by
Dan Knauss
5 (1 reviews)
Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor
Hide admin menu items per user role, rename them, reorder them, swap their icons — an inline admin menu editor you drive right on the menu itself.
Maestro ranks #25,640 among WordPress.org plugins with 20+ active installations, is #2,625 of 6,651 in the Media category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Oct 29, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1
v1.11.0
Current Version v1.11.0
Updated 1 week ago
Last Update on 29 Oct, 2026
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- Version
- 1.11.0
- Last Updated
- Oct 29, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.4+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- Dan Knauss
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Maestro: The Inline Admin Menu Editor
Yes. In Edit Menu, open Settings, export the JSON file, then review and import it on the destination. Import replaces portable menu settings and reports missing roles and menu items. People rules and visibility groups are excluded from exports; those already on the destination are preserved. Hiding remains cosmetic and does not change page access.
No — and this is important. Hiding an item is cosmetic: it removes the link from the admin menu but does not stop anyone from reaching the page by typing or bookmarking its URL. Real access is governed by each page's registered capability. To truly block all access to a page, use a capability manager such as User Role Editor or PublishPress Capabilities.
Everyone. Maestro stores one global configuration that applies to all users. Visibility is the exception: you can hide items from chosen roles, or from named individuals, so what each person sees can differ. The rename/reorder/icon changes themselves are global.
Yes. Press Preview as (the screen button in the editor toolbar), choose a role and press Preview. The Dashboard shows that role's menu, with your rules for the role applied, under a read-only banner with Exit preview. You stay signed in as yourself and nothing is saved. It is an approximation: rules for specific people or visibility groups, capabilities given to individual users, people with several roles, and plugins that check the user directly can differ. Network super admins on multisite cannot preview.
Yes. Alongside the role lists, the visibility popover has a search box for people. Type a name, pick them, and the item disappears from that person's menu only — everyone else with the same role still sees it. You can target several people, and on an item with children you can hide the sub-items per person while the parent stays visible. Use it when a role is the wrong unit: one editor on a team of editors who
to many items, a role is probably the better fit. Two notes. Targeting your own account is allowed — Maestro warns you, and you
no hide rule can remove it. And on a multisite network, network super admins are exempt from person-targeted hides (role-targeted hides still apply to them, as they always have).
A visibility group is a named list of people that you can tick in any item's visibility popover, the way you tick a role. Create it under Visibility groups in the editing toolbar, add people with the same search box, and tick it on the items it should hide. Who is in it is read on every page load, so adding or removing someone takes effect right away on every item the group hides, without touching those items. A visibility group is not access control. It sounds more like a permission than a role checkbox does, so to be plain: it only removes links from those people's admin menu. They can still open every one of those pages by URL, and no capability is granted or removed. If people must not reach a page, use a capability manager. Use a group when a role is the wrong unit and you would otherwise add the same few people to many items, for example a client's staff who share the Editor role with your own team. If a role already matches the people you mean, use the role: it is simpler, and it is how WordPress itself groups people. Groups are made and edited by people who can list users (administrators, by default); anyone else using the editor does not see them, and their saves leave groups alone. On a multisite network, network super admins are exempt from group hides, as they are from person-targeted hides.
Yes. The hide by role feature includes the administrator role. However, you have to be an administrator to use Maestro's features, so if you hide a menu item from administrators, you are hiding it from yourself as well. Remember that this is cosmetic, not a permission change, and you can reset any or all of the changes made in Maestro at any time.
Yes. Any role registered on the site — including custom roles from User Role Editor, Members, and similar plugins — appears automatically in the visibility control.
