DevDome Admin Cleaner: Remove Dashboard Widgets and Hide Menu Items

DevDome Admin Cleaner provides admin cleanup for a clean dashboard in WordPress. Remove dashboard widgets from view, including the Welcome panel, Activity, Quick Draft and Site Health. Choose individual settings or use Clean My Admin to apply a broad cleanup. Hide admin notices for yourself or all administrators, then review captured notices in the Notice Inbox. Snooze selected notices for 1 or 7 days and restore them when needed. Notice hiding applies only to users who can access Admin Cleaner and includes update, error and security notices. It changes on-screen visibility without disabling updates or notification emails. Use Client Mode to declutter admin screens for chosen roles, including custom roles. Hide menu items in the admin menu without changing permissions; users with manage_options, the Admin Cleaner capability or network management privileges are exempt. Separate cleanup settings hide selected admin bar items, including the WordPress logo, Comments, New, Updates and Customize. The toolbar itself remains available. Hide admin notices and review them later The Notice Inbox lets you manage on-screen notifications without losing track of their sources.

• Hide plugin notices for yourself or all administrators.
• Snooze selected notices for 1 or 7 days.
• Review notice sources, classifications, first-seen dates and mute status.
• Enable an optional toolbar bell that links to the inbox. Snooze notices for 1 or 7 days from the Notice Inbox.

Notice hiding includes update, error and security notices. Recognised operational notices carry a Critical badge in the inbox. Restore a notice to show it again for everyone. Notice hiding applies only to users who can access Admin Cleaner, normally administrators. Hiding update notices does not disable updates or fix the issues they report. Dashboard customization Choose which dashboard widgets remain visible in your admin panel. You can remove dashboard widgets from view individually or apply the broad cleanup.

• Hide the Welcome panel, Activity, Quick Draft, At a Glance, Events & News and Site Health.
• Hide dashboard widgets added by plugins and themes.
• Hide admin footer text, the version number and notice rows beneath plugins on the Plugins screen.

Check the workspace clutter estimate and its inverse, the Cleanliness indicator, to review your workspace preferences. These are not measures of site health or security. Hiding Site Health or Updates does not improve them. Admin bar and toolbar cleanup Hide selected admin bar items: the WordPress logo, Comments, New, Updates and Customize. You can also hide extra top-level items added by plugins or themes. This admin customization provides basic cleanup of logos and footer text. The toolbar itself remains available. Apply cleanup in wp admin Open DevDome Tools > Admin Cleaner. Choose individual settings and press Save Settings, or press Clean My Admin for a broad cleanup. Clean My Admin applies these changes:

• Hides dashboard widgets and supported toolbar items.
• Hides footer text, the version number and plugin list notice rows.
• Hides all notices already captured in the inbox for all administrators.
• Enables Auto-hide new notices, including supported notices added after page load.

Undo last change restores the previous settings once. Notice mutes are separate: use Restore or Clear all mutes to show hidden notices again. Turn off Auto-hide new notices if you want future notices to remain visible. Admin Cleaner works on its own and also shows its summary in the shared DevDome Tools dashboard. Client Mode and admin menu visibility Use Client Mode to hide menu items for roles registered on your site, including custom roles. You can hide menus for Plugins, Tools, Settings, the editors and Updates, plus the footer version number. For a client dashboard with fewer distractions, choose the entries clients need to see during handover. These custom admin settings simplify the existing workspace. For client handover, use Client Mode to hide selected menu entries for chosen roles without changing permissions. Client Mode never changes roles or capabilities. With the corresponding options enabled, the theme editor, plugin editor and Updates screens redirect to the dashboard. Other direct URLs still follow the user's existing permissions. Users with manage_options, the Admin Cleaner capability or network management privileges are exempt. What cleanup changes and what it preserves Cleanup never deletes posts, pages, media, plugins or themes. It never changes user permissions or replaces access control. Removing inbox records, deleting all notice data and retention housekeeping can permanently delete the plugin's stored notice records and mutes. Uninstalling removes its settings and notice data. Local data and privacy Settings, notice records and mutes stay in your site's options table. Notice excerpts are redacted before storage and limited to 160 characters.

• Redaction removes email addresses, tokens, keys, nonces, URL query strings and filesystem paths.
• Raw notice HTML is never stored.
• Retention targets 200 records. Unresolved protected notices are kept even when this exceeds the limit, with a storage warning.
• Expired snoozes and orphaned mutes are cleaned automatically.
• Delete all notice data removes stored notices and mutes without resetting settings.

Admin Cleaner sets no cookies and sends no visitor data off-site. Its cleanup features run locally and need no external service. Shared dashboard requests, optional account connections and user-submitted error reports are described in External services. AI agents and abilities On WordPress 6.9 or newer, 14 abilities let authorised AI agents inspect settings and notices, apply cleanup, undo settings, manage notices and run housekeeping. MCP clients can use them through the WordPress MCP Adapter. Abilities include snoozing for 1 to 90 days. Every ability checks the plugin capability. Actions affecting all administrators or deleting records require explicit confirmation where specified. Agent output excludes email addresses and server paths. Older versions register no abilities.

1.0.9

• Shared DevDome library 1.7.10: the one-time Report a bug hint is recorded through a nonce-checked request instead of on a page view; the DevDome dashboard lists only real problems and prints its icons through the WordPress escaping functions.
• The plugin screen is printed directly instead of being buffered, and every value is escaped where it is printed (WordPress.org review rule).
• Listing text updated: title, short description, tags and introduction.

1.0.8

• AI agents get setting names and role names back unchanged; the output filter no longer treats a long name as a secret.
• Bundled DevDome library 1.7.6: if you connect a DevDome account from the DevDome Tools dashboard, the Connect card now says exactly what is shared, including the list of active DevDome plugins and their versions. Sites that were already connected, and sites that never connect, send nothing new. See External services.

1.0.7

• The notice capture always closes its own output buffer, even when another plugin leaves one open above it.
• The bundled DevDome library loads WordPress admin files only where they are needed.

1.0.6

• Security review pass: every request handler checks capability and nonce inline before reading input, all inputs sanitised on the line they are read, output escaping tightened, the bundled DevDome library verifies nonces before any lookup, and the account connect return is bound to the user who started it.
• Notice redaction now covers HTTP Authorization headers and any absolute server path; late-inserted notices reappear if the plugin does not answer within 8 seconds.
• External services disclosure corrected to list every field an error report carries.

1.0.5

• Settings use plain checkboxes on the left of each option, saved with the Save Settings button, instead of toggle switches; nothing changes until you save.

1.0.4

• Connect fix (shared DevDome core 1.6.6): the connect claim now waits up to 30 seconds and keeps the handshake for 20 minutes so a refresh retries it, the DevDome hub shows why a connect failed with a Try again link, and the verify file is served through a query form for hosts that answer /.well-known/ before WordPress.

1.0.3

• First tab is now called Overview, in line with the other DevDome plugins; old links to the Dashboard tab still open it. Overview status card in the suite style, sticky Save Settings footer on every settings tab, darker readable text, consistent spacing under the tab bar.

1.0.2

• Design: every screen now follows the shared DevDome admin frame (section heads above cards, blue header badge, bug-report button, standard Save button, suite status colours).
• Notice Inbox is a data list with status badges and grouped row actions.
• Confirmations open an in-page dialog instead of the browser prompt.
• Copy: no dashes in customer-facing text.

1.0.1

• DevDome Dashboard: plugin list, descriptions, logos and versions now come from devdome.com, one-click install of DevDome plugins from WordPress.org, Docs link and Fix buttons, Activate stays on the dashboard.

1.0.0

• First WordPress.org release. Every identifier now uses the devdadcl_ prefix; shared DevDome core 1.6.0 (site token sent in a POST header, never in a URL).

0.2.0

• Notice storage rebuilt: one record per notice, so concurrent administrators can no longer overwrite each other's changes, reported counts are true counts, and storage limits never discard an unresolved protected notice.
• Notice identity v2: a changed operational notice no longer inherits a mute stored for an older, different message.
• Stored excerpts are redacted (emails, tokens, keys, query strings, paths) before persistence.
• Mute scope is explicit: hide for yourself or for all administrators; the status column shows who is affected.
• The clutter number is now a documented workspace estimate computed from real state: muted promos stop counting, hiding Site Health or Updates never improves it, and client exposure comes from real users instead of a hardcoded value.
• Presets show the exact diff against your current settings before applying, and Undo last change restores the prior configuration exactly.
• Reset plugin settings, Clear all mutes and Delete all notice data are now separate, honestly named actions.
• Client Mode: capability-based exemptions (manage_options always wins), dynamic role discovery including custom roles, duplicate editor toggle merged, and every security-sounding claim replaced with the cosmetic truth.
• Shared DevDome core updated to 1.4.7: the suite dashboard makes no request to DevDome before you explicitly connect, and its Connect button states what connecting shares.
• Self-hosted updater hardened: manifest validation (trusted host, HTTPS, matching plugin, sane version), fail-closed behavior, and package checksum verification when published.
• Summary cache refreshes immediately after every change, with a visible last-updated time and manual refresh.

0.1.8

• Expanded External services disclosure.

0.1.7

• Readme copy polish.

0.1.6

• Notice Inbox: added a Remove button next to Restore on every row that forgets a notice entirely (drops it from the inbox and the mute list), distinct from Restore which only un-hides it.
• Performance: the notice inbox now writes at most once per admin request instead of once per notice, and settings are read from a single memoized autoloaded option, cutting redundant database work on every admin page.
• Design: dashboard-widget, admin-bar and Client Mode settings now use compact toggle switches on the DevDome suite design system.
• Accuracy: corrected the External services and Privacy sections to document the shared DevDome suite bot-detection download; removed dead detection scaffolding and a duplicate theme-editor hide.

0.1.0

• Initial release: one-click admin cleanup with a live clutter score, a notice inbox with snooze/mute/restore (criticals always kept visible), per-widget dashboard cleanup, admin-bar and footer/version hiding, role-based Client Mode, and five ready-made presets.