganizes the menu WordPress already rendered — third-party items keep their icons, update badges, and behavior. Hiding is display-level only: no capabilities touched, no URLs blocked, nothing deleted. Deactivate the plugin and the stock menu returns untouched.
What’s included
- Live drag-and-drop editing for the admin sidebar and admin toolbar
- Collapsible groups (dropdown or accordion) with icons and color accents
- Hide/show items in bulk, view-hidden toggle, one-click reset
- Per-user preferences, role defaults, and forced role layouts
- Preset manager with shared presets and JSON export/import
- REST API for automation; keyboard- and screen-reader-accessible editor
- One year of updates and priority support