HideAway Admin

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 unless you opt in. 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.

• When you activate the plugin, Freemius may ask whether you want to share some basic data with it. If you skip it, nothing is sent.
• If you opt in, 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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