Admin and Site Enhancements

Contributors: qriouslad
Donate link: https://bowo.io/asenha-sp-rdm
Tags: enhancements, tweaks, optimizations, tools
Requires at least: 4.6
Tested up to: 6.2.2
Stable tag: 5.1.0
Requires PHP: 5.6
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Duplicate post, post order, image resize, email via SMTP, admin menu editor, custom css / code, disable gutenberg and much more in a single plugin.

Description

Admin and Site Enhancements helps you to easily enhance various admin workflows and site aspects while replacing multiple plugins doing it.

Here's a review at v5.0.2 by Imran Siddiq @websquadron.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8GxOPGqKY

Here's a quick review by Nathan Wrigley @wpbuilds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwaWL6znuZg&t=3242s

Here's a walkthrough of the plugin at v4.8.2 by Nathan Ingram.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qXGDEBfMp0&t=2984s

What Users Say

"Full of useful features, works without problems." ~Krzysztof Płaneta

"Amazing how many separate plugins this replaces!" ~@yudayuda

"This plugin is what I have been waiting for to see for years!" ~@AlexGraphicD

"Great job! Saved me lots of time to add lots of plugins to get ready for my work. It's a relief to have everything streamlined and ready to go." ~Tao Sheng

"I really love how this plugin incorporates so many small fixes or tweaks that are needed with WordPress - I can now get rid of many other plugins." ~Dale Reardon

"This plugin is simply amazing. It easily replaces a dozen or more plugins I install on every website project. It is super lightweight, easy to use, and support has been wonderful and responsive. Highly recommended!" ~NetzzJD

"This plugin allows you to install and maintain one plugin instead of a host of smaller ones. My tests were all successful and I was happy to simplify my maintenance with fewer plugins." ~Vic Drover

"With this plugin, I can remove tons of plugins to reduce the possibility of plugin conflicts." ~@chiehliniceday

"It’s worth 10 stars (or more). This plugin eliminates the need to install many other plugins and also makes functions.php smaller since I have to insert fewer code snippets." ~Angelika Reisiger

"I was super skeptical that this plugin could do so much without any problems, but I was wrong... 100% recommended!" ~@scarlywebs

"Normally, I tend to steer clear of “all-in-one” plugins; however, I believe that the selection of tools incorporated into this plugin has been astutely deliberated, given that it nearly aligns entirely with the options I typically apply to each website." ~@cvladan

"I love the modular approach. And I love that the whole plugin - with all its potential functionality - is smaller in file-size than some of the plugins that it replaces, which do only one of these things. Thank you for the great work!" ~Dave

"[This] is a Swiss Army Knife in terms of features that will keep your WordPress clean and optimal." ~@samirhp

"Thank You for killing the dashboard SPAM!" ~@happyfrank73

"Great compilation of settings and options. It had quickly become one of my essential plugins." ~@unapersona

"Incredibly powerful and well organized. It’s a real accomplishment to put this many features into a plugin and still make it easy to navigate." ~Nathan Ingram

"...everything is clear, fast, consistent and lightweight." ~Peter

"Every single thing works as expected." ~Nathan Wrigley @wpbuilds

"Greatest plugin ever." ~@angelaustr

"p.s. There are bugs. This is software development after all and I'm the developer (as well as user). Please report if you found one, and I'll try to fix the next chance I get. Thanks!" ~Bowo

Content Management

• Content Duplication. Enable one-click duplication / clone / copy of pages, posts and custom posts. The corresponding taxonomy terms and post meta will also be duplicated.
• Content Order. Enable custom order for pages, posts and custom post types. Useful for displaying them in the desired order in wp-admin and on the frontend. e.g. projects, services, FAQs, team members, testimonials, etc.
• Media Replacement. Easily replace any type of media file with a new one while retaining the existing media ID, publish date and file name. So, no existing links will break.
• SVG Upload. Allow some or all user roles to upload SVG files, which will then be sanitized to keep things secure.
• External Permalinks. Enable pages, posts and/or custom post types to have permalinks that point to external URLs. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits. Compatible with links added using Page Links To.
• Open All External Links in New Tab. Force all links to external sites to open in new browser tab via target="_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
• Auto-Publish Posts with Missed Schedule. Trigger publishing of scheduled posts of all types marked with "missed schedule", anytime the site is visited.
• Enhance List Tables. Improve the usefulness of listing pages of various post types by adding / removing columns and elements.
  • Show the featured image column: in the list tables for pages and post types that support featured images.
  • Show the excerpt column: in the list tables for pages and post types that support excerpt.
  • Show the ID as a column or in the action rows: in the list tables for pages, all post types, all taxonomies, media, users and comments.
  • Show custom taxonomy dropdown filter(s): on the list tables of all post types for taxonomies that are hierarchical like post categories.
  • Remove the comments column: in in the list tables for pages, post types that support comments, and also media/attachments.
  • Remove the post tags column: in the list table for posts.

Admin Interface

• Hide Admin Notices. Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar.
• Admin Menu Editor / Organizer. Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally change menu item title or hide some items.
• Disable Dashboard Widgets. Clean up and speed up the dashboard by completely disabling some or all widgets. Disabled widgets won't load any assets nor show up under Screen Options.
• Clean Up Admin Bar. Remove various elements from the admin bar.
  • Remove WordPress logo/menu
  • Remove customize menu/link
  • Remove updates counter/link
  • Remove comments counter/link
  • Remove new content menu
  • Remove 'Howdy' text
  • Remove the Help tab and drawer
• Hide Admin Bar. Hide it on the front end for all or some user roles.

Log In / Log Out

• Change Login URL. Improve site security by using a custom login URL, e.g. www.example.com/backend
• Log In/Out Menu. Enable log in, log out and dynamic log in/out menu item for addition to any menu.
• Last Login Column. Log when users on the site last logged in and display the date and time in the users list table.
• Redirect After Login / Logout. Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login / logout.

Custom Code

• Custom Admin CSS. Add custom CSS on all admin pages for all user roles.
• Custom Frontend CSS. Add custom CSS on all frontend pages for all user roles.
• Insert <head>, <body> and <footer> Code. Easily insert <meta>, <link>, <script> and <style> tags, Google Analytics, Tag Manager, AdSense, Ads Conversion and Optimize code, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter pixels, etc.
• Custom Body Class. Add custom <body> class(es) on the singular view of some or all public post types. Compatible with classes already added using Custom Body Class plugin.
• Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt. Easily edit and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt content.
• Manage robots.txt. Easily edit and validate your robots.txt content.

Disable Components

• Disable Gutenberg. Disable the Gutenberg block editor for some or all applicable post types. Optionally disable frontend block styles / CSS files for the selected post types.
• Disable Block-Based Widgets Settings Screen. Restores the classic widgets settings screen when using a classic (non-block) theme.
• Disable Comments. Disable comments for some or all public post types. When disabled, existing comments will also be hidden on the frontend.
• Disable REST API. Disable REST API access for non-authenticated users and remove URL traces from <head>, HTTP headers and WP RSD endpoint.
• Disable Feeds. Disable all RSS, Atom and RDF feeds. This includes feeds for posts, categories, tags, comments, authors and search. Also removes traces of feed URLs from <head>.
• Disable All Updates. Completely disable core, theme and plugin updates and auto-updates. Will also disable update checks, notices and emails.
• Disable Smaller Components. Prevent smaller components from running or loading. Make the site more secure, load slightly faster and be more optimized for crawling by search engines.
  • Disable the generator <meta> tag in <head>, which discloses the WordPress version number. Older versions(s) might contain unpatched security loophole(s).
  • Disable the Windows Live Writer (WLW) manifest <link> tag in <head>. The WLW app was discontinued in 2017.
  • Disable the Really Simple Discovery (RSD) <link> tag in <head>. It's not needed if your site is not using pingback or remote (XML-RPC) client to manage posts.
  • Disable the default WordPress shortlink <link> tag in <head>. Ignored by search engines and has minimal practical use case. Usually, a dedicated shortlink plugin or service is preferred that allows for nice names in the short links and tracking of clicks when sharing the link on social media.
  • Disable loading of dashicons CSS and JS files on the front-end for public site visitors.
  • Disable emoji support for pages, posts and custom post types on the admin and frontend. The support is primarily useful for older browsers that do not have native support for it. Most modern browsers across different OSes and devices now have native support for it.

Security

• Limit Login Attempts. Prevent brute force attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts allowed per IP address.
• Obfuscate Author Slugs. Obfuscate publicly exposed author page URLs that shows the user slugs / usernames, e.g. sitename.com/author/username1/ into sitename.com/author/a6r5b8ytu9gp34bv/, and output 404 errors for the original URLs. Also obfuscates in /wp-json/wp/v2/users/ REST API endpoint.
• Disable XML-RPC. Protect your site from brute force, DOS and DDOS attacks via XML-RPC. Also disables trackbacks and pingbacks.

Optimizations

• Image Upload Control. Resize newly uploaded, large images to a smaller dimension and delete originally uploaded files. BMPs and non-transparent PNGs will be converted to JPGs and resized.
• Revisions Control. Prevent bloating the database by limiting the number of revisions to keep for some or all post types supporting revisions.
• Heartbeat Control. Modify the interval of the WordPress heartbeat API or disable it on admin pages, post creation/edit screens and/or the frontend. This will help reduce CPU load on the server.

Utilities

• SMTP Email Delivery. Use external SMTP service to ensure notification and transactional emails from your site are being delivered to inboxes.
• Multiple User Roles. Enable assignment of multiple roles during user account creation and editing. This maybe useful for working with roles not defined in WordPress core, e.g. from e-commerce or LMS plugins.
• View Admin as Role. View admin pages and the site (logged-in) as one of the non-administrator user roles.
• Password Protection. Password-protect the entire site to hide the content from public view and search engine bots / crawlers. Logged-in administrators can still access the site as usual.
• Maintenance Mode. Show a customizable maintenance page on the frontend while performing a brief maintenance to your site. Logged-in administrators can still view the site as usual.
• Redirect 404 to Homepage. Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages.

Admin and Site Enhancements will include more enhancements, tweaks and useful features in future versions. Please give feedback on must-have plugins or code snippets you enable on sites that you manage, and the functionalities will be considered for inclusion as well.

Give Back

• A nice review would be great!
• Give feedback and help improve future versions.
• Help translate plugin description on this page into your language.
• Github repo to contribute code.
• Sponsor my work with as little as USD 1, monthly or one-time.

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Screenshots

1. Content Management
2. Admin Interface
3. Log In | Log Out
4. Custom Code
5. Disable Components
6. Security
7. Optimizations
8. Utilities

Frequently Asked Questions

Why build this plugin?

Hoping that this is useful in reducing the number of plugins we install the first time we set up a site.

Changelog

Sponsor Admin and Site Enhancements

If this plugin has been useful for your personal project(s), paid dev work, client site(s) and or agency's workflow, please kindly consider sponsoring from as little as USD 1 (monthly or one-time). This helps ensure you're going to continue seeing new features and/or fixes, hopefully for years to come. Thank you!

5.1.0 (2023.06.04)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Block-Based Widgets Settings Screen. Restores the classic widgets settings screen when using a classic (non-block) theme. Props to @ruralinfo and @dvaer for suggesting this.
• [FIXED] UTILITIES >> SMTP Email Delivery: fixed an issue where 'from' email is using WP default [email protected] instead of the email defined in module settings. Props to @scarlywebs for reporting it and the continued help in testing.
• [ENHANCED] UTILITIES >> SMTP Email Delivery: added option to force the usage of the FROM name/email defined in module settings. Suggested by @scarlywebs.
• [FIXED] Custom, right-side footer text now only shows on the plugin's main settings page.

5.0.2.4 (2023.06.01)

• [FIXED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery: fixed an issue with encoding / decoding of stored password that prevented proper functioning of this module. Please re-enter your password and save changes.
• [FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection: fixed an issue with encoding / decoding of stored password that prevented proper functioning of this module. Please re-enter your password and save changes.

5.0.2.3 (2023.05.25)

• [FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL: URLs that start with the custom login slug no longer redirects to the login page. Props to @netzzjd for reporting it.

5.0.2.2 (2023.05.24)

• [FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL: URLs for lost password flow, i.e. password reset flow, are now accessible when this module is enabled. It will no longer redirect to the not_found (404) page. Props to @scarlywebs for reporting it and help with testing all the way.

5.0.2 (2023.05.09)

• [FIXED] Utilities >> View Admin as Role: is now only accessible / usable for administrators.
• [ENHANCE] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: improved description and UI for better clarity.
• [POLISH] General code polish to resolve several PHP warnings.

5.0.1 (2023.04.29)

• [FIXED] WordPress Newsboard link in footer showing up on all wp-admin pages. Now will only show up on the plugin's main page.

5.0.0 (2023.04.29)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Content Order. Enable custom ordering of various content types. Useful for displaying them in the desired order in wp-admin and on the frontend. e.g. projects, services, FAQs, team members, etc.
• [FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection: Fix PHP Warning error. Props to @cvladan for reporting it.
• [CHANGED] Content Management >> Page and Post Duplication module has been renamed to "Content Duplication".
• [ADDED] Translate link on plugin page's header and in the .org plugin description page. Please consider helping to translate the plugin description (a.k.a. README). There are about 100 strings/sentences in it. This will help expand the reach of Admin and Site Enhancements into people who read/speak your language. Special props to Angelika Reisiger , General Translation Editor for Deutsch (German) #de_DE, for tackling translation of the plugin description into German and German (formal).
• [ADDED] Link to WordPress Newsboard in plugin page's footer. This is another thing I created back in 2014 and is still working to aggregate the latest news, articles, tutorials, podcasts and videos from 100+ WordPress-centric sources.

4.9.3 (2023.04.22)

• [FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable REST API: fix for error when trying to save edits in Gutenberg editor when Disable REST API module is turned on. Props to @alexgraphicd for reporting it.

4.9.2 (2023.04.22)

• [FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: fix for certain scenarios where comment form is still shown despite commenting being disabled on the post type. Props to @crazyserb for reporting it, providng temporary admin access, as well as screenshots to help with troubleshooting!

4.9.1 (2023.04.19)

• [ENHANCEMENT] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices. LearnDash pages was showing up notices below header. This fix will now move them into the hidden, toggleable notices panel.

4.9.0 (2023.04.16)

• [ENHANCEMENT] Content Management >> External Permalinks. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will now be added to external permalinks for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
• [ADDED] Content Management >> Open All External Links in New Tab. Force all links to external sites to open in new browser tab via target="_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits.

4.8.3 (2023.04.15)

• [FIXED] Content Management >> Content Duplication: fixed isses when duplicating pages built with Oxygen and Bricks builder. May also solve similar issues with other page builders. Please try this on your page builder installation and report in the forum if you're still experiencing issues.

4.8.2 (2023.04.03)

• [FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: fix for some menu items missing / being hidden in the menu item sortables. Props to @chrisplaneta for reporting.

4.8.1 (2023.04.03)

• [FIXED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: now hides notices on some plugins' pages where an extra div exist above the notice divs.
• [FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL: fix an issue where sometimes successful login would redirect to /not_found/ URL.
• [ENHANCEMENT] Content Management >> Media Replacement: added browser cache busting via jQuery to ensure the new image is shown on the media/attachment edit page after performing replacement. Elsewhere on wp-admin and on the front end, a hard reload is still needed to flush out browser cache for the old image.

4.8.0 (2023.04.02)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Multiple User Roles: Enable assignment of multiple roles during user account creation and editing. This maybe useful for working with roles not defined in WordPress core, e.g. from e-commerce or LMS plugins.

4.7.4 (2023.03.05)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables >> Show ID in Action Rows: on the list tables for pages, all post types, all taxonomies, media, users and comments. Props to @cvladan for the feature suggestion.

4.7.3 (2023.03.03)

• [FIXED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control: "Unexpected response" error in the media uploader when uploading non-JPG files.

4.7.2 (2023.02.25)

• [FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Emojis now properly disables emojis in admin pages.

4.7.1 (2023.02.24)

• [CHANGED] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode. When maintenance mode is enabled, an admin bar icon is shown as an indicator.
• [CHANGED] Utilities >> Password Protection. Change background color of admin bar status icon from green to red, to better indicate that the site is (currently) inaccessible to the general public.

4.7.0 (2023.02.24)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode. Show a customizable maintenance page on the frontend while performing a brief maintenance to your site. Logged-in administrators can still view the site as usual.
• [CHANGED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Dashicons CSS and JS now excludes the login page. This ensures the login page CSS styles is correctly loaded.
• [CHANGED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery. Slight improvement to copy/description for improved clarity.

4.6.0 (2023.02.22)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery. Use external SMTP service to ensure notification and transactional emails from your site are being delivered to inboxes.

4.5.0 (2023.02.17)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Clean Up Admin Bar >> Remove the Help tab and drawer.
• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components. Prevent smaller components from running or loading. Make the site more secure and load slightly faster. This includes disabling the generator <meta> tag, the Windows Live Writer (WLW) manifest <link> tag, the Really Simple Discovery (RSD) <link> tag and the WordPress shortlink <link> tag in <head>, as well as disabling dashicons CSS and JS files for site visitors, and emoji support for pages, posts and custom post types.

4.4.0 (2023.02.05)

• [ADDED] Custom Code >> Custom Body Class. Add custom <body> class(es) on the singular view of some or all public post types. Compatible with classes already added using Custom Body Class plugin.

4.3.1 (2023.02.05)

• [CHANGED] Content Management >> Media Replace option is no longer shown on the grid view of the media library. It will only show up on the attachment edit page which can be reached from both the list view via "Edit or Replace Media" link and the grid view media frame's "Edit more details" link.

4.3.0 (2023.01.30)

• [ADDED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control. Resize newly uploaded, large images to a smaller dimension and delete originally uploaded files. BMPs and non-transparent PNGs will be converted to JPGs and resized.
• [CHANGED] Revisions Control is now under the Optimizations category.
• [CHANGED] View Admin as Role is now under the Utilities category.
• [CHANGED] Improve title of features to be shorter and more consistent across categories.

4.2.2 (2023.01.24)

• [FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets. Fixed a fatal error issue when there's a widget with priority 'high'. Props to @samirhp for reporting it.

4.2.1 (2023.01.23)

• [FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets. Fixed missing dashboard widgets list when first trying to activate the feature. Also fixes PHP fatal error when trying to view the dashboard when the feature is activated under such scenario. Props to @samirhp for reporting it.

4.2.0 (2023.01.23)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets. Clean up and speed up the dashboard by completely disabling some or all widgets. Disabled widgets won't load any assets nor show up under Screen Options.

4.1.0 (2023.01.16)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Password Protection. Password-protect the entire site to hide the content from public view and search engine bots / crawlers. Logged-in administrators can still access normally.

4.0.1 (2023.01.12)

• [FIXED] Content Management >> Enable SVG Upload: Fixed a bug where uploaded, non-SVG media files does not have metadata generated when Enable SVG Upload is enabled.

4.0.0 (2023.01.04)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable All Updates. Completely disable core, theme and plugin updates and auto-updates. Will also disable update checks, notices and emails.

3.9.2 (2023.01.03)

• [FIXED] Custom Code >> Manage robots.txt. Fixed "Undefined variable" issue reported by kwbrayton. Also make this feature work on scenarios where an actual robots.txt file exists, not just the virtual one created by default, by WordPress. In such case, the robots.txt file will be renamed to robots_txt_backup_{timestamp}.txt when this feature is enabled. Vice versa, when the feature is disabled, the backup file will be renamed back to robots.txt, so it will be in use again as it were.

3.9.1 (2022.12.29)

• [FIXED] Content Management >> Enable External Permalinks. Fixed an issue where default WordPress permalink for a post loads white, empty screen when no external permalink has been set for the post.

3.9.0 (2022.12.29)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enable External Permalinks. Enable pages, posts and/or custom post types to have permalinks that point to external URLs. Compatible with links added using Page Links To.

3.8.0 (2022.12.27)

• [ADDED] Optimizations >> Enable Heartbeat Control. Modify the interval of the WordPress heartbeat API or disable it on admin pages, post creation/edit screens and/or the frontend. This will help reduce CPU load on the server.

3.7.0 (2022.12.25)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Revisions Control. Prevent bloating the database by limiting the number of revisions to keep for some or all post types supporting revisions.

3.6.1 (2022.12.22)

• [CHANGED] Custom Code >> Manage robots.txt. Fixed an issue where code editor was not rendered properly upon clicking the Custom Code tab.

3.6.0 (2022.12.22)

• [CHANGED] Added "Log In | Log Out" and "Custom Code" categories. Recategorizes relevant features under these new categories.
• [ADDED] Log In | Log Out >> Enable Last Login Column. Log when users on the site last logged in and display the date and time in the users list table.

3.5.0 (2022.12.19)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Manage robots.txt. Easily edit and validate your robots.txt content.

3.4.0 (2022.12.16)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Log In/Out Menu. Enable log in, log out and dynamic log in/out menu item for addition to any menu. Depending on the user's logged-in status, the menu item will show up, disappear or change.

3.3.0 (2022.12.12)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Insert <head>, <body> and <footer> Code. Easily insert <meta>, <link>, <script> and <style> tags, Google Analytics, Tag Manager, AdSense, Ads Conversion and Optimize code, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter pixels, etc.
• [CHANGED] Utilities >> Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt is now a single settings field.

3.2.0 (2022.12.12)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt: Easily edit and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt content. Please backup existing ads.txt and app-ads.txt content and remove those files before copying the original content into the ads.txt and app-ads.txt manager in the Utilities tab. If no ads.txt / app-ads.txt files exist in the root directory of your WordPress installation, you can immediately add content for both files.

3.1.0 (2022.12.11)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Auto-Publishing of Posts with Missed Schedule: Trigger publishing of scheduled posts of all types marked with "missed schedule", anytime the site is visited. Uses Transients API to reduce load to the DB on busy sites. Will only query the DB once every 15 minutes (at most).

3.0.6 (2022.12.08)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Enqueue jQuery UI widget.min.js for WP version less than 5.6.0. This ensures the feature works for those WP versions.

3.0.5 (2022.12.08)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Enqueue the minified version of jQuery UI scripts, as older versions of WP do not have the unminified version.

3.0.4 (2022.12.07)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Substantially lower priorities of actions that handles rendering of custom menu order, custom menu title and hiding of menu items. This is so that menu items added late by active plugins and theme are handled properly.

3.0.3 (2022.12.07)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Make sure menu item sortables reflect custom menu order saved in options, especially when this feature is re-enabled. Remove all HTMl tags and content inside them from menu item titles in the sortables.

3.0.2 (2022.12.07)

• [CHANGED] Hide stubborn notices appearing inside the admin page header (via CSS).

3.0.1 (2022.12.01)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Make sure newer menu items added by newly installed plugins or activated theme are showing up towards the end of the admin menu and the menu item sortables. Comments and updates counters are now hidden. Sortables for menu separators have been faded out to make actual menu items stand out more.
• [CHANGED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: Ensure trackbacks metabox is also hidden on edit screens of post types where commenting is disabled.

3.0.0 (2022.11.30)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Feeds: Disable all RSS, Atom and RDF feeds. This includes feeds for posts, categories, tags, comments, authors and search. Also removes traces of feed URLs from <head>.

2.9.0 (2022.11.30)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable REST API: Disable REST API access for non-authenticated users and remove URL traces from <head>, HTTP headers and WP RSD endpoint.

2.8.3 (2022.11.29)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Fix for missing Show All toggle in certain scenarios.

2.8.2 (2022.11.29)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Allow customizing menu item title, for menu items added by plugins or the active theme, i.e. not from WordPress core.

2.8.1 (2022.11.28)

• [CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Fixed the issue when menu items are no longer shown upon saving. This happened when Admin Menu Organizer was enabled and directly saved without making any changes to the menu order first.

2.8.0 (2022.11.28)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg: Disable the Gutenberg block editor for some or all applicable post types. Optionally disable frontend block styles / CSS files for the selected post types.

2.7.0 (2022.11.27)

• [ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments: Disable comments for some or all public post types. When disabled, existing comments will also be hidden on the frontend.
• [CHANGED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: Improved styling of empty datatable, i.e. when there is no failed login attempts logged.
• [CHANGED] Settings tab position is now saved to browser cookie, so it persists upon saving changes or revisiting it from elsewhere in wp-admin.
• [CHANGED] Some code refactoring to make logical separation and categorization of features clearer. CodeMirror and DataTables assets loading are also moved

2.6.0 (2022.11.19)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enable SVG Upload: Allow some or all user roles to upload SVG files, which will then be sanitized to keep things secure.

2.5.0 (2022.11.18)

• [ADDED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts: Prevent brute force attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts allowed per IP address.
• [CHANGED] Security >> Custom Login URL feature has been made compatible with Limit Login Attempts feature.
• [CHANGED] Security >> Change Login URL now works with the interim login modal window, the one that pops up when user is logged out in the background.
• [CHANGED] Security >> Change Login URL adds another process to ensure user is redirected to the dashboard after successful login. It was redirecting to the /not_found/ (404) page in rare occasions as reported by @vdrover.
• [CHANGED] Utilities >> Redirect After Login will correctly override default login redirection by Change Login URL.
• [CHANGED] Improve code comments throughout.

2.4.0 (2022.11.10)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Custom Frontend CSS: Add custom CSS on all frontend pages for all user roles.

2.3.0 (2022.11.09)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Custom Admin CSS: Add custom CSS on all admin pages for all user roles.

2.2.0 (2022.11.09)

• [ADDED] Security >> Disable XML-RPC: Protect your site from brute force, DOS and DDOS attacks via XML-RPC. Also disables trackbacks and pingbacks.
• [ADDED] Expand/collapse toggle for feature settings that takes up longer vertical space, e.g. Admin Menu Customizer.
• [CHANGED] Refactor code around plugin settings page. Now uses separate classes for sections and fields registration, for sanitization of field values and for rendering the fields on the admin page.

2.1.0 (2022.11.08)

• [ADDED] Security >> Obfuscate Author Slugs: Obfuscate publicly exposed author page URLs that shows the user slugs / usernames, e.g. sitename.com/author/username1/ into sitename.com/author/a6r5b8ytu9gp34bv/, and output 404 errors for the original URLs. Also obfuscates in /wp-json/wp/v2/users/ REST API endpoint. Props to pull request from Wahyu Arief @wahyuief and functions from Smart User Slug Hider .

2.0.0 (2022.11.06)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer: Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally hide some items.

1.9.0 (2022.11.03)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide or Modify Elements: Easily simplify or customize various admin UI elements, starting with the admin bar.
• [CHANGED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables: this combines previously separate features related to list tables for various post types.

1.8.0 (2022.11.03)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> View Admin as Role: View admin pages and the site (logged-in) as one of the non-administrator user roles.

1.7.0 (2022.10.31)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect 404 to Homepage: Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages.

1.6.0 (2022.10.31)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect After Logout: Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after logout.

1.5.0 (2022.10.30)

• [ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect After Login: Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login.

1.4.0 (2022.10.30)

• [ADDED] Security >> Change Login URL: allow for setting a custom login URL to improve site security.

1.3.0 (2022.10.29)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Bar: Hide it on the front end for all or some user roles.

1.2.0 (2022.10.28)

• [ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices: Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar.

1.1.0 (2022.10.22)

• [ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Media Replacement: Enable easy replacement of any type of media file with a new one while retaining the existing media ID and file name.

1.0.0 (2022.10.17)

• Initial stable release.