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title: "Admin Menu Manager"
date: 2026-07-07
modified: 2026-08-31
author: "Miriam Schwab"
url: "https://miriamschwab.me/plugins/admin-menu-manager/"
markdown_url: "https://miriamschwab.me/plugins/admin-menu-manager.md"
type: ms_plugin
excerpt: "Every plugin I install adds its own item to the wp-admin sidebar. This can lead to quite a messy menu area, and it started to bother me. I wanted a..."
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Every plugin I install adds its own item to the wp-admin sidebar. This can lead to quite a messy menu area, and it started to bother me. I wanted a cleaner UI just like I get with other web apps.

The plugin lets me drag items into the order I actually use, hide the ones I rarely touch, and group related tools under a custom heading instead of scrolling past them every day. It’s a single file with no build process and no dependency beyond the jQuery UI Sortable that already ships with WordPress.