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Karasunouta Admin Menu Folder

Karasunouta Admin Menu Folder

By karasunouta
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Description

Karasunouta Admin Menu Folder is a simple and lightweight plugin that aggregates multiple WordPress admin sidebar menu items into a clean, dedicated submenu folder.

As you install more plugins, your admin sidebar easily becomes cluttered with items you rarely touch. Karasunouta Admin Menu Folder lets you tuck away infrequently used menus into a single organized folder. This allows you to build a streamlined sidebar focused exclusively on your daily essential menus, while maintaining immediate access to all other tools whenever you need them.

Key Features

  • Streamlined Sidebar: Keep your sidebar focused on daily high-frequency menus while preserving immediate access to secondary items inside the folder.
  • Easy Toggle Interface: Drag-free intuitive checkbox interface for managing menu items in the settings page.
  • Admin Bar Shortcut: Option to display a direct link to the settings page in the top admin bar.
  • Submenu Settings Link: Option to place a settings link at the top or bottom of the submenu folder.
  • Clean & Lightweight: Uses standard WordPress core hooks with no external bloat or performance impact.

Optional Pro Version

The free version of Karasunouta Admin Menu Folder is a complete, fully functional plugin designed to keep your WordPress admin sidebar clean and focused using a single organized folder.

For agency client work, larger websites, or advanced administration workflows, Karasunouta Admin Menu Folder Pro offers extended capabilities to give you total control over the admin navigation.

Perfect for Client Work & Handoffs

When delivering WordPress sites to clients, third-party plugin menus can easily clutter the dashboard. This overwhelming clutter often confuses clients and increases support inquiries. With the Pro version, you can organize menus into dedicated, purpose-specific folders (e.g., „Maintenance“, „Security“, „Analytics & SEO“) with custom folder names and Dashicons. Deliver a clean, professional, and clutter-free admin dashboard that inspires confidence.

👉 View Pro details and pricing

Free vs Pro Feature Comparison

  • Number of Folders: [Free] 1 folder (automatically generated). / [Pro] Create and manage multiple folders.
  • Folder Name: [Free] Fixed to „Menu Folder“. / [Pro] Fully customizable (e.g., „Maintenance“, „Security“).
  • Folder Icon: [Free] Fixed standard folder icon. / [Pro] Fully customizable (choose suitable Dashicons for each folder).
  • Menu Item Order: [Free] Fixed (follows original WordPress sidebar order). / [Pro] Freely draggable & reorderable.
  • Folder Order: [Free] Fixed (single folder). / [Pro] Freely reorderable among multiple folders.

Source Code & Development

The source code for this plugin is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/karasunouta/karasunouta-admin-menu-folder

Screenshots

Settings screen — intuitive toggle checkboxes and real-time folder preview.
Settings screen — intuitive toggle checkboxes and real-time folder preview.
Before configuration — admin sidebar cluttered with many third-party plugin menus.
Before configuration — admin sidebar cluttered with many third-party plugin menus.
After configuration — selected menus are cleanly aggregated into a single folder.
After configuration — selected menus are cleanly aggregated into a single folder.
Accessing stored items — expanding the folder to navigate to a stored menu (e.g., selecting "Menu Folder > LightStart").
Accessing stored items — expanding the folder to navigate to a stored menu (e.g., selecting „Menu Folder > LightStart“).
Preserved submenu functionality — opening a stored plugin (such as LightStart) displays its screen and seamlessly reveals all of its native child items (e.g., "LightStart > About us") in the sidebar.
Preserved submenu functionality — opening a stored plugin (such as LightStart) displays its screen and seamlessly reveals all of its native child items (e.g., „LightStart > About us“) in the sidebar.

Installation

  1. Upload the karasunouta-admin-menu-folder directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin directly through the WordPress plugins screen.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to ‘Settings’ > ‘Admin Menu Folder’ to manage and organize your sidebar menu items.

FAQ

How many menu items can I put in the folder?

Up to 99 items. Items are listed inside the folder in the same order as they appear in the original admin sidebar, so the folder stays predictable no matter how many plugins you add.

What happens if I remove every item from the folder?

The folder disappears from the admin sidebar entirely. Nothing is left behind, and every menu item returns to its original position. Add an item again and the folder comes back.

Will moving menu items change their functionality or permissions?

No. Karasunouta Admin Menu Folder only changes the location where menu links are rendered in the admin sidebar. User capabilities and plugin page URLs remain unchanged.

Why can’t I move the ‘Settings’ menu into the folder?

The ‘Settings’ (options-general.php) root menu is intentionally protected as a core system menu and cannot be moved into a folder. Because ‘Settings’ serves as the primary hub for essential WordPress configuration screens (General, Reading, Permalinks, etc.) as well as this plugin’s own settings page, keeping it always directly accessible in the main sidebar ensures seamless administration and prevents navigation conflicts.

How do I access child menu items of a menu item placed inside a folder?

Click on the menu item inside the folder (e.g., Submenu Folder > Target Menu). This opens the parent page and expands its submenu structure in the sidebar, allowing you to access all of its child items.

Why this design? WordPress admin menus natively support only up to 2 levels of hierarchy. Forcibly hacking or overriding core menu scripts to create deep nested dropdowns risks breaking layout compatibility and causing conflicts with other plugins or future WordPress updates. Our clean, core-compliant approach provides a safe, reliable, and practical 3-tier menu experience without stability risks.

Is there a Pro version available?

Yes! While the free version gives you a complete, standalone solution for cleaning up your sidebar into a single folder, Karasunouta Admin Menu Folder Pro adds multi-folder support, custom icons and titles, and drag-and-drop reordering.
👉 View Pro details and pricing

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“Karasunouta Admin Menu Folder” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.5.2.1

  • Docs: Expand Pro version comparison and add official store links.

1.5.2

  • Enhance: Add kamf_after_settings_form_actions action hook for custom extensions after settings form actions.

1.5.1.1

  • Docs: Update tags and verified compatibility with WordPress 7.1.

1.5.1

  • Fix: Ensure settings saved notification renders cleanly in-place without visual layout shifts.
  • Enhance: Automatically sort menu items in the folder by their original WordPress menu positions, and add the kamf_folder_items filter hook for custom ordering.

1.5.0

  • Enhance: Escape every generated value at the point it is printed, and remove all static analysis suppressions so the whole codebase is checked.
  • Enhance: Submit settings as structured form fields instead of a JSON blob, fixing a case where menu titles containing „<“ could truncate the saved data.
  • Enhance: Prevent the Settings root menu from being selected, since it was never movable into the folder.
  • Enhance: Load admin assets only on the plugin settings screen.
  • Refactor: Simplify the stored option structure and expose the folder title, icon, node list and protected slugs through documented filters.

1.4.0

  • Refactor: Rename plugin to Karasunouta Admin Menu Folder with official slug and prefix kamf per WordPress.org guidelines.

1.3.0

  • Enhance: Introduce wp.hooks extension architecture for modular frontend integration.
  • Enhance: Improve folder slug and title synchronization with registered admin menu nodes.
  • Refactor: Align codebase and internal naming with WordPress.org coding standards.

1.2.1

  • Fix: Ensure consistent admin menu item ordering across different environments with or without custom_menu_order filters.

1.2.0

  • Refine user interface and asset loading scripts.
  • Update i18n compatibility and default translation files.

1.1.0

  • Introduce @wordpress/scripts asset minification and build pipeline.

1.0.0

  • Initial commit.

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