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Do you ever wonder if it was possible to clean up the WordPress admin area for your users?

There are lots of things in the WordPress admin area that your users, authors, or clients don’t need to see or use. Cleaning up the admin area helps to keep them focused on only the options they need, without distracting clutter.

In this article, we will show you how to hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin.

Why Hide Unnecessary Items for WordPress Admin?

In the WordPress admin area, there are a lot of menus, submenus, options and plugin settings that you can change anytime. Some of these menu items include dashboard widgets, post edit area, plugins, appearance, tools, and more.

However, most of these menus and settings are not used on a daily basis and they end up cluttering the admin area. If you run a multi-author website or have clients visiting the admin area, then it’s a good practice to clean up the WordPress admin panel.

You can only keep menus and options that are useful for your authors and clients, and hide the rest of the submenus.

You may also want to deactivate items based on user roles by creating different admin interfaces for users with different roles and capabilities on your WordPress site.

That said, let’s look at how you can remove and hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin.

Note: This guide is about the admin menu that a registered user on your site sees when they log in. If you’re wanting to customize the navigation menus that all your website visitors see, then you should see our beginner’s guide on navigation menus in WordPress.

Hiding Menu Items from WordPress Admin

The easiest way to hide menus and items from WordPress admin panel is by using the Admin Menu Editor plugin. It’s a free WordPress plugin that lets you change the menu titles, URLs, icons, and more.

You can also hide menu items from the admin area, set user role permissions, and drag and drop menu items to organize your WordPress admin.

First, you’ll need to install and active the Admin Menu Editor plugin. For more details, please see our guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you can head over to Settings » Menu Editor from your WordPress dashboard. Next, you’ll see all your menu and submenu items under the ‘Admin Menu’ tab.

You can simply drag and drop your menu items to rearrange their order. There are also options to remove or add new menu items.

Next, go ahead and click the downwards arrow for any menu item to see more options. You can rename the menu title, change the target page, and more.

To hide a menu item for specific user, simply click the ‘Extra capability’ dropdown menu. After that, you can choose the user role who can view the menu item from the given options.

For example, let’s say you want to hide the Media menu and its submenus for all user roles except the administrator. To do that, simply click on the Extra capabilities dropdown menu and choose ‘Administrator’ under Roles.

Once you’re done, go ahead and save your changes.

Now the Media menu item will be visible to only the Administrator role and will be hidden to other user roles.

If someone still tries to access the hidden menu item by typing in the URL, then they’ll see the error message ‘You do not have sufficient permissions to access this admin page.’

You can now repeat these steps for hiding other menu items and plugins from the WordPress admin menu for different users.

We hope this article helped you hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin area. You may also want to check out our guide on how to get a free SSL certificate in WordPress and the best WooCommerce plugins.

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Do you want to add tooltips in your WordPress posts and pages?

Tooltips are additional pieces of information that show when your mouse hovers over certain words. It’s a helpful way to clarify your content.

In this article, we’ll show you how to add WordPress tooltips in your posts and pages.

Why Display Tooltips in Your WordPress Posts and Pages?

Tooltips display useful information in small boxes that pop up when you hover over an area on your WordPress site. They’re a great way to add clarity to your content.

You can use tooltips to add definitions of difficult words, highlight important facts, and reveal the sources of your information. Like footnotes, they can improve user experience and help build trust with your visitors.

However, tooltips should never be used for essential information. Your post should contain everything your readers need even if they don’t read the tooltip, just in case they don’t see them. You should also make sure you do not overuse tooltips, or they can become a distraction to your website visitors.

That being said, let’s look at how you can add tooltips to your WordPress posts and pages.

How to Add Tooltips in Your WordPress Posts and Pages

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the WordPress Tooltips plugin. To learn more, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Once the plugin is activated, there are several ways to add tooltips to your posts and pages. The first is to automatically add tooltips to certain keywords.

Adding Tooltips to Keywords Automatically

All you have to do is navigate to Tooltips » Add New to create a new tooltip. You need to start by adding a title.

This title is a keyword, and the tooltip will be automatically be displayed everywhere the keyword appears in your posts and pages. This can save you a lot of time, since you don’t need to add the tooltip in multiple locations throughout your website.

If you would like other words to also display the tooltip, then you can enter them in the synonyms section on the right of the screen. If you enter multiple synonyms, then they should be separated by the pipe symbol |.

Now, in the content section, add your tooltip. A tooltip might be only a few words long, or it could be several paragraphs of rich content with images and other media. However, keep in mind that you are writing content for a tooltip, not a full post, so keep it as brief as possible so it’s easily readable on any screen.

Once you’ve finished, you should click the ‘Publish’ button on the right of the screen. Now tooltips will be automatically displayed on your posts and pages wherever the tooltip’s title and synonyms are found.

Adding Tooltips Using Shortcode

Another way to add tooltips is to add a shortcode to the content of your posts and pages. This method is suitable for shorter tooltips, or when you want to display the tooltip just once instead of on every matching keyword on your website.

If you’re new to shortcodes, then you can learn more in our beginner’s guide on how to add a shortcode in WordPress.

To add your tooltip shortcode, first you need to create or edit the post or page where you wish to add the tooltip. Then you should add this shortcode where you wish the tooltip to be displayed:

[tooltips keyword="YOURKEYWORD" content="YOURTOOLTIPCONTENT"]

Simply replace YOURKEYWORD with the word or phrase you want to add the tooltip to, and replace YOURTOOLTIPCONTENT with the text you want to add to the tooltip. Be sure to leave the quotes in the shortcode so that it works properly.

You can preview the page to see the tooltip in action.

This is how it appears on our demo site.

Building a Glossary From Your Tooltips

Each tooltip is a description of a keyword, similar to what you would find in a dictionary or glossary. As you go on adding tooltips, it is as if you are building a basic glossary.

This is why the WordPress Tooltips plugin allows you to display a glossary of tooltips on your website. Simply add the [glossary] shortcode to the post or page where you want the glossary to appear.

After you have published the post or page, you can visit your website to see the glossary.

This is how it appears on our demo site. It includes the tooltips we added to the plugin’s tooltips list, but not the tooltips we created using shortcode.

If you want to customize the glossary, then you can do so from the Tooltips » Glossary Settings menu in your WordPress dashboard. Here you will find a number of options you can tweak on how the glossary will be displayed and what will be included.

For example, you can choose whether or not to display images in the glossary, and you can list the ID of any tooltips you don’t want to include.

We hope this tutorial helped you learn how to add tooltips to your WordPress posts and pages. You may also want to see our guide on how to create an email newsletter, or our expert comparison of the best free website hosting.

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Do you want to add a simple user password generator in WordPress?

Many WordPress users end up using weaker passwords for the sake of convenience. These passwords can be easily cracked by hackers, which makes your WordPress website vulnerable.

In this article, we’ll show you how to easily add a simple user password generator in WordPress. This would allow you or other registered users on your website to generate a strong password.

Why Use a Stronger Password Generator in WordPress?

By default, WordPress allows you to choose a password for your user account, but it doesn’t require that the password be secure.

The built-in password generator appears during WordPress installation, on the user registration page, and on the user profile page.

By clicking on the Generate Password button, users can generate a new strong password.

Similarly, when changing a password by editing their user profile, users can click on the ‘Set New Password’ button to generate unlimited combinations of unique strong passwords.

However, you’ll notice that it allows you to skip the password strength check by checking the ‘Confirm use of weak password’ option.

Similarly, any users registering on your website can also escape the strong password requirement by checking this option on the user registration page.

If you run a membership site or online store where many users have accounts, then this can seriously affect the security of your WordPress site.

That being said, let’s take a look at how to easily enforce secure passwords and require users to use the strong password generator instead.

Method 1. Enforce Strong Password Generator in WordPress

First, you need to install and activate the Password Policy Manager for WordPress plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you need to visit Password Policies page in WordPress admin area and click on the Enable Password Policies check box.

After that, you can set a site-wide password policy for all users. You can choose minimum password strength, enforce special characters and number usage, expire passwords after a period of time, and more.

Below that you can set additional advanced options for password security.

For instance, you can automatically reset passwords for inactive users, prevent users from reusing old passwords, or disallow users from resetting passwords on their own.

The plugin also allows you to limit login attempts to prevent brute force attacks. You can choose the number of login attempts a user can make, after which their account will be locked and login will be disabled for 24 hours.

You can also set a lock duration after which the accounts will be automatically unlocked. Alternatively, you can choose to manually unlock accounts by an administrator only.

Set Password Policies Depending on User Roles

The plugin also allows you to set different password policies based on user roles.

For instance, you can set different password requirements and security settings for authors, subscribers, customers, or members on your membership website.

Seeing the Password Generator in Action

The plugin will now automatically display a strong password generator on registration, profile, and password change screens in WordPress.

It will also prevent users from setting weaker passwords or bypassing your password policy.

Method 2. Strong Passwords in Custom User Registration and Login Forms

The password policy method above works well for default WordPress user registration and password reset forms.

However, if you are using a custom user registration and password reset form, then users may still find ways around your stronger password requirements.

One easy way to enforce strong passwords is by using WPForms. It is the best WordPress form builder plugin and allows you to easily create any kind of form including custom user registration and login page forms.

First, you need to install and activate the WPForms plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Note: You’ll need at least the Pro plan to access User Registration addon.

Upon activation, you need to visit the WPForms » Settings page to enter your license key. You can find this information under your account on the WPForms website.

After that, you need to visit the WPForms » Addons page and click on the Install Addon button under the ‘User Registration Addon’.

You are now ready to create your custom user registration and login forms.

Simply head over to WPForms » Add New page. First, you need to provide a title for your form and then choose the user registration form template.

This will load the form builder where you can edit form fields.

Simply click on the password field to edit and turn on ‘Enable Password Strength’ switch. Below that you can choose minimum password strength and set it to ‘Strong’.

You can now save your form and exit the form builder.

WPForms makes it super easy to add your forms anywhere on your website. Simply edit the post or page where you want to display your custom user registration form, and add the WPForms block to your content area.

After that, you need to select your custom user registration form under the block settings.

WPForms will then load a live preview of your form inside the editor.

You can now save and publish your post / page and preview your custom user registration form.

You’ll notice that as users fill in the password field they will be asked to use a stronger password. The form will not be submitted with a weaker password.

We hope this article helped you learn how to use the simple user password generator in WordPress and enforce stronger passwords on your WordPress website. You may also want to see our step-by-step guide on how to properly move from HTTP to HTTPS, or our expert pick of the best WordPress plugins for small business.

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