Title: Sort Admin Menus
Author: Janis Elsts
Published: <strong>Июль 27, 2008</strong>
Last modified: Ноябрь 9, 2017

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Sort Admin Menus

 By [Janis Elsts](https://profiles.wordpress.org/whiteshadow/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sort-admin-menus.1.2.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/sort-admin-menus/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/sort-admin-menus/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/sort-admin-menus/#installation)
 * [Development](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/sort-admin-menus/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sort-admin-menus/)

## Description

This plugin sorts the items in the Settings” and Tools” dashboard menus in alphabetical
order. Useful when you have lots of plugins installed and very cluttered menus as
a result. The plugin should work well with most drop-down menu” plugins and other
visual enhancements.

You can configure which menus are sorted by editing the source code. Yes, hackety-
hack 🙂

## Installation

To install the plugin follow these steps :

 1. Download the sort-admin-menus.zip file to your local machine.
 2. Unzip the file
 3. Upload sort-admin-menus” folder to the /wp-content/plugins/” directory
 4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

That’s all. You might need to reload the page before menus will appear sorted.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

To install the plugin follow these steps :

 1. Download the sort-admin-menus.zip file to your local machine.
 2. Unzip the file
 3. Upload sort-admin-menus” folder to the /wp-content/plugins/” directory
 4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

That’s all. You might need to reload the page before menus will appear sorted.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edf1e6fbfb2473746039905a836b6ed314f15b2a8ea549965ed0ae67dfa260a9?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Still works fine for us!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-works-fine-for-us/)󠁿

 [Anonymous User 14711860](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anonymized-14711860/) 
Октябрь 23, 2016

So incredibly useful, why this isn’t a default I do not know!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesn't work!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-1334/)󠁿

 [sergio.pinna.prato](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergiopinnaprato/) Сентябрь
3, 2016

Nope, Doesn’t work! 🙁

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Excellent!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-3110/)󠁿

 [Earnie Rhyker](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rhyker2u/) Сентябрь 3, 2016

This should be part of WordPress … 10 years ago already! This plugin is such a blessing.
Especially with 10+ plugins. Or 50-60 in our case.

 [ Read all 5 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sort-admin-menus/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Sort Admin Menus” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Janis Elsts ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/whiteshadow/)

[Translate “Sort Admin Menus” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/sort-admin-menus)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sort-admin-menus/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/sort-admin-menus/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/sort-admin-menus/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/sort-admin-menus/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2.3

 * Tested up to WP 4.9-alpha.
 * Fixed a potential plugin conflict (function names should have a unique prefix).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.3**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **70+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sort-admin-menus/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[dashboard](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)
   [design](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/design/)[interface](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/interface/)
   [menu](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/menu/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://os.wordpress.org/plugins/sort-admin-menus/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.2 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  4 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sort-admin-menus/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sort-admin-menus/reviews/?filter=4)
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 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sort-admin-menus/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sort-admin-menus/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sort-admin-menus/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Janis Elsts ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/whiteshadow/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sort-admin-menus/)