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1 # Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE)
2
3 Contributors: qriouslad
4 Donate link: https://bowo.io/asenha-sp-rdm
5 Tags: enhancements, tweaks, optimizations, tools
6 Requires at least: 4.6
7 Tested up to: 6.3.1
8 Stable tag: 6.0.4
9 Requires PHP: 5.6
10 License: GPLv2 or later
11 License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
12
13 ![](.wordpress-org/banner-772x250.png)
14
15 Duplicate post, post order, image resize, email via SMTP, admin menu editor, custom css / code, disable gutenberg and much more in a single plugin.
16
17 ## Description
18
19 Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) helps you to **easily enhance** various admin workflows and site aspects while **replacing multiple plugins** doing it.
20
21 **Pro version** with Lifetime Deal (LTD) is available at [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webwww.wpase.com](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web).
22
23 Here's First Look at ASE Pro by David McCan
24
25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdbl-Ao_1Xc
26
27 Here's a review at v5.7.1 by Buxbaum Barna in Hungarian.
28
29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHo1x3ITs8E
30
31 Here's a review at v5.7.0 by Tiziano Fogliata in Italian.
32
33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKTLi24KpXQ
34
35 Here's a review at v5.4.1 by Chiara Costa in Portuguese.
36
37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpjKvWUcJlk
38
39 Here's a review at v5.2.9 by Alexis FH of WP Made Simple.
40
41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPBEx1vHwuY
42
43 Here's a review at v5.1.0 by Paul Charlton of WPTuts.
44
45 [youtube https://youtu.be/V-_4TnjGloE]
46
47 Here's a review at v5.0.2 by Imran Siddiq @websquadron.
48
49 https://youtu.be/Ja8GxOPGqKY
50
51 Here's a quick review at v5.0.1 by Nathan Wrigley @wpbuilds.
52
53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwaWL6znuZg&t=3242s
54
55 Here's a walkthrough of the plugin at v4.8.2 by Nathan Ingram.
56
57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qXGDEBfMp0&t=2984s
58
59 ### What Users Say
60
61 _"**Every single thing works as expected**."_ ~[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwaWL6znuZg&t=3242sNathan Wrigley @wpbuilds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwaWL6znuZg&t=3242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwaWL6znuZg&t=3242s)
62
63 _"**I’m replacing so many plugins with this!**"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/@instadesign](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/)
64
65 _"**This is the best plugin I’ve installed in 2023!**🙂 It replaced several existing plugins and added some really useful extra functionality on top."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-essential-plugin-3/@steve1215](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-essential-plugin-3/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-essential-plugin-3/)
66
67 _"**So many useful features** it blows my mind, as well as enabling me to **ditch so many other plugins!**"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2441/@simonclay](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2441/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2441/)
68
69 _"**A must have plugin for most sites**. So many useful features. along with a great developer who is open to suggestions."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2443/@akgt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2443/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-2443/)
70
71 _"This plugin is simply amazing. It **easily replaces a dozen or more plugins I install on every website project**. It is **super lightweight**, easy to use, and support has been wonderful and responsive. Highly recommended!"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-must-have-plugin-2/NetzzJD](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-must-have-plugin-2/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-must-have-plugin-2/)
72
73 _"**...it replaces many single purpose plugins which bloat up the site and the admin area**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaces-a-lot-of-single-purpose-plugins/@tageins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaces-a-lot-of-single-purpose-plugins/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaces-a-lot-of-single-purpose-plugins/)
74
75 _"**Full of useful features, works without problems**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/Krzysztof Płaneta](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/)
76
77 _"**Great plugin! Clear, useful, and a joy to use**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/Todd](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/)
78
79 _"One of those plugins that feels like it **should be part of the [WordPress] core, lots of useful features without the bloat**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-contribution-5/@mohobook](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-contribution-5/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-contribution-5/)
80
81 _"It is great how many small things are all included in this one plugin. **Definitely makes things feel a lot simpler**."_ ~[@kenmundell
82 ](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-multi-purpose-plugin/)
83
84 _"**This plugin is what I have been waiting for to see for years!**"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-swiss-army-tool-for-wordpress/@AlexGraphicD](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-swiss-army-tool-for-wordpress/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-swiss-army-tool-for-wordpress/)
85
86 _"Great job! **Saved me lots of time to add lots of plugins** to get ready for my work. It's a relief to have **everything streamlined and ready to go**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-2817/Tao Sheng](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-2817/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-2817/)
87
88 _"I’m already in love with this plugin... **It will make my WP-life a lot easier**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-allready-in-love-with-this-plugin/@medieskolen](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-allready-in-love-with-this-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-allready-in-love-with-this-plugin/)
89
90 _"I really love how this plugin incorporates **so many small fixes or tweaks** that are needed with WordPress - I can now get rid of many other plugins."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-plugin-replacing-many-other-plugins/Dale Reardon](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-plugin-replacing-many-other-plugins/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-plugin-replacing-many-other-plugins/)
91
92 _"This plugin allows you to install and maintain **one plugin instead of a host of smaller ones**. My tests were all successful and I was happy to simplify my maintenance with fewer plugins."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaced-4-plugins-worked-well-a/Vic Drover](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaced-4-plugins-worked-well-a/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replaced-4-plugins-worked-well-a/)
93
94 _"With this plugin, I can remove tons of plugins to **reduce the possibility of plugin conflicts**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-powerful-tool-13/@chiehliniceday](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-powerful-tool-13/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-powerful-tool-13/)
95
96 _"**It’s worth 10 stars (or more)**. This plugin eliminates the need to install many other plugins and also **makes functions.php smaller** since I have to insert fewer code snippets."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/its-worth-10-stars-or-more/Angelika Reisiger](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/its-worth-10-stars-or-more/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/its-worth-10-stars-or-more/)
97
98 _"Excellent and **very well-supported plugin**; saves me a lot of work! Admin Site Enhancements has made my list of 'must install' plug-ins, since **it makes so many other tasks much easier**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-and-very-well-supported-plugin-saves-me-a-lot-of-work/@grizdev](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-and-very-well-supported-plugin-saves-me-a-lot-of-work/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-and-very-well-supported-plugin-saves-me-a-lot-of-work/)
99
100 _"**I was super skeptical** that this plugin could do so much without any problems, **but I was wrong... 100% recommended!**"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-all-in-one-plugin-you-need-in-your-arsenal/@scarlywebs](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-all-in-one-plugin-you-need-in-your-arsenal/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-all-in-one-plugin-you-need-in-your-arsenal/)
101
102 _"Normally, I tend to steer clear of “all-in-one” plugins; however, I believe that the **selection of tools** incorporated into this plugin has been astutely deliberated, given that it **nearly aligns entirely with the options I typically apply to each website**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-features-selection/@cvladan](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-features-selection/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-features-selection/)
103
104 _"There are so many little **wordpress tweaks** that we all have to do which either requires **a bunch of small plugins or added code snippets**. This is a great step in **consolidating them into a well organized spot, without polluting the admin screen with nags and menu items and other junk**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/Todd](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-clear-useful-and-a-joy-to-use/)
105
106 _"**ASE has been a game-changer for us**... we were able to remove numerous duplicate plugins, reducing clutter and improving efficiency. ASE's enhanced admin dashboard, improved site performance, and robust security features have truly transformed our website management... It's a must-have plugin for anyone looking to optimize their WordPress site and streamline their workflow."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-has-reduced-my-plugin-list-by-6-7/@tomhung](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-has-reduced-my-plugin-list-by-6-7/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-has-reduced-my-plugin-list-by-6-7/)
107
108 _"I love the **modular approach**. And I love that the whole plugin - with all its potential functionality - is **smaller in file-size than some of the plugins that it replaces**, which do only one of these things. Thank you for the great work!"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-swiss-army-knife/Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-swiss-army-knife/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-swiss-army-knife/)
109
110 _"Thank You for **killing the dashboard SPAM!**"_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-is-what-freedom-tastes-like/@happyfrank73](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-is-what-freedom-tastes-like/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-is-what-freedom-tastes-like/)
111
112 _"Great compilation of settings and options. **It had quickly become one of my essential plugins**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-3276/@unapersona](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-3276/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-3276/)
113
114 _"**Incredibly powerful and well organized**. It’s a real accomplishment to put this many features into a plugin and still make it easy to navigate."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/holy-cow-this-is-excellent/Nathan Ingram](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/holy-cow-this-is-excellent/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/holy-cow-this-is-excellent/)
115
116 _"\[This\] is a Swiss Army Knife in terms of features that will **keep your WordPress clean and optimal**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/there-are-no-words-just-amazing/@samirhp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/there-are-no-words-just-amazing/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/there-are-no-words-just-amazing/)
117
118 _"**Has noticeably improved performance on many of my sites**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/@instadesign](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-replacing-so-many-plugins-with-this/)
119
120 _"**...everything is clear, fast, consistent and lightweight**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-job-premium-functions-in-free-plugin/Peter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-job-premium-functions-in-free-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-job-premium-functions-in-free-plugin/)
121
122 _"**Greatest plugin ever**."_ ~[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/greatest-plugin-ever-11/@angelaustr](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/greatest-plugin-ever-11/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/greatest-plugin-ever-11/)
123
124 _"**p.s. There are bugs**. This is software development after all and **I'm the developer (as well as user)**. [](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/Please report](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/) if you found one, and **I'll try to fix the next chance I get**. Thanks!"_ ~[](https://bowo.io/bowoio-asenhaBowo](https://bowo.io/bowoio-asenha](https://bowo.io/bowoio-asenha)
125
126
127 ### Content Management
128
129 * **[[](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webPRO](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web)] Custom Content Types**. Conveniently register and edit custom post types and custom taxonomies without writing a single line of code. Optionally enable the creation of custom field groups.
130 * **Content Duplication**. Enable one-click duplication / clone / copy of pages, posts and custom posts. The corresponding taxonomy terms and post meta will also be duplicated.
131 * **Content Order**. Enable custom order for pages, posts and custom post types. Useful for displaying them in the desired order in wp-admin and on the frontend. e.g. projects, services, FAQs, team members, testimonials, etc.
132 * **[[](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webPRO](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web)] Media Categories**. Add categories for the media library and enable drag-and-drop categorization of media items. Categories can then be used to filter media items during media insertion into content.
133 * **Media Replacement**. Easily replace any type of media file with a new one while retaining the existing media ID, publish date and file name. So, no existing links will break.
134 * **SVG Upload**. Allow some or all user roles to upload SVG files, which will then be sanitized to keep things secure.
135 * **[[](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webPRO](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web)] AVIF Upload**. Enable uploading AVIF files in the Media Library.
136 * **External Permalinks**. Enable pages, posts and/or custom post types to have permalinks that point to external URLs. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits. Compatible with links added using [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/Page Links To](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/).
137 * **Open All External Links in New Tab**. Force all links to external sites to open in new browser tab via target="\_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
138 * **Allow Custom Navigation Menu Items to Open in New Tab**. Allow custom navigation menu items to have links that open in new browser tab via target="\_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
139 * **Auto-Publish Posts with Missed Schedule**. Trigger publishing of scheduled posts of all types marked with "missed schedule", anytime the site is visited.
140
141 ### Admin Interface
142
143 * **Clean Up Admin Bar**. Remove various elements from the admin bar.
144 * Remove WordPress logo/menu
145 * Remove customize menu/link
146 * Remove updates counter/link
147 * Remove comments counter/link
148 * Remove new content menu
149 * Remove 'Howdy' text
150 * Remove the Help tab and drawer
151 * **Hide Admin Notices**. Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar.
152 * **Disable Dashboard Widgets**. Clean up and speed up the dashboard by completely disabling some or all widgets. Disabled widgets won't load any assets nor show up under Screen Options.
153 * **Hide Admin Bar**. Hide it on the front end for all or some user roles.
154
155 * **Wider Admin Menu**. Give the admin menu more room to better accommodate wider items.
156 * **Admin Menu Editor / Organizer**. Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally change menu item title or hide some items.
157 * **[[](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webPRO](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web)] Admin Columns Manager**. Manage and organize columns in the admin listing for pages, posts and custom post types.
158 * **Enhance List Tables**. Improve the usefulness of listing pages of various post types by adding / removing columns and elements.
159 * _Show the featured image column_: in the list tables for pages and post types that support featured images.
160 * _Show the excerpt column_: in the list tables for pages and post types that support excerpt.
161 * _Show the ID as a column or in the action rows_: in the list tables for pages, all post types, all taxonomies, media, users and comments.
162 * _Show custom taxonomy dropdown filter(s)_: on the list tables of all post types for taxonomies that are hierarchical like post categories.
163 * _Remove the comments column_: in in the list tables for pages, post types that support comments, and also media/attachments.
164 * _Remove the post tags column_: in the list table for posts.
165
166 ### Log In / Log Out
167
168 * **Change Login URL**. Improve site security by using a custom login URL, e.g. www.example.com/backend
169 * **Site Identity on Login Page**. Use the site icon and URL to replace the default WordPress logo with link to wordpress.org on the login page.
170 * **Log In/Out Menu**. Enable log in, log out and dynamic log in/out menu item for addition to any menu.
171 * **Last Login Column**. Log when users on the site last logged in and display the date and time in the users list table.
172 * **Redirect After Login / Logout**. Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login / logout.
173
174 ### Custom Code
175
176 * **[[](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webPRO](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web)] Code Snippets Manager**. Conveniently add and manage CSS, JS, HTML and PHP code snippets to modify your site's content, design, behaviour and functionalities
177 * **Custom Admin CSS**. Add custom CSS on all admin pages for all user roles.
178 * **Custom Frontend CSS**. Add custom CSS on all frontend pages for all user roles.
179 * **Insert <head>, <body> and <footer> Code**. Easily insert <meta>, <link>, <script> and <style> tags, Google Analytics, Tag Manager, AdSense, Ads Conversion and Optimize code, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter pixels, etc.
180 * **Custom Body Class**. Add custom <body> class(es) on the singular view of some or all public post types. Compatible with classes already added using [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-classCustom Body Class plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-class](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-class).
181 * **Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt**. Easily edit and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt content.
182 * **Manage robots.txt**. Easily edit and validate your robots.txt content.
183
184 ### Disable Components
185
186 * **Disable Gutenberg**. Disable the Gutenberg block editor for some or all applicable post types. Optionally disable frontend block styles / CSS files for the selected post types.
187 * **Disable Block-Based Widgets Settings Screen**. Restores the classic widgets settings screen when using a classic (non-block) theme.
188 * **Disable Comments**. Disable comments for some or all public post types. When disabled, existing comments will also be hidden on the frontend.
189 * **Disable REST API**. Disable REST API access for non-authenticated users and remove URL traces from <head>, HTTP headers and WP RSD endpoint.
190 * **Disable Feeds**. Disable all RSS, Atom and RDF feeds. This includes feeds for posts, categories, tags, comments, authors and search. Also removes traces of feed URLs from <head>.
191 * **Disable All Updates**. Completely disable core, theme and plugin updates and auto-updates. Will also disable update checks, notices and emails.
192 * **Disable Smaller Components**. Prevent smaller components from running or loading. Make the site more secure, load slightly faster and be more optimized for crawling by search engines.
193 * Disable the **generator <meta> tag** in <head>, which discloses the WordPress version number. Older versions(s) might contain unpatched security loophole(s).
194 * Disable **version number** on static resource URLs referenced in <head>, which can disclose WordPress version number. Older versions(s) might contain unpatched security loophole(s).
195 * Disable the **Windows Live Writer (WLW) manifest <link> tag** in <head>. The WLW app was discontinued in 2017.
196 * Disable the **Really Simple Discovery (RSD) <link> tag** in <head>. It's not needed if your site is not using pingback or remote (XML-RPC) client to manage posts.
197 * Disable the default **WordPress shortlink <link> tag** in <head>. Ignored by search engines and has minimal practical use case. Usually, a dedicated shortlink plugin or service is preferred that allows for nice names in the short links and tracking of clicks when sharing the link on social media.
198 * Disable loading of **dashicons CSS and JS files** on the front-end for public site visitors.
199 * Disable **emoji support for pages, posts and custom post types** on the admin and frontend. The support is primarily useful for older browsers that do not have native support for it. Most modern browsers across different OSes and devices now have native support for it.
200 * Disable **jQuery Migrate** script on the frontend, which should no longer be needed if your site uses modern theme and plugins.
201
202 ### Security
203
204 * **Limit Login Attempts**. Prevent brute force attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts allowed per IP address.
205 * **Obfuscate Author Slugs**. Obfuscate publicly exposed author page URLs that shows the user slugs / usernames, e.g. _sitename.com/author/username1/_ into _sitename.com/author/a6r5b8ytu9gp34bv/_, and output 404 errors for the original URLs. Also obfuscates in _/wp-json/wp/v2/users/_ REST API endpoint.
206 * **Email Address Obfuscator**. Obfuscate email address to prevent spam bots from harvesting them, but make it readable like a regular email address for human visitors.
207 * **Disable XML-RPC**. Protect your site from brute force, DOS and DDOS attacks via XML-RPC. Also disables trackbacks and pingbacks.
208
209 ### Optimizations
210
211 * **Image Upload Control**. Resize newly uploaded, large images to a smaller dimension and delete originally uploaded files. BMPs and non-transparent PNGs will be converted to JPGs and resized.
212 * **Revisions Control**. Prevent bloating the database by limiting the number of revisions to keep for some or all post types supporting revisions.
213 * **Heartbeat Control**. Modify the interval of the WordPress heartbeat API or disable it on admin pages, post creation/edit screens and/or the frontend. This will help reduce CPU load on the server.
214
215 ### Utilities
216
217 * **Email Delivery**. Set custom sender name and email. Optionally use external SMTP service to ensure notification and transactional emails from your site are being delivered to inboxes. Send a test email to check if configuration works as intended.
218 * **Multiple User Roles**. Enable assignment of multiple roles during user account creation and editing. This maybe useful for working with roles not defined in WordPress core, e.g. from e-commerce or LMS plugins.
219 * **View Admin as Role**. View admin pages and the site (logged-in) as one of the non-administrator user roles.
220 * **Password Protection**. Password-protect the entire site to hide the content from public view and search engine bots / crawlers. Logged-in administrators can still access the site as usual.
221 * **Maintenance Mode**. Show a customizable maintenance page on the frontend while performing a brief maintenance to your site. Logged-in administrators can still view the site as usual.
222 * **Redirect 404 to Homepage**. Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages.
223 * **Display System Summary**. Show quick summary of the system the site is running on to admins, in the "At a Glance" dashboard widget. This includes the web server software, the PHP version, and the database software.
224
225 Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) will include more enhancements, tweaks and useful features in future versions. Please [](https://bowo.io/feedback-asenhagive feedback](https://bowo.io/feedback-asenha](https://bowo.io/feedback-asenha) on must-have plugins or code snippets you enable on sites that you manage, and the functionalities will be considered for inclusion as well.
226
227 ### ASE Pro
228
229 **Pro version** with Lifetime Deal (LTD) is available at [](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-webwww.wpase.com](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/rdme-to-web).
230
231 ### Give Back
232
233 * [](https://bowo.io/asenha-rvw-dsc**A nice review**](https://bowo.io/asenha-rvw-dsc](https://bowo.io/asenha-rvw-dsc) would be great!
234 * [](https://bowo.io/asenha-fdbk-dsc**Give feedback**](https://bowo.io/asenha-fdbk-dsc](https://bowo.io/asenha-fdbk-dsc) and help improve future versions.
235 * [](https://bowo.io/asenha-trnslt-dsc**Help translate**](https://bowo.io/asenha-trnslt-dsc](https://bowo.io/asenha-trnslt-dsc) plugin description on this page into your language.
236 * **Sponsor ASE Free** with as little as USD 1, [](https://bowo.io/asenha-sp-gth-rdm**monthly**](https://bowo.io/asenha-sp-gth-rdm](https://bowo.io/asenha-sp-gth-rdm) or [](https://bowo.io/asenha-sp-ppl-rdm**one-time**](https://bowo.io/asenha-sp-ppl-rdm](https://bowo.io/asenha-sp-ppl-rdm).
237
238 ### Check These Out Too
239
240 * [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/system-dashboard/System Dashboard](https://wordpress.org/plugins/system-dashboard/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/system-dashboard/): Central dashboard to monitor various WordPress components, processes and data, including the server.
241 * [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-log-manager/Debug Log Manager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-log-manager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-log-manager/): Log PHP, database and JavaScript errors via WP_DEBUG with one click. Conveniently create, view, filter and clear the debug.log file.
242 * [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/variable-inspector/Variable Inspector](https://wordpress.org/plugins/variable-inspector/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/variable-inspector/): Inspect PHP variables on a central dashboard in wp-admin for convenient debugging.
243 * [](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dscWordPress Newsboard](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dsc](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dsc): The latest news, articles, podcasts and videos from 100+ WordPress-focused sources.
244
245 ## Screenshots
246
247 1. Content Management
248 ![Content Management](.wordpress-org/screenshot-1.png)
249 2. Admin Interface
250 ![Admin Interface](.wordpress-org/screenshot-2.png)
251 3. Log In | Log Out
252 ![Log In | Log Out](.wordpress-org/screenshot-3.png)
253 4. Custom Code
254 ![Custom Code](.wordpress-org/screenshot-4.png)
255 5. Disable Components
256 ![Disable Components](.wordpress-org/screenshot-5.png)
257 6. Security
258 ![Security](.wordpress-org/screenshot-6.png)
259 7. Optimizations
260 ![Optimizations](.wordpress-org/screenshot-7.png)
261 8. Utilities
262 ![Utilities](.wordpress-org/screenshot-8.png)
263 9. Admin Menu Organizer module
264 ![Admin Menu Organizer module](.wordpress-org/screenshot-9.png)
265 10. Email Delivery module
266 ![Email Delivery module](.wordpress-org/screenshot-10.png)
267
268 ## Frequently Asked Questions
269
270 ### Why build this plugin?
271
272 Hoping that this is useful in reducing the number of plugins we install the first time we set up a site.
273
274 ## Changelog
275
276 **Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) v1.0.0** was released on October 17, 2022. Since then, there have been **59 _point_ releases** (e.g. 1.1.0 ) and **48 _patch_ releases** (e.g. 4.9.1).
277
278 Each **_point release_** usually corresponds with the addition of one new module/feature. Each module/feature usually is the equivalent of one (or more) single-purpose plugin. Each **_patch release_** usually contain one or more bugfix or improvements to existing modules/features.
279
280 [](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-web**Upgrade to ASE Pro**](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-web) now. Lifetime Deal (LTD) available.
281
282 ### 6.0.4 (2023.10.26) - ASE Free and Pro
283
284 * **[IMPROVED][FREE] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: Removed broad-sweeping CSS rules that unintentionally affected notices that were not supposed to be hidden into the admin notices panel. Props to Ingo R. for reporting the issue with MainWP site connection error notice being hidden on page load.
285
286 * **[IMPROVED][FREE] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable version number**: will now only remove version number from static assets in the public view (non-logged-in) of pages. Props to Ingo R for reporting that ACSS auto-BEM feature in Bricks was missing it's button in the structure panel, and was caused by version number being removed from static assets.
287
288 * **[FIXED][FREE][PRO] PHP Deprecation notice in PHP 8.1:** which showed up when `null` was unintentionally passed into `preg_replace()` during the rendering of some ASE setting fields. Props to Stewart R. for reporting the issue.
289
290 * **[FIXED][PRO] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer:** now correctly shows all submenu items. Props to Henry R. for reporting an issue where several of Elementor's 'Templates' menu's submenu items gone missing when this module was enabled.
291
292 ### 6.0.3 (2023.10.18) - ASE Free and Pro
293
294 * **[FIXED][FREE] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: Plugin description and update success message will now remain visible after plugin update process is completed on the Plugins listing page.
295 * **[FIXED][PRO] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager**: CSS fixes for the activate / deactivate / publish / update box on each snippet.
296 * **[FIXED][FREE] Utilities >> Display System Summary**: CSS fix to ensure system summary is displayed in alignment with other elements in the At a Glance widget
297
298 ### 6.0.2 (2023.10.17) - ASE Pro
299
300 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: Will now render the value of custom fields added using default WordPress UI/metabox for managing custom fields. This is rendered using [](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/`get_post_meta()`](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/). Props to Upekkha for reporting it.
301
302 ### 6.0.1 (2023.10.13) - ASE Pro
303
304 * **[FIXED] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager**: PHP Warning: undefined variable. Props to Michael S.P. for reporting it.
305 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Columns Manager**: PHP Warning: undefined array key 0. Props to Sam for reporting it.
306 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Custom Content Types**: PHP Deprecation: creation of dynamic properties. Props to Steven for reporting it.
307 * **[FIXED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**: .jpeg files will now properly be converted to .webp. Props to Julian S for reporting it.
308
309 ### 6.0.0 (2023.10.11)
310
311 * **[ADDED] Log In | Log Out >> Site Identity on Login Page**: Use the site icon and URL to replace the default WordPress logo with link to wordpress.org on the login page. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/@cooper08](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julians3/@julians3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julians3/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julians3/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-wp-logo/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-wp-logo/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-wp-logo/) along with the code snippet.
312
313 * **[PRO] The Pro version of ASE is here. Lifetime Deal (LTD) is available.** Find out more at [](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-webwpase.com](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-web](https://www.wpase.com/chnlg-to-web).
314
315 ### 5.8.1 (2023.10.05)
316
317 * **[FIXED] wp_die error message** when updating to v5.8.0. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysiberian/@verysiberian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysiberian/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysiberian/) for the prompt and detailed [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wsod-on-all-sites-after-update/report](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wsod-on-all-sites-after-update/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wsod-on-all-sites-after-update/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrlkd/@wrlkd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrlkd/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrlkd/), [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockwildaz/@rockwildaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockwildaz/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockwildaz/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amnwtritaly/@amnwtritaly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amnwtritaly/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amnwtritaly/) for helping out with troubleshooting.
318
319 ### 5.8.0 (2023.10.05)
320
321 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable version number**: You can now hide version number which by default is part of static resource (CSS/JS) URLs in the <head>. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/@cooper08](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cooper08/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-smaller-components/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-smaller-components/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-smaller-components/) along with the code snippet.
322
323 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable jQuery Migrate**: You can now disable the jQuery Migrate script from loading on the frontend. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueoaks/@blueoaks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueoaks/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueoaks/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-jquery-migrate/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-jquery-migrate/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-jquery-migrate/).
324
325 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: This is now limited to site admins only. Editors, Authors and other user roles will see notices as usual.
326
327 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: Notices under each plugin that has an update in the Plugins list page now shows up normally where it was previously missing/hidden when Hide Admin Notices is active. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venkeyaccent/@venkeyaccent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venkeyaccent/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venkeyaccent/), [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmdeck/@dmdeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmdeck/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmdeck/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/computerbuddha/@computerbuddha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/computerbuddha/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/computerbuddha/) for reporting this issue [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-hide-admin-notices/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-hide-admin-notices/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-hide-admin-notices/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-admin-notices-issue/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-admin-notices-issue/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-admin-notices-issue/).
328
329 * **[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu**: Now works when wp-admin is in Right-to-Left (RTL) languages. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mehdimoradi7172/@mehdimoradi7172](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mehdimoradi7172/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mehdimoradi7172/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wider-admin-menu-rtl-issue/reporting the issue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wider-admin-menu-rtl-issue/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wider-admin-menu-rtl-issue/).
330
331 * **[IMPROVED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: Default lost password URL no longer accessible directly and must now include custom login slug. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banijadev/@banijadev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banijadev/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banijadev/) for discovering the issue and [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-support-hidden-lost-password-path/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-support-hidden-lost-password-path/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-support-hidden-lost-password-path/).
332
333 * **[IMPROVED] Content Management >> Media Replacement**: media-replace-frontend.css no longer loads for site visitors. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/@cvladan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/) for discovering the issue and [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-load-media-replace-frontend-css-on-frontend/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-load-media-replace-frontend-css-on-frontend/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-load-media-replace-frontend-css-on-frontend/).
334
335 * **[SECURITY] Utilities >> Password Protection**: Patched a bypass vulnerability disclosed responsibly by security researcher Abu Hurayra via Pathstack, regarding the authentication cookie. It now uses wp_hash_password() and wp_check_password().
336
337 ### 5.7.1 (2023.09.12)
338
339 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg**: Fixed PHP Warnings. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ysintos/@ysintos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ysintos/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ysintos/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/@ofmarconi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/) for reporting this issue [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-upload-images-after-last-update-5-7-0/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-upload-images-after-last-update-5-7-0/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-upload-images-after-last-update-5-7-0/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-class-disable-components-php-on-line-238/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-class-disable-components-php-on-line-238/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-class-disable-components-php-on-line-238/).
340
341 * **[FIXED] Custom Code >> Custom Admin / Frontend CSS**: Fix for escaped symbols being output on inlined stylesheets. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4niwp/@d4niwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4niwp/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4niwp/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-admin-and-frontend-css-selector-is-converted-into/reporting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-admin-and-frontend-css-selector-is-converted-into/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-admin-and-frontend-css-selector-is-converted-into/).
342
343 ### 5.7.0 (2023.08.30)
344
345 * **[NEW] Refreshed UI for ASE admin page.** This is largely based off of the UI/X design work generously provided by [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinodeboer/@rinodeboer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinodeboer/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinodeboer/). Thanks so much Rino!
346
347 * **[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices:** Handle additional notices which appears on an admin pages that have been encapsulated inside an additional div, which is sometimes done by plugins that modifies a WP core admin screen.
348
349 * **[IMPROVED] Refactored admin-page.js**, the main js file used to build out ASE's admin page. It's tidier and smaller now.
350
351 * **[CHANGED] Move Enhance List Table module inside Admin Interface tab** and reorganize modules in that tab for better logical grouping / sequencing.
352
353 ### 5.6.2 (2023.08.25)
354
355 * **[FIXED] JS error in admin-page.js.** Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyguzman/@andyguzman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyguzman/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyguzman/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avif-jquery-breaking-the-settings-page/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avif-jquery-breaking-the-settings-page/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avif-jquery-breaking-the-settings-page/).
356
357
358 ### 5.6.1 (2023.08.24)
359
360 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Media Replacement**: Fixed PHP Warnings. Thanks to Marco for reporting this issue.
361
362 * **[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: Fixed missing commas in JS file to target certain notice divs. Notices no longer 'flash' briefly now before being hidden inside the notices panel. Thanks to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/@cvladan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvladan/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-another-plugin-suggestion/suggesting the fix](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-another-plugin-suggestion/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-another-plugin-suggestion/).
363
364 ### 5.6.0 (2023.08.14)
365
366 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Display System Summary**: Show quick summary of the system the site is running on to admins, in the "At a Glance" dashboard widget. This includes the web server software, the PHP version, and the database software. Props to Keith for suggesting this.
367
368 * **[IMPROVED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**: Improve SQL query for creating the failed logins log table so it is more compatible with a wider range of DB setups.
369
370 ### 5.5.2 (2023.08.09)
371
372 * **[IMPROVED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg**: default WP post types (wp_template, wp_template_part, wp_global_styles, wp_navigation) are now removed from the Disable Gutenberg settings.
373
374 * **[IMPROVED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: when a hidden menu item is selected, i.e. the admin page for it is being viewed, the menu item will now remain visible along with it's sub-menu items. This makes for a better UX overall, reducing back and forth clicks of the "Show All" toggle. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/@tomhung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaer/@dvaer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaer/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaer/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-show-all-menu-stay-open-when-on-closed-menu-item/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-show-all-menu-stay-open-when-on-closed-menu-item/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-show-all-menu-stay-open-when-on-closed-menu-item/).
375
376 * **[IMPROVED] Disable Components >> Disable Feeds**: the /feed/ page now will properly return 403 Forbidden response. It was previously showing 500 error when a site is inspected with [](https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/Sucuri malware and security checker](https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/](https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/). The code changes for this was produced by ChatGTP via [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/@ofmarconi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ofmarconi/)'s [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/#post-16957833prompt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/#post-16957833](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/#post-16957833) as part of his [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/detailed report and investigation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sucuri-error-500-disable-feed/) on the issue. Thank you!
377
378 * **In-Kind Sponsorship**: If anyone has spare license for [](https://generateblocks.com/pro/GenerateBlocks Pro](https://generateblocks.com/pro/](https://generateblocks.com/pro/), [](https://blockstudio.dev/Blockstudio](https://blockstudio.dev/](https://blockstudio.dev/), [](https://www.lazyblocks.com/Lazy Blocks](https://www.lazyblocks.com/](https://www.lazyblocks.com/), [](https://cubewp.com/CubeWP](https://cubewp.com/](https://cubewp.com/) and/or [](https://wsform.com/WS Form](https://wsform.com/](https://wsform.com/) that you'd like to donate to my test site for ASE, please [](https://bowo.ioget in touch](https://bowo.io](https://bowo.io). Thank you!
379
380 ### 5.5.1 (2023.08.07)
381
382 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer:** some plugins register their menu item with a super-late priority, e.g. 10000, so, ASE can not organize them properly. Changes have been made to accommodate such scenario. Props to [](https://github.com/gd4web@gd4web](https://github.com/gd4web](https://github.com/gd4web) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/features-request-and-issue-reporting/reporting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/features-request-and-issue-reporting/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/features-request-and-issue-reporting/) in detail.
383
384 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Content Order:** Fix for PHP errors that appear if a post type has been de-registered while content ordering is still enabled for it in ASE.
385
386 * **[FIXED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts:** Fixed an issue for when 'sql_require_primary_key' is set in the DB, e.g. managed MySQL DB in DigitalOccean, ASE would churn out "Attempt to create or modify table without primary key" error. Props to [](https://github.com/gd4webGreg Mount](https://github.com/gd4web](https://github.com/gd4web) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attempt-to-create-or-modify-table-without-primary-key/reporting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attempt-to-create-or-modify-table-without-primary-key/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attempt-to-create-or-modify-table-without-primary-key/) in great detail and suggesting the fix.
387
388 * **[IMPROVED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments:** Add filter to prevent anonymous comment via XML-RPC. Props to [](https://github.com/bzosel@bzosel](https://github.com/bzosel](https://github.com/bzosel) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-was-added-although-comments-disabled/reporting an issue with disabling comment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-was-added-although-comments-disabled/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-was-added-although-comments-disabled/) that prompted this improvement.
389
390 * **[NEW MONTHLY SPONSOR] Thank you @maeonian for being a new monthly sponsor at USD 2 / month!** ASE is now at 6 of 10 of the monthly sponsors goal. It doesn't take much to sponsor ASE for the time and effort savings you may have gained by using it on your sites. You can [](https://github.com/sponsors/qriousladbe one](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad) today!
391
392 ### 5.5.0 (2023.08.04)
393
394 * **[ADDED] Security >> Email Address Obfuscator**. Obfuscate email address to prevent spam bots from harvesting them, but make it readable like a regular email address for human visitors. Props to [](https://github.com/nassukesso@nassukesso](https://github.com/nassukesso](https://github.com/nassukesso) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-address-obfuscating/suggesting this feature](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-address-obfuscating/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-address-obfuscating/).
395
396 * **[FIXED] In some scenarios, ASE settings page only shows the category tabs while not showing any of the actual modules settings**. Props to John B. for reporting this and facilitating troubleshooting. He also kindly provided licenses to premium plugins on my test site, that will help with ASE development and maintenance in the future. If you have spare licenses for [](https://elementor.com/pro/~~Elementor Pro~~](https://elementor.com/pro/](https://elementor.com/pro/), [](https://wpspectra.com/pro/~~Spectra Pro~~](https://wpspectra.com/pro/](https://wpspectra.com/pro/), [](https://bricksbuilder.io/~~Bricks~~](https://bricksbuilder.io/](https://bricksbuilder.io/), [](https://cwicly.com/~~Cwicly~~](https://cwicly.com/](https://cwicly.com/) and/or [](https://crocoblock.com/plugins/jetengine/~~JetEngine~~](https://crocoblock.com/plugins/jetengine/](https://crocoblock.com/plugins/jetengine/) that you'd like to donate to my test site, please [](https://bowo.ioget in touch](https://bowo.io](https://bowo.io).
397
398
399 ### 5.4.1 (2023.07.31)
400
401 * **[Fixed] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**. Fixed an error on sites with older version of MySQL / MariaDB that caused the failure of DB table creation to be used to log failed login attempts. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwsim539/Ken Sim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwsim539/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwsim539/) for [](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4reporting this](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4) in great detail, which made it much easier to fix. Ken has also kindly became a [](https://github.com/sponsors/qriousladmonthly sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad) of my work. Thanks Ken! I'm now at 5 of my initial goal of [](https://github.com/sponsors/qriousladgetting 10 monthly sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad](https://github.com/sponsors/qriouslad). 🙂
402
403 * **[IMPROVED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables >> Show featured image column:** will now replace the default product thumbnail column on WooCommerce product listing page, and no longer show both columns. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/studio84digital/@studio84digital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/studio84digital/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/studio84digital/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-featured-image-column-woocommerce/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-featured-image-column-woocommerce/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-featured-image-column-woocommerce/) on the [](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-site-enhancements/).
404
405 ### 5.4.0 (2023.07.25)
406
407 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Allow Custom Navigation Menu Items to Open in New Tab**. Allow custom navigation menu items to have links that open in new browser tab via target="\_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits. Props to [](https://github.com/tomhung@tomhung](https://github.com/tomhung](https://github.com/tomhung) for [](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4suggesting this feature](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4) and providing the [](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2567854code snippet](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2567854](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2567854) to base it upon.
408
409 * Checked compatibility with WordPress v6.3 RC1
410
411 ### 5.3.2 (2023.07.15)
412
413 * **[FIXED] Disable Smaller Components >> Disable the generator meta tag:** fixed PHP fatal error in some scenarios for PHP v8.0+. Props to [](https://github.com/swissspidy@swissspidy](https://github.com/swissspidy](https://github.com/swissspidy) for [](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4reporting it](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/4) on Github.
414
415 * **[IMPROVED] Content Management >> External Permalinks:** removed jQuery dependency on the front-end in public.js. Replaced script with pure JS version churn out by ChatGPT which was prompted by Marco M.J. So, yes... first AI usage in ASE code. Pretty cool. 🙂
416
417 ### 5.3.1 (2023.07.14)
418
419 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets:** fixed PHP warning. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mohobook/@mohobook](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mohobook/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mohobook/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-error-media-replacement-not-working/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-error-media-replacement-not-working/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-error-media-replacement-not-working/).
420
421 * **[IMPROVED] Content Management >> Open All External Links in New Tab:** will now exclude relative URLs which points to internal URLs from being opened in a new tab. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francismacomber/@francismacomber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francismacomber/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/francismacomber/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/open-all-external-links-in-new-tab-misidentifies-relative-urls-as-external/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/open-all-external-links-in-new-tab-misidentifies-relative-urls-as-external/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/open-all-external-links-in-new-tab-misidentifies-relative-urls-as-external/).
422
423 ### 5.3.0 (2023.07.08)
424
425 * **[IMPROVED] Utilities >> Email Delivery**: You can now send a test email to verify if your custom sender name/email and SMTP configuration work as intended. Props to many users for suggesting this in the support forum [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-test-email-delivery/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-test-email-delivery/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-test-email-delivery/), [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-smtp-email-delivery/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-smtp-email-delivery/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-smtp-email-delivery/), [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/), [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/check-smtp-by-sending-an-email/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/check-smtp-by-sending-an-email/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/check-smtp-by-sending-an-email/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-add-a-test-option-for-smtp/here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-add-a-test-option-for-smtp/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-add-a-test-option-for-smtp/).
426
427 ### 5.2.11 (2023.07.05)
428
429 * **[IMPROVED] Utilities >> Password Protection** This will now also work on non-HTTPS sites. Props to Sascha for reporting the issue via the contact form at [](https://bowo.iobowo.io](https://bowo.io](https://bowo.io) and providing great detail about what was done to try and troubleshoot it, and later on found the root cause of the issue, which made fixing the issue much simpler.
430
431 ### 5.2.10 (2023.06.30)
432
433 * **[IMPROVED] Utilities >> Email Delivery** Custom sender name / email can now be set and enforced independent of delivery via external SMTP service/account. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcwilson18/@lcwilson18](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcwilson18/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcwilson18/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/suggesting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-email-delivery/).
434
435 ### 5.2.9 (2023.06.27)
436
437 * **[FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Redirect After Login** will now correctly redirect to an internal wp-admin page, e.g. wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page (View All Pages). Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/@tomhung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-after-login-wont-redirect-to-internal-page/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-after-login-wont-redirect-to-internal-page/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-after-login-wont-redirect-to-internal-page/).
438
439 ### 5.2.8 (2023.06.26)
440
441 * **[IMPROVED] Front-end public.js** will only be loaded if relevant modules that use it are enabled. Props to Martin M. for reporting the issue via the contact form at [](https://bowo.iobowo.io](https://bowo.io](https://bowo.io) and Maxime D. via Facebook message.
442
443 ### 5.2.7 (2023.06.26)
444
445 * **[FIXED] Custom Code**: Possible fix for CodeMirror (code editor) JS error caused by jQuery not being explicitly set as a dependency. When this happens, ASE's admin page is rendered blank / useless. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarah-haruel/@sarah-haruel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarah-haruel/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarah-haruel/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-site-enhancements-ase-disabled-when-slideshow-se-activated/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-site-enhancements-ase-disabled-when-slideshow-se-activated/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-site-enhancements-ase-disabled-when-slideshow-se-activated/).
446 * **[IMPROVED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: Improve module description to avoid confusion with renaming the entire /wp-admin/ as opposed to renaming just the login URL. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/max-ziebell/Maz Ziebell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/max-ziebell/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/max-ziebell/) for the suggestion.
447 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg**: Fixed PHP warning when saving a CPT post where gutenberg has been disabled. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/@gregmount](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-gutenberg-throws-php-warning/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-gutenberg-throws-php-warning/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-gutenberg-throws-php-warning/).
448 * **[ADDED] A dismissible Sponsorship / Rating / Feedback nudge/notice** has been added to ASE's admin page (only), which will appear after every 10 consecutive clicks of the "Save changes" button. This is a way to try and gain additional support for ASE's ongoing development and maintenance. I hope you don't mind. 🙂
449
450 ### 5.2.6 (2023.06.24)
451
452 * **[FIXED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**: Fixed PHP warning issue. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomo55555/@tomo55555](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomo55555/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomo55555/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-error-reported/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-error-reported/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-error-reported/).
453
454 ### 5.2.5 (2023.06.22)
455
456 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection**: Fixed the issue that causes the password protection form/page to have no styling after v5.2.4 patch release. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/@gregmount](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/v5-2-4-breaks-styling-on-password-protection/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/v5-2-4-breaks-styling-on-password-protection/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/v5-2-4-breaks-styling-on-password-protection/).
457
458 ### 5.2.4 (2023.06.21)
459
460 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Dashicons**: Fixed PHP warning when executing WP CLI commands. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/@tomhung](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhung/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-strpos-empty-needle-2/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-strpos-empty-needle-2/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-strpos-empty-needle-2/).
461
462 * **[RESOLVED] Unable to Save Changes in ASE**: This is caused by plugin conflict which happens when [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/WP STAGING - Backup Duplicator & Migration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/) is active. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/@kilimats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-save-14/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-save-14/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-save-14/) and to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/@allbutone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/) for liasing with the developer of WP Staging to [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-conflict-prevents-saving/fix things on their end](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-conflict-prevents-saving/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-conflict-prevents-saving/).
463
464 ### 5.2.3 (2023.06.18)
465
466 * **[FIXED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**: fixed a small code error that prevented image resizing from actually happening. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matija80/@matija80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matija80/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matija80/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-upload-control-resizing-doesnt-work/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-upload-control-resizing-doesnt-work/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-upload-control-resizing-doesnt-work/).
467
468 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets**: fixed "array offset on value of type bool" error. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grizdev/@grizdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grizdev/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grizdev/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-dashboard-widgets-produces-array-offset-on-value-of-type-bool-error/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-dashboard-widgets-produces-array-offset-on-value-of-type-bool-error/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-dashboard-widgets-produces-array-offset-on-value-of-type-bool-error/).
469
470 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu**: fixed an issue where wider admin menu pushed WooCommerce page header content to shift right and be cut-off from the screen. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malaga16/@malaga16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malaga16/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malaga16/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-sidebar-custom-with-problem/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-sidebar-custom-with-problem/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-sidebar-custom-with-problem/).
471
472 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection**: fixed PHP Warning. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/@gregmount](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregmount/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-on-password-protected-login/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-on-password-protected-login/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-warning-on-password-protected-login/).
473
474 ### 5.2.2 (2023.06.14)
475
476 * **[FIXED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**: fixed redirection loop that happens when custom login URL is enabled and user has reached the allowed failed login attempts count. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/@allbutone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allbutone/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-limit-login-attempts/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-limit-login-attempts/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-limit-login-attempts/) and narrowing down the steps to replicate the issue reliably, which helps with troubleshooting.
477
478 ### 5.2.1 (2023.06.13)
479
480 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments**: Fixed an issue where a JS alert saying "Are you sure you want to do this? The comment changes you made will be lost." popups when trying to update a page / post / post type where commenting has been disabled. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dagaloni/@dagaloni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dagaloni/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dagaloni/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-you-sure-you-want-to-to-this-popup-for-updateting-page/thoroughly reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-you-sure-you-want-to-to-this-popup-for-updateting-page/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-you-sure-you-want-to-to-this-popup-for-updateting-page/) with screenshots and steps to replicate the issue.
481
482 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> View Admin as Role**: Provide a simple and secure method to regain administrator access when something goes wrong while switching to non-administrator role. This occasionally happens when the login session ended and you're being logged out by the system. Instruction on how to regain administrator access has been added to the settings section for the module. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cebuss/@cebuss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cebuss/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cebuss/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-avoid-locking-people-out-of-their-site/thoroughly reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-avoid-locking-people-out-of-their-site/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-avoid-locking-people-out-of-their-site/) and providing a way to regain access via direct changes to the database.
483
484 * **[SECURITY] Utilities >> View Admin as Role**: Make sure only users performing role switching can access the role switcher admin bar menu. This ensures that non-administrator users logging in normally won't see the menu and prevent them from performing role switching.
485
486 ### 5.2.0 (2023.06.10)
487
488 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Wider Admin Menu**. Give the admin menu more room to better accommodate wider items. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/@dvaer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/) and [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/@kilimats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kilimats/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wider-admin-menu/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wider-admin-menu/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wider-admin-menu/).
489
490 ### 5.1.0 (2023.06.04)
491
492 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Block-Based Widgets Settings Screen**. Restores the classic widgets settings screen when using a classic (non-block) theme. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ruralinfo/@ruralinfo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ruralinfo/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ruralinfo/) and [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/@dvaer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dvaer/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-gutenberg-for-widget-page/suggesting this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-gutenberg-for-widget-page/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-disable-gutenberg-for-widget-page/).
493 * **[FIXED] UTILITIES >> SMTP Email Delivery**: fixed an issue where 'from' email is using WP default wordpress@site.com instead of the email defined in module settings. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/@scarlywebs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/) and the continued help in testing.
494 * **[ENHANCED] UTILITIES >> SMTP Email Delivery**: added option to force the usage of the FROM name/email defined in module settings. [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/#post-16762588Suggested](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/#post-16762588](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smtp-from-not-working/#post-16762588) by [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/@scarlywebs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/).
495 * **[FIXED]** Custom, right-side footer text now only shows on the plugin's main settings page.
496
497 ### 5.0.2.4 (2023.06.01)
498
499 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery**: fixed an issue with encoding / decoding of stored password that prevented proper functioning of this module. **Please re-enter your password and save changes**.
500 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection**: fixed an issue with encoding / decoding of stored password that prevented proper functioning of this module. **Please re-enter your password and save changes**.
501
502 ### 5.0.2.3 (2023.05.25)
503
504 * **[FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: URLs that start with the custom login slug no longer redirects to the login page. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netzzjd/@netzzjd](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netzzjd/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netzzjd/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects/).
505
506 ### 5.0.2.2 (2023.05.24)
507
508 * **[FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: URLs for lost password flow, i.e. password reset flow, are now accessible when this module is enabled. It will no longer redirect to the not_found (404) page. Props to [](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/@scarlywebs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scarlywebs/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-reset-url-link/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-reset-url-link/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-reset-url-link/) and help with testing all the way.
509
510 ### 5.0.2 (2023.05.09)
511
512 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> View Admin as Role**: is now only accessible / usable for administrators.
513 * **[ENHANCE] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: improved description and UI for better clarity.
514 * **[POLISH] General code polish** to resolve several PHP warnings.
515
516 ### 5.0.1 (2023.04.29)
517
518 * **[FIXED] WordPress Newsboard link in footer** showing up on all wp-admin pages. Now will only show up on the plugin's main page.
519
520 ### 5.0.0 (2023.04.29)
521
522 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Content Order**. Enable custom ordering of various content types. Useful for displaying them in the desired order in wp-admin and on the frontend. e.g. projects, services, FAQs, team members, etc.
523 * **[FIXED] Utilities >> Password Protection**: Fix PHP Warning error. Props to [](https://github.com/cvladan@cvladan](https://github.com/cvladan](https://github.com/cvladan) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-php-warning/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-php-warning/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-php-warning/).
524 * **[CHANGED] Content Management >> Page and Post Duplication** module has been renamed to "Content Duplication".
525 * **[ADDED] Translate link** on plugin page's header and in the .org plugin description page. Please [](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/consider helping to translate](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/) the plugin description (a.k.a. README). There are about 100 strings/sentences in it. This will help expand the reach of Admin and Site Enhancements into people who read/speak your language. Special props to [Angelika Reisiger
526 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/la-geek/), General Translation Editor for Deutsch (German) #de_DE, for tackling translation of the plugin description into [](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/default/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/German](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/default/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/default/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/) and [](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/formal/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/German (formal)](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/formal/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/](https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/formal/wp-plugins/admin-site-enhancements/).
527 * **[ADDED] Link to [](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dscWordPress Newsboard](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dsc](https://bowo.io/asenha-wpn-dsc)** in plugin page's footer. This is another thing I created back in 2014 and is still working to aggregate the latest news, articles, tutorials, podcasts and videos from 100+ WordPress-centric sources.
528
529 ### 4.9.3 (2023.04.22)
530
531 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable REST API**: fix for error when trying to save edits in Gutenberg editor when Disable REST API module is turned on. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexgraphicd/@alexgraphicd](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexgraphicd/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexgraphicd/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-edits-to-posts-or-pages-when-rest-api-is-disabled/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-edits-to-posts-or-pages-when-rest-api-is-disabled/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-edits-to-posts-or-pages-when-rest-api-is-disabled/).
532
533 ### 4.9.2 (2023.04.22)
534
535 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments**: fix for certain scenarios where comment form is still shown despite commenting being disabled on the post type. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/crazyserb/@crazyserb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/crazyserb/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/crazyserb/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-comments-functionality-doesnt-work-either/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-comments-functionality-doesnt-work-either/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-comments-functionality-doesnt-work-either/), providng temporary admin access, as well as screenshots to help with troubleshooting!
536
537 ### 4.9.1 (2023.04.19)
538
539 * **[ENHANCEMENT] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**. LearnDash pages was showing up notices below header. This fix will now move them into the hidden, toggleable notices panel.
540
541 ### 4.9.0 (2023.04.16)
542
543 * **[ENHANCEMENT] Content Management >> External Permalinks**. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will now be added to external permalinks for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
544 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Open All External Links in New Tab**. Force all links to external sites to open in new browser tab via target="\_blank" attribute. The rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" attribute will also be added for enhanced security and SEO benefits.
545
546 ### 4.8.3 (2023.04.15)
547
548 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Content Duplication**: fixed isses when duplicating pages built with Oxygen and Bricks builder. May also solve similar issues with other page builders. Please try this on your page builder installation and report in the forum if you're still experiencing issues.
549
550 ### 4.8.2 (2023.04.03)
551
552 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: fix for some menu items missing / being hidden in the menu item sortables. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisplaneta/@chrisplaneta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisplaneta/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisplaneta/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/#post-16620272reporting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/#post-16620272](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-of-useful-features-works-without-problems/#post-16620272).
553
554 ### 4.8.1 (2023.04.03)
555
556 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: now hides notices on some plugins' pages where an extra div exist above the notice divs.
557 * **[FIXED] Log In | Log Out >> Change Login URL**: fix an issue where sometimes successful login would redirect to /not_found/ URL.
558 * **[ENHANCEMENT] Content Management >> Media Replacement**: added browser cache busting via jQuery to ensure the new image is shown on the media/attachment edit page after performing replacement. Elsewhere on wp-admin and on the front end, a hard reload is still needed to flush out browser cache for the old image.
559
560 ### 4.8.0 (2023.04.02)
561
562 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Multiple User Roles**: Enable assignment of multiple roles during user account creation and editing. This maybe useful for working with roles not defined in WordPress core, e.g. from e-commerce or LMS plugins.
563
564
565 ### 4.7.4 (2023.03.05)
566
567 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables >> Show ID in Action Rows**: on the list tables for pages, all post types, all taxonomies, media, users and comments. Props to [](https://github.com/cvladan@cvladan](https://github.com/cvladan](https://github.com/cvladan) for the [](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/2feature suggestion](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/2](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/issues/2).
568
569 ### 4.7.3 (2023.03.03)
570
571 * **[FIXED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**: "Unexpected response" error in the media uploader when uploading non-JPG files.
572
573 ### 4.7.2 (2023.02.25)
574
575 * **[FIXED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Emojis** now properly disables emojis in admin pages.
576
577 ### 4.7.1 (2023.02.24)
578
579 * **[CHANGED] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode**. When maintenance mode is enabled, an admin bar icon is shown as an indicator.
580 * **[CHANGED] Utilities >> Password Protection**. Change background color of admin bar status icon from green to red, to better indicate that the site is (currently) inaccessible to the general public.
581
582 ### 4.7.0 (2023.02.24)
583
584 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Maintenance Mode**. Show a customizable maintenance page on the frontend while performing a brief maintenance to your site. Logged-in administrators can still view the site as usual.
585 * **[CHANGED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components >> Disable Dashicons CSS and JS** now excludes the login page. This ensures the login page CSS styles is correctly loaded.
586 * **[CHANGED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery**. Slight improvement to copy/description for improved clarity.
587
588 ### 4.6.0 (2023.02.22)
589
590 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> SMTP Email Delivery**. Use external SMTP service to ensure notification and transactional emails from your site are being delivered to inboxes.
591
592 ### 4.5.0 (2023.02.17)
593
594 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Clean Up Admin Bar >> Remove the Help tab and drawer**.
595 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Smaller Components**. Prevent smaller components from running or loading. Make the site more secure and load slightly faster. This includes disabling the generator <meta> tag, the Windows Live Writer (WLW) manifest <link> tag, the Really Simple Discovery (RSD) <link> tag and the WordPress shortlink <link> tag in <head>, as well as disabling dashicons CSS and JS files for site visitors, and emoji support for pages, posts and custom post types.
596
597 ### 4.4.0 (2023.02.05)
598
599 * **[ADDED] Custom Code >> Custom Body Class**. Add custom <body> class(es) on the singular view of some or all public post types. Compatible with classes already added using [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-classCustom Body Class plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-class](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-body-class).
600
601 ### 4.3.1 (2023.02.05)
602
603 * **[CHANGED] Content Management >> Media Replace** option is no longer shown on the grid view of the media library. It will only show up on the attachment edit page which can be reached from both the list view via "Edit or Replace Media" link and the grid view media frame's "Edit more details" link.
604
605 ### 4.3.0 (2023.01.30)
606
607 * **[ADDED] Optimizations >> Image Upload Control**. Resize newly uploaded, large images to a smaller dimension and delete originally uploaded files. BMPs and non-transparent PNGs will be converted to JPGs and resized.
608 * **[CHANGED] Revisions Control** is now under the Optimizations category.
609 * **[CHANGED] View Admin as Role** is now under the Utilities category.
610 * **[CHANGED] Improve title of features** to be shorter and more consistent across categories.
611
612 ### 4.2.2 (2023.01.24)
613
614 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets**. Fixed a fatal error issue when there's a widget with priority 'high'. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/@samirhp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/).
615
616 ### 4.2.1 (2023.01.23)
617
618 * **[FIXED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets**. Fixed missing dashboard widgets list when first trying to activate the feature. Also fixes PHP fatal error when trying to view the dashboard when the feature is activated under such scenario. Props to [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/@samirhp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samirhp/) for [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/reporting it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-with-new-update-6/).
619
620 ### 4.2.0 (2023.01.23)
621
622 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Disable Dashboard Widgets**. Clean up and speed up the dashboard by completely disabling some or all widgets. Disabled widgets won't load any assets nor show up under Screen Options.
623
624 ### 4.1.0 (2023.01.16)
625
626 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Password Protection**. Password-protect the entire site to hide the content from public view and search engine bots / crawlers. Logged-in administrators can still access normally.
627
628 ### 4.0.1 (2023.01.12)
629
630 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Enable SVG Upload**: Fixed a bug where uploaded, non-SVG media files does not have metadata generated when Enable SVG Upload is enabled.
631
632 ### 4.0.0 (2023.01.04)
633
634 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable All Updates**. Completely disable core, theme and plugin updates and auto-updates. Will also disable update checks, notices and emails.
635
636 ### 3.9.2 (2023.01.03)
637
638 * **[FIXED] Custom Code >> Manage robots.txt**. Fixed [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/undefine-variable-field_option_value/"Undefined variable" issue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/undefine-variable-field_option_value/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/undefine-variable-field_option_value/) reported by [](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kwbrayton/kwbrayton](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kwbrayton/](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kwbrayton/). Also make this feature work on scenarios where an actual robots.txt file exists, not just the virtual one created by default, by WordPress. In such case, the robots.txt file will be renamed to robots_txt_backup_{timestamp}.txt when this feature is enabled. Vice versa, when the feature is disabled, the backup file will be renamed back to robots.txt, so it will be in use again as it were.
639
640 ### 3.9.1 (2022.12.29)
641
642 * **[FIXED] Content Management >> Enable External Permalinks**. Fixed an issue where default WordPress permalink for a post loads white, empty screen when no external permalink has been set for the post.
643
644 ### 3.9.0 (2022.12.29)
645
646 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enable External Permalinks**. Enable pages, posts and/or custom post types to have permalinks that point to external URLs. Compatible with links added using [](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/Page Links To](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/).
647
648 ### 3.8.0 (2022.12.27)
649
650 * **[ADDED] Optimizations >> Enable Heartbeat Control**. Modify the interval of the WordPress heartbeat API or disable it on admin pages, post creation/edit screens and/or the frontend. This will help reduce CPU load on the server.
651
652 ### 3.7.0 (2022.12.25)
653
654 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Revisions Control**. Prevent bloating the database by limiting the number of revisions to keep for some or all post types supporting revisions.
655
656 ### 3.6.1 (2022.12.22)
657
658 * **[CHANGED] Custom Code >> Manage robots.txt**. Fixed an issue where code editor was not rendered properly upon clicking the Custom Code tab.
659
660 ### 3.6.0 (2022.12.22)
661
662 * **[CHANGED] Added "Log In | Log Out" and "Custom Code" categories**. Recategorizes relevant features under these new categories.
663 * **[ADDED] Log In | Log Out >> Enable Last Login Column**. Log when users on the site last logged in and display the date and time in the users list table.
664
665 ### 3.5.0 (2022.12.19)
666
667 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Manage robots.txt**. Easily edit and validate your robots.txt content.
668
669 ### 3.4.0 (2022.12.16)
670
671 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Log In/Out Menu**. Enable log in, log out and dynamic log in/out menu item for addition to any menu. Depending on the user's logged-in status, the menu item will show up, disappear or change.
672
673 ### 3.3.0 (2022.12.12)
674
675 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Insert <head>, <body> and <footer> Code**. Easily insert <meta>, <link>, <script> and <style> tags, Google Analytics, Tag Manager, AdSense, Ads Conversion and Optimize code, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter pixels, etc.
676 * **[CHANGED] Utilities >> Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt** is now a single settings field.
677
678 ### 3.2.0 (2022.12.12)
679
680 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt**: Easily edit and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt content. Please backup existing ads.txt and app-ads.txt content and remove those files before copying the original content into the ads.txt and app-ads.txt manager in the Utilities tab. If no ads.txt / app-ads.txt files exist in the root directory of your WordPress installation, you can immediately add content for both files.
681
682 ### 3.1.0 (2022.12.11)
683
684 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Auto-Publishing of Posts with Missed Schedule**: Trigger publishing of scheduled posts of all types marked with "missed schedule", anytime the site is visited. Uses Transients API to reduce load to the DB on busy sites. Will only query the DB once every 15 minutes (at most).
685
686 ### 3.0.6 (2022.12.08)
687
688 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Enqueue jQuery UI widget.min.js for WP version less than 5.6.0. This ensures the feature works for those WP versions.
689
690 ### 3.0.5 (2022.12.08)
691
692 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Enqueue the minified version of jQuery UI scripts, as older versions of WP do not have the unminified version.
693
694 ### 3.0.4 (2022.12.07)
695
696 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Substantially lower priorities of actions that handles rendering of custom menu order, custom menu title and hiding of menu items. This is so that menu items added late by active plugins and theme are handled properly.
697
698 ### 3.0.3 (2022.12.07)
699
700 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Make sure menu item sortables reflect custom menu order saved in options, especially when this feature is re-enabled. Remove all HTMl tags and content inside them from menu item titles in the sortables.
701
702 ### 3.0.2 (2022.12.07)
703
704 * **[CHANGED] Hide stubborn notices** appearing inside the admin page header (via CSS).
705
706 ### 3.0.1 (2022.12.01)
707
708 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Make sure newer menu items added by newly installed plugins or activated theme are showing up towards the end of the admin menu and the menu item sortables. Comments and updates counters are now hidden. Sortables for menu separators have been faded out to make actual menu items stand out more.
709 * **[CHANGED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments**: Ensure trackbacks metabox is also hidden on edit screens of post types where commenting is disabled.
710
711 ### 3.0.0 (2022.11.30)
712
713 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Feeds**: Disable all RSS, Atom and RDF feeds. This includes feeds for posts, categories, tags, comments, authors and search. Also removes traces of feed URLs from <head>.
714
715
716 ### 2.9.0 (2022.11.30)
717
718 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable REST API**: Disable REST API access for non-authenticated users and remove URL traces from \<head\>, HTTP headers and WP RSD endpoint.
719
720 ### 2.8.3 (2022.11.29)
721
722 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Fix for missing Show All toggle in certain scenarios.
723
724 ### 2.8.2 (2022.11.29)
725
726 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Allow customizing menu item title, for menu items added by plugins or the active theme, i.e. not from WordPress core.
727
728 ### 2.8.1 (2022.11.28)
729
730 * **[CHANGED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Fixed the issue when menu items are no longer shown upon saving. This happened when Admin Menu Organizer was enabled and directly saved without making any changes to the menu order first.
731
732 ### 2.8.0 (2022.11.28)
733
734 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Gutenberg**: Disable the Gutenberg block editor for some or all applicable post types. Optionally disable frontend block styles / CSS files for the selected post types.
735
736 ### 2.7.0 (2022.11.27)
737
738 * **[ADDED] Disable Components >> Disable Comments**: Disable comments for some or all public post types. When disabled, existing comments will also be hidden on the frontend.
739 * **[CHANGED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**: Improved styling of empty datatable, i.e. when there is no failed login attempts logged.
740 * **[CHANGED] Settings tab position** is now saved to browser cookie, so it persists upon saving changes or revisiting it from elsewhere in wp-admin.
741 * **[CHANGED] Some code refactoring** to make logical separation and categorization of features clearer. CodeMirror and DataTables assets loading are also moved
742
743 ### 2.6.0 (2022.11.19)
744
745 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enable SVG Upload**: Allow some or all user roles to upload SVG files, which will then be sanitized to keep things secure.
746
747 ### 2.5.0 (2022.11.18)
748
749 * **[ADDED] Security >> Limit Login Attempts**: Prevent brute force attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts allowed per IP address.
750 * **[CHANGED] Security >> Custom Login URL** feature has been made compatible with Limit Login Attempts feature.
751 * **[CHANGED] Security >> Change Login URL** now works with the interim login modal window, the one that pops up when user is logged out in the background.
752 * **[CHANGED] Security >> Change Login URL** adds another process to ensure user is redirected to the dashboard after successful login. It was redirecting to the /not_found/ (404) page in rare occasions as [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects-to-not-found/reported by @vdrover](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects-to-not-found/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-login-url-redirects-to-not-found/).
753 * **[CHANGED] Utilities >> Redirect After Login** will correctly override default login redirection by Change Login URL.
754 * **[CHANGED] Improve code comments throughout**.
755
756 ### 2.4.0 (2022.11.10)
757
758 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Custom Frontend CSS**: Add custom CSS on all frontend pages for all user roles.
759
760 ### 2.3.0 (2022.11.09)
761
762 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Enable Custom Admin CSS**: Add custom CSS on all admin pages for all user roles.
763
764 ### 2.2.0 (2022.11.09)
765
766 * **[ADDED] Security >> Disable XML-RPC**: Protect your site from brute force, DOS and DDOS attacks via XML-RPC. Also disables trackbacks and pingbacks.
767 * **[ADDED] Expand/collapse toggle** for feature settings that takes up longer vertical space, e.g. Admin Menu Customizer.
768 * **[CHANGED] Refactor code around plugin settings page**. Now uses separate classes for sections and fields registration, for sanitization of field values and for rendering the fields on the admin page.
769
770 ### 2.1.0 (2022.11.08)
771
772 * **[ADDED] Security >> Obfuscate Author Slugs**: Obfuscate publicly exposed author page URLs that shows the user slugs / usernames, e.g. _sitename.com/author/username1/_ into _sitename.com/author/a6r5b8ytu9gp34bv/_, and output 404 errors for the original URLs. Also obfuscates in _/wp-json/wp/v2/users/_ REST API endpoint. Props to [](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/pull/1pull request](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/pull/1](https://github.com/qriouslad/admin-site-enhancements/pull/1) from [](https://github.com/wahyuiefWahyu Arief @wahyuief](https://github.com/wahyuief](https://github.com/wahyuief) and [](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-user-slug-hider/tags/4.0.2/inc/class-smart-user-slug-hider.phpfunctions](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-user-slug-hider/tags/4.0.2/inc/class-smart-user-slug-hider.php](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-user-slug-hider/tags/4.0.2/inc/class-smart-user-slug-hider.php) from [Smart User Slug Hider
773 ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-user-slug-hider/).
774
775 ### 2.0.0 (2022.11.06)
776
777 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Admin Menu Organizer**: Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally hide some items.
778
779 ### 1.9.0 (2022.11.03)
780
781 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide or Modify Elements**: Easily simplify or customize various admin UI elements, starting with the admin bar.
782 * **[CHANGED] Content Management >> Enhance List Tables**: this combines previously separate features related to list tables for various post types.
783
784 ### 1.8.0 (2022.11.03)
785
786 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> View Admin as Role**: View admin pages and the site (logged-in) as one of the non-administrator user roles.
787
788 ### 1.7.0 (2022.10.31)
789
790 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect 404 to Homepage**: Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages.
791
792 ### 1.6.0 (2022.10.31)
793
794 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect After Logout**: Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after logout.
795
796 ### 1.5.0 (2022.10.30)
797
798 * **[ADDED] Utilities >> Redirect After Login**: Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login.
799
800 ### 1.4.0 (2022.10.30)
801
802 * **[ADDED] Security >> Change Login URL**: allow for setting a custom login URL to improve site security.
803
804 ### 1.3.0 (2022.10.29)
805
806 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Bar**: Hide it on the front end for all or some user roles.
807
808
809 ### 1.2.0 (2022.10.28)
810
811 * **[ADDED] Admin Interface >> Hide Admin Notices**: Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar.
812
813 ### 1.1.0 (2022.10.22)
814
815 * **[ADDED] Content Management >> Enable Media Replacement**: Enable easy replacement of any type of media file with a new one while retaining the existing media ID and file name.
816
817 ### 1.0.0 (2022.10.17)
818
819 * Initial stable release.