Regal Menu Editor - Renewal
Premium Licence

Regal Menu Editor – Renewal

£19.99

A visual WordPress admin menu and Toolbar editor for renaming, reordering and hiding items by role or user, with exact-route access restrictions, admin branding, plugin-list visibility, import/export and recovery tools.

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Description

WordPress Admin Menu & Toolbar Editor

Customise the WordPress admin menu and Toolbar without rebuilding wp-admin.

Rename, reorder, move and hide WordPress admin menu and Toolbar items, target visibility by role or individual user, and apply safe access restrictions to supported administration routes.

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✓ 7-day trial    ✓ Role & user targeting    ✓ Admin menu, Toolbar, appearance & recovery tools

Shape wp-admin around the people using it

Give clients and teams a focused WordPress workspace without changing the pages their plugins rely on.

WordPress administration screens can become crowded as themes and plugins add menus, submenus and Toolbar links. Regal Menu Editor lets you organise that interface visually, while keeping registered page addresses and WordPress capabilities separate from cosmetic visibility.

1

Simplify busy admin menus

Rename and reorder registered items, move supported entries within the hierarchy and add your own links, headings and separators.

2

Show different interfaces to different people

Set visibility rules for everyone, individual WordPress roles or specific users, with audience previews before you save.

3

Use stronger controls where appropriate

Choose Hide Only for cosmetic cleanup or Hide and Restrict Access for exact matching registered administration routes.

Core features

Focused control over the WordPress admin experience.

Admin menu editing

Rename and reorder discovered WordPress administration items, move supported entries and create custom links, headings and separators.

Role & user targeting

Apply audience-specific Show, Hide Only and supported Restrict rules while keeping labels and ordering shared.

Toolbar customisation

Edit admin and frontend Toolbar hierarchy, labels, URLs, targets and visibility for different audiences.

Appearance controls

Customise sidebar, submenu, update-badge and Toolbar colours, plus admin accents and the WordPress Toolbar logo.

Plugin-list visibility

Cosmetically hide selected rows from Plugins → Installed Plugins for chosen roles or users without deactivating the plugin.

Backup & recovery

Export and restore Regal configuration, import supported Admin Menu Editor Pro data, reset customisations or bypass them using recovery mode.

Important access distinction

Visibility and permissions are deliberately treated as different things.

Hide Only, Toolbar hiding and Installed Plugins list hiding are cosmetic. They do not grant or remove WordPress capabilities. Hide and Restrict Access additionally denies exact matching registered administration routes; background, AJAX, REST, upload, update and settings-save endpoints remain outside that route restriction.

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Make wp-admin easier to use without pretending a hidden link is a permission system.

Use the 7-day trial to organise a real WordPress admin menu, test role and user views, and confirm the exact access behaviour you want before rolling it out.

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Changelog

Regal Menu Editor

v1.7.10 
Version 1.7.10 - 12th November 2026
- Fixed frontend Toolbar scans when WordPress loads the Toolbar class later in the request.
- Discovered Toolbar items registered by late render hooks and applied saved ordering after registration.
- Kept Toolbar drag reordering within the current level to prevent items being moved into hidden parents.
- Corrected Toolbar item row alignment across desktop, tablet and mobile layouts.
See Full Changelog 
Version 1.7.9 - 28th September 2026
- Standardised the product header and version badge, and routed System-tab support through the Licence Server with consent-based diagnostics and structured bug reporting.

Version 1.7.6 - 23rd September 2026
- Standardised the System page layout, licence controls and recent changelog display.

Version 1.7.5 - 23rd September 2026
- Improved licence status synchronisation and the update experience.

Version 1.7.4 - 23rd September 2026
- Simplified the compatibility declaration displayed in release notes.

Version 1.7.3 - 23rd September 2026
- Compatibility with WordPress: 7.1.2

Version 1.7.2 - 20th September 2026
- Hardened private update validation.
- Refreshes protected download URLs immediately before installation.

Version 1.7.0 - 19th September 2026
- Awaits Licence Server confirmation before enabling a code-less trial.

Version 1.6.1 - 19th September 2026
- Added a Settings link on the Installed Plugins page.

Version 1.6.0 - 16th September 2026
- Added identified staging activation to the Licence Server check.
- Added compatibility reporting to the Licence Server check.

Version 1.5.2 - 14th September 2026
- Hid trial-only controls and details when a paid licence is attached.
- Simplified the active licence confirmation message.

Version 1.5.1 - 11th September 2026
- Standardised System-page commerce actions for paid, expired, trial, paused and cancelled licence states.

Version 1.5.0 - 11th September 2026
- Show the renewal action for active paid licences.
- Show the renewal action for expired paid licences.

Version 1.4.0 - 11th September 2026
- Linked trial codes only after server acceptance.
- Added contextual Purchase or Renew licence actions.
- Moved the linked trial-code guidance below the field for clearer entry.

Version 1.3.0 - 11th September 2026
- Added account-issued trial activation codes.
- Added authoritative Licence Server trial status.
- Added authoritative Licence Server trial expiry.
- Added authoritative Licence Server site registration.
- Added protected private updates for entitled trials.
- Added plugin information for entitled trials.
- Preserved paid licence precedence over trial entitlement.
- Prevented trial codes from appearing in diagnostic logs.
- Prevented protected package URLs from appearing in diagnostic logs.
- Prevented download tokens from appearing in diagnostic logs.

Version 1.2.1 - 9th September 2026
- Corrected generated WordPress update labels across top-level menu items.
- Corrected generated WordPress update labels across submenu items.
- Preserved genuine non-zero update badges.

Version 1.2.0 - 3rd September 2026
- Enabled the page-level Save changes action for Appearance edits.
- Added a matching Save menu action at the bottom of the Menu Editor.
- Removed stale generated zero text from the Plugins label.
- Preserved genuine non-zero WordPress update badges.
- Removed stale zero text from Dashboard Updates submenu labels.
- Preserved the current WordPress update count.

Version 1.1.2 - 2nd September 2026
- Corrected legacy Plugins update labels so an empty update count never appears as "Plugins 0".
- Corrected theme-altered Plugins update labels so an empty update count never appears as "Plugins 0".
- Corrected theme-flattened Plugins update labels so an empty update count never appears as "Plugins 0".
- Corrected late-modified Plugins update labels so an empty update count never appears as "Plugins 0".

Version 1.1.1 - 1st September 2026
- Displayed the Licence Server's authoritative latest package version even when the installed build is newer.
- Replaced the missing-licence numeric marker with a clear warning exclamation mark.

Version 1.1.0 - 1st September 2026
- Fixed the System tab so it performs a fresh Licence Server update check.
- Displayed the current offered version in the System tab.
- Deferred Regal Menu Editor service construction until after init.
- Prevented WordPress 6.7+ early translation-loading notices.

Version 1.0.3 - 1st September 2026
- Fixed empty Plugins update indicators so zero does not appear beside Plugins.
- Covered WordPress variants that include screen-reader text.

Version 1.0.2 - 1st September 2026
- Reloaded the Toolbar Editor after a successful save.
- Showed the applied Toolbar configuration immediately after saving.

Version 1.0.1 - 1st September 2026
- Fixed WordPress 6.7+ translation timing notices by loading Regal Menu Editor translations on the init hook.

Version 1.0.0 - 1st September 2026
- Promoted the completed Regal Menu Editor V1 feature set to its first stable release.
- Included the validated visual menu editor.
- Included the validated Toolbar editor.
- Included audience-specific visibility controls.
- Included appearance controls.
- Included recovery.
- Included import/export.
- Included the System dashboard.

Version 0.1.6 - 1st September 2026
- Fixed quick visibility controls so they save to the selected Everyone audience instead of always changing every administrator.
- Fixed quick visibility controls so they save to the selected role audience instead of always changing every administrator.
- Fixed quick visibility controls so they save to the selected user audience instead of always changing every administrator.
- Added clear audience shortcuts for configured roles.
- Added clear audience shortcuts for configured users.
- Labelled shared ordering separately from audience visibility.
- Labelled shared names separately from audience visibility.
- Improved Toolbar discovery for late theme-added nodes.
- Included Flatsome Toolbar links in improved discovery.
- Included Oshine Toolbar links in improved discovery.
- Removed empty Plugins update badges.
- Corrected responsive editor action wrapping.
- Made the System dashboard use the full available admin width.

Version 0.1.5 - 1st September 2026
- Reworked the System page into four equal-height desktop columns for plugin information, support, recent changes and system guidance.
- Added responsive tablet layouts to the System page.
- Added responsive mobile layouts to the System page.

Version 0.1.4 - 1st September 2026
- Fixed drag-and-drop ordering in the Menu Editor.
- Fixed drag-and-drop ordering in the Toolbar Editor.
- Separated sidebar appearance controls from Toolbar appearance controls.
- Added exact colour entry.
- Added true WordPress default states.
- Added interactive hover previews.
- Added interactive submenu previews.
- Added interactive dropdown previews.
- Imported supported Admin Menu Editor Pro sidebar colours.
- Imported supported Admin Menu Editor Pro Toolbar colours.
- Applied custom runtime styles after WordPress defaults to prevent the default blue hover flash.
- Standardised button sizing across the plugin.
- Standardised button hierarchy across the plugin.
- Standardised responsive spacing across the plugin, including the Import / Export workflow.

Version 0.1.3 - 1st September 2026
- Added a System tab for Licence Server trial checks using the regal-menu-editor product slug.
- Added a System tab for Licence Server licence checks using the regal-menu-editor product slug.
- Added private update metadata.
- Added licence management.
- Added authorised support requests.
- Added debug controls.
- Added the latest three changelog entries.

Version 0.1.2 - 1st September 2026
- Rebuilt the Toolbar Editor as a collapsible parent-and-child hierarchy.
- Added consistent drag-and-drop ordering to the Toolbar Editor.
- Added keyboard ordering to the Toolbar Editor.
- Added quick visibility controls to the Toolbar Editor.
- Corrected Toolbar persistence so a single change leaves untouched WordPress nodes in place.
- Preserved native icons when saving Toolbar changes.
- Preserved badges when saving Toolbar changes.
- Preserved dynamic labels when saving Toolbar changes.
- Preserved update counts when saving Toolbar changes.

Version 0.1.1 - 1st September 2026
- Completed the visual administration menu editor.
- Added collapsible children to the administration menu editor.
- Added drag-and-drop ordering to the administration menu editor.
- Added keyboard ordering to the administration menu editor.
- Added labels to the administration menu editor.
- Added icons to the administration menu editor.
- Added custom links to the administration menu editor.
- Added headings to the administration menu editor.
- Added separators to the administration menu editor.
- Added global visibility rules.
- Added role visibility rules.
- Added searchable user visibility rules.
- Added current-user preview.
- Added role preview.
- Added user preview.
- Added Hide Only behaviour.
- Added exact-route Hide and Restrict Access behaviour.
- Added safe smart tags.
- Added administrator lockout warnings.
- Added authenticated recovery mode.
- Added WP-CLI status commands.
- Added WP-CLI reset commands.
- Added admin Toolbar editing.
- Added frontend Toolbar editing.
- Added custom Toolbar links.
- Added Toolbar hierarchy.
- Added Toolbar audience rules.
- Added Toolbar contexts.
- Added a same-origin frontend discovery scan.
- Added focused sidebar colours.
- Added focused Toolbar colours.
- Added a live appearance preview.
- Added WordPress Toolbar logo controls.
- Added role/user-aware Installed Plugins list hiding without changing plugin state or WordPress capabilities.
- Added Regal JSON backup.
- Added Regal JSON restore.
- Added staged one-way Admin Menu Editor Pro import.
- Added complete reset.
- Added revision-safe replacement.
- Preserved settings on deactivation through explicit data-retention controls.
- Made uninstall cleanup opt-in through explicit data-retention controls.

Version 0.1.0 - 1st September 2026
- Added the initial Regal Menu Editor foundation with a protected administration shell.
- Added read-only discovery of registered WordPress menu items.
- Added versioned configuration validation.
- Added stable menu identifiers.
- Added route descriptors.
- Added import-source detection boundaries.
- Kept editor assets on the current administration origin so styling works through HTTPS and LAN access.
- Avoided resolving editor assets to another device's localhost.

Changelog

Regal Menu Editor

v1.7.10 
Version 1.7.10 - 12th November 2026
- Fixed frontend Toolbar scans when WordPress loads the Toolbar class later in the request.
- Discovered Toolbar items registered by late render hooks and applied saved ordering after registration.
- Kept Toolbar drag reordering within the current level to prevent items being moved into hidden parents.
- Corrected Toolbar item row alignment across desktop, tablet and mobile layouts.
See Full Changelog 
Version 1.7.9 - 28th September 2026
- Standardised the product header and version badge, and routed System-tab support through the Licence Server with consent-based diagnostics and structured bug reporting.

Version 1.7.6 - 23rd September 2026
- Standardised the System page layout, licence controls and recent changelog display.

Version 1.7.5 - 23rd September 2026
- Improved licence status synchronisation and the update experience.

Version 1.7.4 - 23rd September 2026
- Simplified the compatibility declaration displayed in release notes.

Version 1.7.3 - 23rd September 2026
- Compatibility with WordPress: 7.1.2

Version 1.7.2 - 20th September 2026
- Hardened private update validation.
- Refreshes protected download URLs immediately before installation.

Version 1.7.0 - 19th September 2026
- Awaits Licence Server confirmation before enabling a code-less trial.

Version 1.6.1 - 19th September 2026
- Added a Settings link on the Installed Plugins page.

Version 1.6.0 - 16th September 2026
- Added identified staging activation to the Licence Server check.
- Added compatibility reporting to the Licence Server check.

Version 1.5.2 - 14th September 2026
- Hid trial-only controls and details when a paid licence is attached.
- Simplified the active licence confirmation message.

Version 1.5.1 - 11th September 2026
- Standardised System-page commerce actions for paid, expired, trial, paused and cancelled licence states.

Version 1.5.0 - 11th September 2026
- Show the renewal action for active paid licences.
- Show the renewal action for expired paid licences.

Version 1.4.0 - 11th September 2026
- Linked trial codes only after server acceptance.
- Added contextual Purchase or Renew licence actions.
- Moved the linked trial-code guidance below the field for clearer entry.

Version 1.3.0 - 11th September 2026
- Added account-issued trial activation codes.
- Added authoritative Licence Server trial status.
- Added authoritative Licence Server trial expiry.
- Added authoritative Licence Server site registration.
- Added protected private updates for entitled trials.
- Added plugin information for entitled trials.
- Preserved paid licence precedence over trial entitlement.
- Prevented trial codes from appearing in diagnostic logs.
- Prevented protected package URLs from appearing in diagnostic logs.
- Prevented download tokens from appearing in diagnostic logs.

Version 1.2.1 - 9th September 2026
- Corrected generated WordPress update labels across top-level menu items.
- Corrected generated WordPress update labels across submenu items.
- Preserved genuine non-zero update badges.

Version 1.2.0 - 3rd September 2026
- Enabled the page-level Save changes action for Appearance edits.
- Added a matching Save menu action at the bottom of the Menu Editor.
- Removed stale generated zero text from the Plugins label.
- Preserved genuine non-zero WordPress update badges.
- Removed stale zero text from Dashboard Updates submenu labels.
- Preserved the current WordPress update count.

Version 1.1.2 - 2nd September 2026
- Corrected legacy Plugins update labels so an empty update count never appears as "Plugins 0".
- Corrected theme-altered Plugins update labels so an empty update count never appears as "Plugins 0".
- Corrected theme-flattened Plugins update labels so an empty update count never appears as "Plugins 0".
- Corrected late-modified Plugins update labels so an empty update count never appears as "Plugins 0".

Version 1.1.1 - 1st September 2026
- Displayed the Licence Server's authoritative latest package version even when the installed build is newer.
- Replaced the missing-licence numeric marker with a clear warning exclamation mark.

Version 1.1.0 - 1st September 2026
- Fixed the System tab so it performs a fresh Licence Server update check.
- Displayed the current offered version in the System tab.
- Deferred Regal Menu Editor service construction until after init.
- Prevented WordPress 6.7+ early translation-loading notices.

Version 1.0.3 - 1st September 2026
- Fixed empty Plugins update indicators so zero does not appear beside Plugins.
- Covered WordPress variants that include screen-reader text.

Version 1.0.2 - 1st September 2026
- Reloaded the Toolbar Editor after a successful save.
- Showed the applied Toolbar configuration immediately after saving.

Version 1.0.1 - 1st September 2026
- Fixed WordPress 6.7+ translation timing notices by loading Regal Menu Editor translations on the init hook.

Version 1.0.0 - 1st September 2026
- Promoted the completed Regal Menu Editor V1 feature set to its first stable release.
- Included the validated visual menu editor.
- Included the validated Toolbar editor.
- Included audience-specific visibility controls.
- Included appearance controls.
- Included recovery.
- Included import/export.
- Included the System dashboard.

Version 0.1.6 - 1st September 2026
- Fixed quick visibility controls so they save to the selected Everyone audience instead of always changing every administrator.
- Fixed quick visibility controls so they save to the selected role audience instead of always changing every administrator.
- Fixed quick visibility controls so they save to the selected user audience instead of always changing every administrator.
- Added clear audience shortcuts for configured roles.
- Added clear audience shortcuts for configured users.
- Labelled shared ordering separately from audience visibility.
- Labelled shared names separately from audience visibility.
- Improved Toolbar discovery for late theme-added nodes.
- Included Flatsome Toolbar links in improved discovery.
- Included Oshine Toolbar links in improved discovery.
- Removed empty Plugins update badges.
- Corrected responsive editor action wrapping.
- Made the System dashboard use the full available admin width.

Version 0.1.5 - 1st September 2026
- Reworked the System page into four equal-height desktop columns for plugin information, support, recent changes and system guidance.
- Added responsive tablet layouts to the System page.
- Added responsive mobile layouts to the System page.

Version 0.1.4 - 1st September 2026
- Fixed drag-and-drop ordering in the Menu Editor.
- Fixed drag-and-drop ordering in the Toolbar Editor.
- Separated sidebar appearance controls from Toolbar appearance controls.
- Added exact colour entry.
- Added true WordPress default states.
- Added interactive hover previews.
- Added interactive submenu previews.
- Added interactive dropdown previews.
- Imported supported Admin Menu Editor Pro sidebar colours.
- Imported supported Admin Menu Editor Pro Toolbar colours.
- Applied custom runtime styles after WordPress defaults to prevent the default blue hover flash.
- Standardised button sizing across the plugin.
- Standardised button hierarchy across the plugin.
- Standardised responsive spacing across the plugin, including the Import / Export workflow.

Version 0.1.3 - 1st September 2026
- Added a System tab for Licence Server trial checks using the regal-menu-editor product slug.
- Added a System tab for Licence Server licence checks using the regal-menu-editor product slug.
- Added private update metadata.
- Added licence management.
- Added authorised support requests.
- Added debug controls.
- Added the latest three changelog entries.

Version 0.1.2 - 1st September 2026
- Rebuilt the Toolbar Editor as a collapsible parent-and-child hierarchy.
- Added consistent drag-and-drop ordering to the Toolbar Editor.
- Added keyboard ordering to the Toolbar Editor.
- Added quick visibility controls to the Toolbar Editor.
- Corrected Toolbar persistence so a single change leaves untouched WordPress nodes in place.
- Preserved native icons when saving Toolbar changes.
- Preserved badges when saving Toolbar changes.
- Preserved dynamic labels when saving Toolbar changes.
- Preserved update counts when saving Toolbar changes.

Version 0.1.1 - 1st September 2026
- Completed the visual administration menu editor.
- Added collapsible children to the administration menu editor.
- Added drag-and-drop ordering to the administration menu editor.
- Added keyboard ordering to the administration menu editor.
- Added labels to the administration menu editor.
- Added icons to the administration menu editor.
- Added custom links to the administration menu editor.
- Added headings to the administration menu editor.
- Added separators to the administration menu editor.
- Added global visibility rules.
- Added role visibility rules.
- Added searchable user visibility rules.
- Added current-user preview.
- Added role preview.
- Added user preview.
- Added Hide Only behaviour.
- Added exact-route Hide and Restrict Access behaviour.
- Added safe smart tags.
- Added administrator lockout warnings.
- Added authenticated recovery mode.
- Added WP-CLI status commands.
- Added WP-CLI reset commands.
- Added admin Toolbar editing.
- Added frontend Toolbar editing.
- Added custom Toolbar links.
- Added Toolbar hierarchy.
- Added Toolbar audience rules.
- Added Toolbar contexts.
- Added a same-origin frontend discovery scan.
- Added focused sidebar colours.
- Added focused Toolbar colours.
- Added a live appearance preview.
- Added WordPress Toolbar logo controls.
- Added role/user-aware Installed Plugins list hiding without changing plugin state or WordPress capabilities.
- Added Regal JSON backup.
- Added Regal JSON restore.
- Added staged one-way Admin Menu Editor Pro import.
- Added complete reset.
- Added revision-safe replacement.
- Preserved settings on deactivation through explicit data-retention controls.
- Made uninstall cleanup opt-in through explicit data-retention controls.

Version 0.1.0 - 1st September 2026
- Added the initial Regal Menu Editor foundation with a protected administration shell.
- Added read-only discovery of registered WordPress menu items.
- Added versioned configuration validation.
- Added stable menu identifiers.
- Added route descriptors.
- Added import-source detection boundaries.
- Kept editor assets on the current administration origin so styling works through HTTPS and LAN access.
- Avoided resolving editor assets to another device's localhost.