About this plugin
Dran Admin Cleaner helps you simplify the WordPress admin area by removing unnecessary interface clutter without changing user roles or capabilities.
Hide unwanted admin menu items, dashboard widgets, and toolbar items. Organize admin notices and add soft page locks to reduce accidental access to selected admin pages.
Whether you manage your own website, maintain multiple WordPress sites, or build websites for clients, Dran Admin Cleaner helps create a cleaner, more focused admin experience.
Important: Dran Admin Cleaner is not a security plugin, role editor, or capability manager. Hiding a menu item only changes the admin interface. Page Locks help reduce accidental direct access, but WordPress capabilities remain the real permission system.
Key Features
- Menu Cleaner: hide, rename, reorder, and quickly lock WordPress admin menu items.
- Page Locks: redirect selected admin pages and show a notice when a matched user tries to open them directly.
- Preview: review the saved admin menu experience by role or user before handoff.
- Dashboard Cleaner: hide selected Dashboard widgets and the WordPress Welcome Panel.
- Admin Bar Cleaner: discover toolbar items from WordPress and plugins, browse parents and submenus in a searchable tree, and hide selected items while keeping account and logout controls protected.
- Notice Cleaner: collapse non-critical notices into a tray while leaving warnings, errors, and update nags visible.
- Presets: start from common handoff setups, then adjust the rules.
- Recovery: owner bypass, Safe Mode, and Recovery URL support help avoid lockout.
- Backup / Restore: export and restore JSON backups for review and same-site recovery.
- Audit Log: keep a lightweight record of important configuration changes.
- Agency Guide: built-in documentation for setup and client handoff.
What It Does Not Do
- It does not modify WordPress core files.
- It does not rewrite user roles or capabilities.
- It does not provide absolute security against administrators.
- It does not hide critical warnings aggressively.
- It does not send data to external services or collect telemetry.
Languages
Dran Admin Cleaner includes bundled translations for multiple languages.
Currently available:
- Japanese (ja)
- Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
Translations cover the plugin settings interface and the built-in Agency Guide.
WordPress uses the selected user language when available, otherwise the site language is used. Custom menu labels and saved Page Lock messages remain as configured; changing the WordPress language does not rewrite saved rules.
Privacy
Dran Admin Cleaner stores plugin settings, cleanup rules, recovery token hashes, selected user IDs, detected dashboard widget IDs, and lightweight audit entries in the local WordPress database.
For owners and authorized plugin managers, it also caches detected toolbar item IDs, labels, and parent IDs locally, with up to 300 items per user. The cache expires one day after its most recent update. Browser discovery sends these items only to the same WordPress site.
The plugin does not send data to external services.