Title: Dashboard Menu Visibility
Author: jakubkanna
Published: <strong>February 27, 2026</strong>
Last modified: February 27, 2026

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# Dashboard Menu Visibility

 By [jakubkanna](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakubkanna/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/dashboard-menu-visibility.1.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-menu-visibility/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-menu-visibility/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-menu-visibility/#installation)
 * [Development](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-menu-visibility/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dashboard-menu-visibility/)

## Description

Dashboard Menu Visibility lets administrators control which top-level sidebar menu
items appear in the WordPress admin area.

Features:
 – Settings page with checkbox controls for visible menu items – Defaults
to showing Posts, Pages, Media, and Settings – Includes core menu targets and discovered
plugin/theme menu items – Persists a menu catalog so hidden items remain selectable–
Sanitizes and whitelists saved menu slugs for safer configuration handling

## Screenshots

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## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`
 2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
 3. Go to `Settings -> Dashboard Menu Visibility`
 4. Select the menu items you want visible and save

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Dashboard Menu Visibility” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ jakubkanna ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakubkanna/)

[Translate “Dashboard Menu Visibility” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/dashboard-menu-visibility)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dashboard-menu-visibility/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/dashboard-menu-visibility/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/dashboard-menu-visibility/)
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## Changelog

#### 1.1.1

 * Replaced short internal prefix usage with a longer unique `dashmevi` prefix for
   constants, function names, option keys, and settings slug.

#### 1.1.0

 * Added full menu catalog support (core + discovered menu items).
 * Kept hidden items selectable in settings.
 * Added whitelist-based sanitization for saved menu selections.

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.1**
 *  Last updated **2 months ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-menu-visibility/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[dashboard](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)
   [menu](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/menu/)[security](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
   [settings](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/settings/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-menu-visibility/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ jakubkanna ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakubkanna/)

## Support

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