WordPress SEO by Yoast has an action hooked to 'admin_init' that redirects to their about page. This is annoying, especially when you have updated other plugins, themes or WordPress core at the same time. It is essentially hijacking your workflow. This simple plugin (with no UI) removes the hooked action so that the redirect does not take place.
Credits: Kevin Miller wrote the function; Donna McMaster turned it into a plugin. Thanks also to Mark Jaquith for the inspiration provided by Menu Humility.
Menu Humility
Some plugins (I'm looking at you, Automattic) put top level nav menus in the first menu group, right under "Dashboard." This is annoying. These things are invariably less important than your posts, pages, comments, etc. This simple plugin (with no UI) shoves these line-cutting menus to the bottom, w.........
Custom Menu (+ Desc) Widget
Slightly modifies the built in Custom Menu widget to also show descriptions. Adds a span class of "CMWdesc" for easy styling. Borrows code from here as well (for the walker class rewrite). No guarantees of fitness for anything, I just couldn't find a plugin to do this simple thing so made one myself.........
WP Dessert Menu
Put a WordPress navigation menu in your admin toolbar
WP Snack Menu comes with a few filters to let you customize the menu if needed.
It comes fully documented to allow you to reuse it for any number of custom menus....
Hide Option for Ozh's Admin Drop Down Menu
Only use this plugin if you already have Ozh's Admin Drop Down Menu installed.
Ozh's Admin Drop Down Menu is a great ui option
But it should be an option that does not effect every author, editor and admin on a website
If you like this plug-in please give it a five star rating, blog about it, Twee.........
Horizontal Admin Menu
Horizontal Admin Menu moves your existing WordPress admin menu to the top of the screen. Existing submenus show
as drop-down menus when you mouse over a top level menu. This lightweight plugin alters existing WordPress
styles so the menus match the default admin theme. Each admin user may choose to .........
Editor Menu and Widget Access
This lightweight plugin allows users with the role Editor to access the Menus and Widgets areas of the Appearance menu in WordPress' admin area. This is a common task that would be useful for clients to manage themselves to give them more control over their website's content.
This plugin also gives.........
Add To Menus Lite
Add to Menus provides a quick link in your WordPress Admin Bar to quickly add a menu item link for the post & page that you are viewing....
Search Engine Visibility Warning
Show a warning message in admin header area when your blog visibility is blocked for search engines.
Also, when your blog is visible for everyone, hides the de-indexing option to avoid accidental changes....
Admin Menus Fixed
What you need, where you need it - and when.
For WordPress 3.8 to 4.2+ - Backward compatibile to WordPress 3.5 (see Other Notes)
Works with: Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu 3.6+ and AG Custom Admin 1.2.5+
Admin Menus Fixed Three Ways: As a companion to Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu AND/OR AG Custom Admin OR.........
Remove admin menus by roles
Select easily which admin menus to remove for which roles....
