Easy Hide Admin Menu Items

75 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

At roughly 1,000 active installs the plugin is small but stable, and the score reflects solid relative performance for its size rather than mass adoption.

Update Freshness

24/25

Updated within days of this assessment and explicitly tested against WordPress 6.9.4, which is an unusually strong maintenance signal for a plugin of this size.

User Rating

15/15

A perfect 100 from 12 reviewers is encouraging, though the small sample size means the rating is a positive indicator rather than a definitive one.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads opened and zero resolved is neutral at best; the plugin is simple enough that few users need help, but there is no public track record of responsive troubleshooting.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Tested up to WordPress 6.9.4 and only requires PHP 7.0 and WordPress 5.9, so it will run on virtually any modern hosting environment.

Scores higher than 37% of indexed plugins

About

Simplify your WordPress admin experience effortlessly. Declutter menus, streamline workflow.

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2026-03-04 6:53am GMT

Requires WordPress 5.9.0+

Tested Up To 6.9.7

Requires PHP 7.0+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Easy Hide Admin Menu Items lets administrators remove or hide entries from the WordPress admin sidebar on a per-user-role basis. It is a focused utility for tidying up the backend, particularly for sites where contributors or staff only need access to a small slice of the dashboard. The plugin does not rename, reorder, or restructure menu items beyond hiding them.

Who It's For

This plugin is best suited for agencies and small business owners who hand out limited WordPress accounts to staff, clients, or guest authors and want to keep the sidebar uncluttered for those users. It also fits non-profits, clinics, restaurants, and educational sites where multiple low-permission accounts share a single install.

Who Should Skip It

If you are a single admin on a personal site, or you need to reorder, rename, or add custom menu items, this plugin is too narrow; look at Admin Menu Editor instead. Developers who prefer to hide menu items through code (a few lines in functions.php) also do not need it.

The Bottom Line

Easy Hide Admin Menu Items does one small job, hides admin menu items by role, and it does it on a well-maintained, broadly compatible codebase with a perfect user score. The catch is its tiny install base and zero public support history, so you are betting on a single-purpose tool from a small developer. For agencies handing out limited client accounts it is a sensible pick, but larger teams should weigh the more battle-tested Admin Menu Editor.

Related Plugins

Admin Menu Editor 86/100

Pick this when you also need to reorder, rename, or set per-item capabilities rather than just hide entries.

White Label CMS 85/100

Choose this when hiding menus is just one part of a broader rebranding of the WordPress backend for clients.

WP Data Access 86/100

Pick this when your main need is building admin dashboards, tables, and forms rather than tidying the menu sidebar.

Remove Dashboard Access 81/100

Choose this if you only want to block non-admins from the dashboard entirely, which is a heavier-handed approach than hiding individual menus.