Description
Extends the admin role with a new, awesomer role called ‘Sysadmin’. This new role gives you a menu of options to hide menu and/or sub-menu items in the admin from all other users (e.g. Themes, Theme Editor, Plugin Editor, etc.) Very useful when restricting major changes or updates from clients or administrators.
Special Features
- Disable core update
- Disable plugin update
- Disable theme update
- Disable admin bar
Uninstall
Just deactivate and delete plugin. This will re-assign Sysadmin role as Administrator and remove all options (unhiding hidden menu items, etc.)
Installation
Activate, promote yourself, set your options, high five.
- Upload
system-adminto the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Promote yourself to Sysadmin and visit System Admin, select your desired options, save changes.
FAQ
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No. All that this plugin does is included in this version. Nothing hidden to be gained.
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Does this plugin add redirects?
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No. Simply hides the menu items. You can still access the direct URI (intentional fallback).
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Contributors & Developers
“System Admin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
2.1
- Fixed: Sysadmin users could lose wp-admin access after self-promotion in some environments.
- Fixed: Promote Self now preserves Administrator role compatibility on promotion.
- Fixed: Sysadmin custom capabilities are now re-applied defensively during role sync.
- Fixed: Direct URL admin-menu enforcement now includes a role-based Sysadmin fallback check.
2.0
- Compatibility with WordPress 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, and 7.0
- Fixed: Check All / Uncheck All / Toggle All buttons broken since WP 5.6 (jQuery 3 .prop() fix)
- Fixed: CSRF nonce protection added to Plugins and Admin Menu settings forms
- Fixed: Nonce now required to use the Promote Self page
- Fixed: Admin notice HTML updated to modern notice classes (notice-error, notice-success)
- Fixed: load_plugin_textdomain now hooked to init for WP 6.7+ JIT translation loading
- Fixed: register_setting now includes a sanitize_callback and type (WP 5.5+)
- Fixed: All dynamic output now escaped with esc_html() and esc_url()
- Fixed: Admin page titles updated from h2 to h1 (WP 3.8+)
- Fixed: user_has_cap filter callbacks accept the 4th $user argument
- Improved: Removed deprecated &$this pattern from all hook registrations (PHP 8.x)
- Improved: JMSA_AdminMenu declares $menu_original and $submenu_original explicitly (PHP 8.2+)
- Improved: WP_User_Query now uses get_results() instead of direct property access
- Improved: wp_roles() replaces manual WP_Roles instantiation
- Improved: All plugin options cleaned up on uninstall (added jmsa_version)
- Requires WordPress 6.0 or later
- Requires PHP 8.0 or later
1.0
- Init to Winit