About this plugin
Handing a site over to a client? HideAway Admin hides every admin menu and submenu they don’t need, role by role, and makes sure the hidden screens stay closed: typing the address or using an old bookmark shows a clear “you don’t have access” message instead of the screen.
What it does
- Hide menus and submenus by role. The list is your real dashboard menu, in its real order, including everything your theme and plugins add.
- Hidden really means closed. Hidden screens can’t be opened by typing their address, and neither can the loose screens of a hidden plugin.
- Live preview. See exactly how the menu will look for each role before you save, taking each role’s permissions into account.
- Temporary unlock, just for you. Bring everything back into view for a while on your own account. Nobody else notices, and it hides itself again.
- A tidy toolbar. Shortcuts to hidden screens disappear from the admin bar too.
- A starter template. Hide the usual suspects (Tools, Settings, Plugins, Appearance, Users, Updates) in one click, and see what it will tick before applying it.
- You choose where the plugin lives. In the Settings menu, in the toolbar, or both.
- A dark theme, and ready for translation at translate.wordpress.org.
No tracking: nothing is sent unless you start the Pro trial, buy Pro or activate a license. See “External services” below.
HideAway Admin Pro
For agencies and freelancers who build client sites for a living:
- Drag menus and submenus into the order you want.
- Hide things from one specific person, not just a whole role.
- Hide dashboard boxes and the Help and Screen Options tabs.
- Send each role to its own screen when they log in.
- More templates, and save your own.
- Export your setup and import it on another site, reviewing what it brings before applying it.
- An activity log that shows exactly what changed, and lets you undo it.
- White label, and a lock so only your account can change the plugin.
- WP-CLI commands and multisite support.
- 12 ready-made translations, with a language switcher just for this plugin.
Try Pro free for 14 days, no credit card required: start the trial from the plugin’s own screen, in Settings > HideAway Admin.
External services
HideAway Admin uses the Freemius SDK to offer the free trial and the Pro upgrade, and to manage Pro licenses and updates.
- The free version doesn’t ask you to share any data and sends nothing to Freemius while you use it.
- If you start the trial, buy Pro or activate a license, the plugin sends Freemius basic data such as your name and email, your site’s address, and your WordPress, PHP and plugin versions, so that licenses and updates can work.
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