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Visual Admin Customizer

by Janis Elsts

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Description

Hide almost any part of the WordPress admin area by using a visual, point-and-click editor. You can hide things from all users or only from specific roles. You can also add your own CSS to the WordPress admin (per role).

This plugin does not have a fixed list of things it can customize. Instead, it displays a live version of the WordPress dashboard and lets you select the parts of the page that you want to hide. You can hide almost any unique element (but see the “Limitations” section below).

Here are a few examples of things you can hide:
* Dashboard widgets.
* Post editor meta boxes.
* Custom fields.
* Screen options.
* Individual buttons.
* Text boxes, checkboxes, dropdown lists and most other form fields.

Requirements

  • PHP 5.3 and up.
  • A modern browser like Firefox, Chrome or IE 9 and up.

Limitations

  • This is not a security tool. The changes it makes are cosmetic. Users who are familiar with web development can bypass them. Don’t use it for security-critical tasks.
  • It’s not great at hiding dynamic content like dialog windows, pop-up menus, or any content that changes frequently or depending on the logged-in user.
  • It’s intended for customizing unique things like specific meta boxes or buttons. If you want to do something like hide all “Edit” links on a page or change the appearance of all “Save Changes” buttons, you’ll have to write the CSS code yourself or use a different plugin.
  1. Install the plugin through the WordPress “Plugins” screen, or upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/visual-admin-customizer directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” screen.
  3. To start customizing the admin panel, go to “Tools -> Admin Customizer”.
  1. Plugin configuration screen

    Plugin configuration screen

  2. Add custom CSS to the WordPress admin

    Add custom CSS to the WordPress admin

Perfect!

By gama2005 on April 17, 2024

Thank's works well!

Finally!

By frankbaku on January 8, 2021

I looked for this plugin many years. Thanks for great plugin! 🙂

PERFECTION!

By noyzen on December 20, 2020

Hi, i just logged into wordpress to write this review. this plugin is exactly what i (and i think a lot of people) need for easy and quick css customizing wordpress admin for customers WITH ABILITY TO LIMIT EDITS TO ROLE AND PAGES! and it's free... 🙂 this is really perfect. good job!!

Ben realizzato

By stefanoulivieri on February 20, 2020

Uno strumento di editing per il backend davvero ben fatto. Rimuove e/o nasconde praticamente di tutto ed è semplice da utilizzare.

create style no code please.

By adamids on December 23, 2019

create style no code please.

Excellent

By radik19 on August 5, 2019

That's what I need.

So simple, yet so powerful

By lbretth on May 29, 2019

After spending hours wading through code and testing various plugins to customise the WP back-end and particularly the user profile page I stumbled across this plugin. It's perfect! It's very simple to use, yet extremely powerful and if i'd found it sooner would've saved me hours with code snippets.

One of My Absolute FAVORITE Plugins!

By mikeyb25 on July 14, 2018

I am not sure how I am the FIRST person to reivew this plugin. It is absolutely incredible. For anyone who has clients who use the WordPress Dashboard but wants to take extra step to make the client's experience easier and more cutomzied, this plugin is for you. My favorite feature is the ability to change the CSS, but more so, although I always have a more "Admin"-level login for my clients, I do create other logins for them so they can more easily just find what they need. You can completely white label your dashboard, make your clients' job easier and be a total Rock Star in thier eyes. Install this plugin, WOW your clients!

1.0.4

  • Added a potential workaround for a JS error about (…).split not being a function.
  • Fixed a severe performance bug that could cause high JS memory usage and browser freezing when trying to hide things on pages where the body tag has too many classes.
  • Tested up to WordPress 5.5.

1.0.3

  • Fixed a PHP 5.3 compatibility issue.
  • Tested up to WordPress 5.2.

1.0.2

  • Fixed a potential conflict that could cause PHP errors like this: “An exception occurred: Call to undefined method Ajaw_v1_ActionBuilder::permissionCallback()”.

1.0.1

  • Fixed a bug where the “Changes” table could overflow the pop-up panel when the selector got too long.
  • Fixed a fatal error on admin pages that don’t have a valid WP_Screen instance (e.g. various pop-ups).
  • Fixed several minor bugs related to admin notices.
  • Tested up to WordPress 4.9.

1.0

  • Initial release.
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