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Notifications Off-Canvas turns WordPress's admin notices into a proper WordPress admin notifications panel — a single slide-in sidebar triggered by a bell in the admin bar, instead of a stack piling up…
Explore module BackendLocal Avatar
Local Avatar lets every logged-in user, including roles with no media library access, upload their own profile picture stored directly on the site — replacing Gravatar everywhere an avatar appears, with an…
Explore module BackendHide Admin Bar
Hide Admin Bar hides the WordPress admin bar for whichever roles you choose, on the front end, in wp-admin, or both — so a shop's own customers stop seeing a toolbar that…
Explore module BackendDisable Menu Collapse
Disable Menu Collapse hides the collapse button and keeps the admin sidebar fully expanded, so it never shrinks to an unlabeled column of icons.
Explore module BackendDisable Dashboard Widgets
Disable Dashboard Widgets lets you turn off any widget on the WordPress dashboard, for every user, so it stops rendering entirely instead of being hidden one Screen Options click at a time.
Explore module BackendDisable Admin Bar Items
Disable Admin Bar Items lets you turn off any entry in the admin bar, WordPress's own or added by another plugin, so it stops rendering entirely instead of being hidden with CSS.
Explore module BackendDashboard Columns
Dashboard Columns fixes the WordPress dashboard to a set number of columns, from one to four, for every user, instead of leaving it to whatever Screen Options each person happened to set.
Explore module BackendCustom Menu Width
Custom Menu Width resizes the admin sidebar to fit long labels or a translated interface, and automatically repositions any third-party panel still expecting WordPress's hardcoded 160px.
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