Dran Admin Cleaner helps agencies, freelancers, and site administrators simplify the WordPress admin experience without changing user roles or capabilities.
The plugin is built for client handoff workflows. It reduces visual noise in wp-admin, keeps common tasks easier to find, and adds soft guardrails around risky admin pages.
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: hide selected toolbar 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 run remote requests, tracking, or telemetry.
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.
The plugin does not send data to external services.
Screenshots
Menu Cleaner lets you hide, rename, and reorder WordPress admin menus and submenus from a visual menu tree.
Notice Cleaner collapses low-risk informational and success notices while keeping critical notices visible.
Admin Bar Cleaner lets you hide selected toolbar items while keeping protected account and logout items available.
Dashboard Cleaner removes selected Dashboard widgets and the Welcome Panel without blocking Dashboard access.
Page Locks block direct access to selected wp-admin pages using configurable rules and target references.
Backup / Restore exports and restores Dran Admin Cleaner settings and rules using JSON backups.