Admin Optimizer is a modular all-in-one WordPress plugin built to improve performance, harden security, and streamline your admin workflow — without the bloat of installing a dozen separate plugins.
Whether you need to clean your database, manage redirects, inject custom code snippets, protect your login page, or build custom post types, Admin Optimizer covers it all in one place.
Key highlights:
- Improve site speed with database optimization and script management
- Strengthen security with 2FA, login protection, and attack blocking
- Manage URL redirects and monitor 404 errors from the dashboard
- Add custom CSS, JavaScript, HTML, and PHP code snippets without a child theme
- Build forms, custom fields, and custom post types without extra plugins
- Send reliable transactional email via SMTP
Instead of installing 10+ plugins, you can enable only the modules you need — all from a single, lightweight plugin.
Using The WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the 'Add New' in the plugins dashboard
- Search for 'Admin Optimizer'
- Click 'Install Now'
- Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard
Uploading in WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the 'Add New' in the plugins dashboard
- Navigate to the 'Upload' area
- Select
admin-optimizer.zip from your computer
- Click on 'Install Now' button
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
Using FTP
- Download
admin-optimizer.zip
- Extract the
admin-optimizer directory to your computer
- Upload the
admin-optimizer folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
2.3.1
- Added: Helper text in Redirect Manager to clarify trailing slash and case-sensitivity behavior.
- Improved: Custom post status save behavior is more consistent.
- Fixed: Custom Login URL no longer redirects to a 404 page after a password reset.
- Added: Direct email sending capability for SMTP Email module, and Pro Profile support.
2.3.0
- Bump up minimum PHP to 8.1.0
- Updated: form builder output with bootstrap class name
- Added: Presets to Form Builder module (Pro only)
- Added: SEO-Manager and AI-Connectors module (Pro only)
- Added new builtin shortcodes for Custom Code module
- Added: HTML code snippet now supports shortcode input
- Fixed: Custom Fields & Types display error
- Fixed: Lock modified date field no longer show up on non-public post types
2.2.0
- Added: Custom Code module
- Added: Redirect Manager module
- Added: Import/export options for Form Builder
- Added: Preset options for robots.txt.
- Fixed: a bug in Custom Login URL that return 404 when checking email.
- Updated: reorganized modules in various sections.
- Bump up Requires at least to 5.9
2.1.1
- Fixed: a bug where the limit image size Setings page is not shown
2.1.0
- Added: new Form Builder module
2.0.1
- Added: SMTP Provider for SMTP Email module
- Added: "Force From" toggle in SMTP Email module
- Updated: WordPress 7.0 theme support
2.0.0
- Revamp the new categorization of modules
- Fixed: Fixed a 2FA invalid login esc_html bug
- Updated: switched ToTP provider to have less dependency on third-party tool
- Fixed: rename Post Republisher to Content Refresh
1.9.0
- Added: new Preset feature
- Updated: Improved UI for Admin Optimizer
1.8.0
- Added: Revamp new UI for Admin Optimizer
- Added: new Block Admin Access module
1.7.1
- Fixed: switched to ADMINOPTIMIZER_VERSION instead of filemtime() for versioning
- Fixed: SMTP from field is only set if it is empty. It doesn't override other plugin Send_from settings now.
1.7.0
- Added: new Page Ordering module
- Fixed: SMTP password is now encrypted before saving to the database
1.6.0
- Added: new Pro Custom Fields Builder module.
- Fixed: Post Cloner module now doesn't clone other's password-protected posts
- Fixed: Improve the user interface for Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies modules
1.5.4
- Bug: fixed no posts showing in XML sitemap
- Added: new Pro options for XML Sitemap module
- Fixed: DB Cleaner comments not cleaned bug.
- Fixed: multiple files for vulnerability
- Fixed: Robots.txt not displaying properly.
- Fixed: XML Sitemap not properly included in Robots.txt
1.5.3
Fixed: Custom Post Types module not showing correct options when editing existing post types
Fixed: Custom Taxonomies module not showing correct options when editing existing taxonomies
1.5.2
Added: Post Cloner after cloning action
1.5.1
Fixed: XML Sitemap URL wrongly set on robots.txt
1.5.0
Added: new XML Sitemap module
1.4.2
- The plugin now require PHP version 7.4.0
- Added polyfills for PHP 8 and 8.1 functions
- Fixed: 2FA module now works on PHP7.4
- Bug: make sure the
Envelope-From, Return-Path is properly set via $phpmailer->Sender and $phpmailer->ReturnPath.
1.4.1
1.4.0
- Added: new Post Cloner module
- Added: new Robots.txt, ads.txt and app-ads.txt module
- Added: removed scheduled tasks on module deactivation
1.3.0
- Added: new Export/Import module.
- Added: auto add anchor target to Headings block
- Added: Disable Gutenberg editor
- Added: Disable Category archive pages
- Added: Disable Tag archive pages
- Added: Disable Author archive pages
- Added: Disable Date archive pages
- Bug: correct a sentence error in database cleaner module
1.2.0 -
- Added: new Database Cleaner module
- Enhancement: updated admin UI interface
- Bug: correct modified date column text
1.1.0 - 27 August 2025
- Added: new Disable User Accounts Module.
- Added: new Disable Guess Redirect 404 Module.
- Enhancement: improve the modules page.
1.0.4 - 20 August 2025
- Enhancement: remove access to xml-rpc class and file.
- Change: Moved Disable XML-RPC module to Security section.
- Bug: Correct taxonomy spelling mistake.
1.0.3 - 19 August 2025
- Bug fixes: fixed 2fa conflicts with last login date.
1.0.2 - 15 August 2025
- Minor bug fixes: fixed spelling error
1.0.1 - 13 August 2025
- Minor bug fixes, security compliant fixes and first release to WP Plugin Directory
1.0.0 - 25 June 2025