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Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE)

Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE)

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Description

Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) helps you to easily enhance various admin workflows and site aspects while replacing multiple plugins doing it.

Pro version with Lifetime Deal (LTD) is available at www.wpase.com.

Here’s a quick walkthrough of ASE Free at v7.1.5 by Jakson.

Here’s a detailed walkthrough of ASE Free at v7.0.3 by Pascal Claro.

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What Users Say

“ASE easily replaces a dozen or more plugins I install on every website project. Super lightweight and easy to use.” ~NetzzJD

“I bought the lifetime deal and was blown away by the quality, and the free version replaces SO many other plugins too. LOVE THIS!” ~Jacob Wonder

“ASE is an amazing plugin! Time and money saver. Thank you!” ~Iulian Baciu

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FEATURES & MODULES

67 modules in total:
55 free modules (28 has Pro features) | 12 Pro modules

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Content Management

  • [ASE Pro] Custom Content Types. Conveniently register and edit custom post types (CPT), custom taxonomies, custom field groups and options pages that integrates with Bricks, Breakdance, Oxygen and Elementor, and also compatible with Gutenberg and various block themes and plugins. You can also easily create a frontend posting form. This is an alternative for ACF Pro, Meta Box, Toolset, Pods, JetEngine or ACPT.
  • Content Duplication. One-click duplication of pages, posts and CPTs. ASE Pro enables duplication only for certain user roles and post types, and adds location option for duplication link.
  • Content Order. Enable custom ordering of various post types that are hierarchical or support page attributes, in wp-admin. ASE Pro enables ordering of post types that are non-hierarchical and does not support page attributes, including media / attachments. It also enable toggling taxonomy terms and / or excerpt on the ordering page and applying the custom order on the frontend including for adjacent posts navigation.
  • [ASE Pro] Terms Order. Enable custom ordering of terms from various taxonomies in wp-admin and on the frontend.
  • [ASE Pro] Media Categories. Add categories for the media library and enable drag-and-drop categorization of media items.
  • Media Replacement. Easily replace any type of media file with a new one while ensuring no existing links will break. ASE Pro allows replacing media from the grid view of media library as well.
  • SVG Upload. Allow some or all user roles to upload SVG files, which will then be sanitized to keep things secure.
  • AVIF Upload. Enable uploading AVIF files in the Media Library.
  • [ASE Pro] Public Preview for Drafts. Enable public preview for draft posts from some or all public post types.
  • External Permalinks. Enable pages, posts and/or custom post types to have permalinks that point to external URLs.
  • Open All External Links in New Tab. Force all links to external sites to open in new browser tab via target=”_blank” attribute.
  • 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.
  • Auto-Publish Posts with Missed Schedule. Trigger publishing of scheduled posts of all types marked with “missed schedule”, anytime the site is visited.

Admin Interface

  • Clean Up Admin Bar. Remove various default elements from the admin bar. ASE Pro enables removal of admin bar items from other plugins.
  • Hide Admin Notices. Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar. ASE Pro adds the option to also hide notices for non-admins.
  • Disable Dashboard Widgets. Clean up and speed up the dashboard by completely disabling some or all widgets.
  • Hide Admin Bar. Hide admin bar on the frontend for all or some user roles. ASE Pro also allows hiding the admin bar on the backend for all or some user roles.
  • [ASE Pro] Admin Logo. White label your admin area by making your branding stand out. Upload your brand logo in the admin bar or the (top of) admin menu.
  • Wider Admin Menu. Give the admin menu more room to better accommodate wider items.
  • Admin Menu Editor / Organizer. Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally change menu item title or hide some items. ASE Pro enables always hiding menu items for some or all user roles and reorder submenu items.
  • [ASE Pro] Admin Columns Manager. Manage and organize columns in the admin listing for pages, posts and custom post types. Currently supports ASE, ACF and Meta Box custom fields.
  • Show Custom Taxonomy Filters. Show additional filter(s) on list tables for hierarchical, custom taxonomies. ASE Pro adds option to show additional filter(s) for non-hierarchical taxonomies.
  • Enhance List Tables. Improve the usefulness of listing pages of various post types by adding / removing columns and elements, e.g. featured image, excerpt, last modified, ID, media file size columns.

  • Various Admin UI Enhancements: Various, smaller enhancements for different parts of the admin interface.

    • Media Library Infinite Scrolling: Re-enable infinite scrolling in the grid view of the media library.
    • Display Active Plugins First: Display active / activated plugins at the top of the Installed Plugins list.
    • [ASE Pro] Preserve Taxonomy Hierarchy: Preserve the visual hierarchy of taxonomy terms checklist in the classic editor.
    • [ASE Pro] Enable Dashboard Columns Settings: Enable manual settings of dashboard columns layout in Screen Options. You can choose between 1 to 4 columns.
    • [ASE Pro] Add User Role Slug(s) to Admin Body Classes: Useful for when you need to modify the admin area only for certain user role(s).
    • [ASE Pro] Add Usermame to Admin Body Classes: Useful for when you need to modify the admin area only for certain user(s).

  • Custom Admin Footer Text: Customize the text you see on the footer of wp-admin pages. ASE Pro enables media upload / insertion.

Log In/Out & Register

  • Change Login URL. Make the login URL more memorable and secure by customizing it. ASE Pro adds compatibility with login process in WooCommerce pages, i.e. account and checkout, and custom 404 redirect on default login URLs.
  • Login ID Type. Restrict login ID to username or email address only.
  • [ASE Pro] Login Page Customizer. Easily customize the design of the login page.
  • 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.
  • Log In/Out Menu. Enable log in, log out and dynamic log in/out menu item for addition to any menu.
  • Registration Column. Show users registration date. ASE Pro makes the column sortable.
  • Last Login Column. Log when users on the site last logged in and display the date and time in the users list table. ASE Pro makes the column sortable.
  • Redirect After Login / Logout. Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login / logout. ASE Pro adds an option to set separate redirect URL for each role.

Custom Code

  • [ASE Pro] Code Snippets Manager. Conveniently add and manage CSS / SCSS, JS, HTML and PHP code snippets to modify your site’s content, design, behaviour and functionalities.
  • Custom Admin CSS.
  • Custom Frontend CSS.
  • Insert <head>, <body> and <footer> Code. Easily insert <meta>, <link>, <script> and <style> tags for tracking, analytics, etc.
  • Custom Body Class.
  • Manage ads.txt and app-ads.txt.
  • Manage robots.txt.

Disable Components

  • Disable Gutenberg. Disable the Gutenberg block editor for some or all applicable post types. Optionally disable frontend block assets. ASE Pro adds an option to disable only on / except on certain post types, or on all post types.
  • Disable Comments. Disable comments for some or all public post types. ASE Pro adds an option to disable only on / except on certain post types, or on all post types.
  • Disable REST API. Disable REST API access for non-authenticated users and remove URL traces from <head>, HTTP headers and WP RSD endpoint. ASE Pro adds an option to enable access only for some, authenticated user roles, e.g. administrators, and also a way to exclude certain API routes from being disabled.
  • Disable Feeds. Disable all RSS, Atom and RDF feeds.
  • Disable All Updates. Completely disable core, theme and plugin updates and auto-updates. Will also disable update checks, notices and emails.
  • Disable Smaller Components. Prevent smaller components from running or loading. Those are generator <meta> tag, version number, Windows Live Writer (WLW) manifest <link> tag, Really Simple Discovery (RSD) <link> tag, WordPress shortlink <link> tag in <head>, and also dashicons CSS and JS files, emoji support, jQuery Migrate, block-based widgets settings screen, native lazy load of images, application passwords and plugin / theme editor.

Security

  • Limit Login Attempts. Prevent brute force attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts allowed per IP address. ASE Pro adds IP whitelisting, which is also useful to unblock users.
    [ASE Pro] CAPTCHA Protection. Support for ALTCHA self-hosted version (GDPR-compliant, open source, free), Google reCaptcha v2 and v3, and Cloudflare Turnstile for WordPress default login, password reset, registration and comment forms and WooCommerce login, password reset and registration forms.
  • Obfuscate Author Slugs. Obfuscate publicly exposed author page URLs that shows the user slugs / usernames.
  • Email Address Obfuscator. Obfuscate email address to prevent spam bots from harvesting them,. ASE Pro enables output of obfuscated mailto: link and also auto-obfuscation of email addresses in post content.
  • Disable XML-RPC. Protect your site from brute force, DOS and DDOS attacks via XML-RPC. Also disables trackbacks and pingbacks.

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. ASE Pro enables setting custom JPG conversion quality as well as an option for conversion to WebP with custom conversion quality.
  • Revisions Control. Prevent bloating the database by limiting the number of revisions to keep for some or all post types supporting revisions.
  • Heartbeat Control. Modify the interval of the WordPress heartbeat API or disable it on admin pages, post creation/edit screens and/or the frontend.

Utilities

  • 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. ASE Pro adds the option to specify a custom reply-to name and email, Bcc address(es), disable authentication and the option to log email delivery.
  • [ASE Pro] Form Builder. Enable the drag-and-drop creation of various types of forms (contact, feedback, booking, application, proposal, admission, support, survey, etc.) on the frontend to collect information from site visitors or users or members. 33 field types are available, including Net Promoter Score (NPS), Likert, Matrix of Uniform and Variable Dropdowns and CAPTCHA fields. Support custom form styles, multi-columns layout, email notification and auto responder.
  • [ASE Pro] Local User Avatar. Enable usage of any image from WordPress Media Library as user avatars.
  • Multiple User Roles. Enable assignment of multiple roles during user account creation and editing.
  • Image Sizes Panel. Display a panel showing and linking to all available sizes when viewing an image in the media library. ASE Pro adds a convenient button to copy the image URL on click.
  • View Admin as Role. View admin pages and the site (logged-in) as one of the non-administrator user roles.
  • Password Protection. Password-protect the entire site to hide the content from public view and search engine bots / crawlers. ASE Pro adds IP whitelisting and bypassing via URL parameter, and also applies design elements from the Login Page Customizer module.
  • Maintenance Mode. Show a simple maintenance message. ASE Pro adds option to set custom page and browser tab title, use WYSIWYG editor, use pattern, image, solid color background, apply custom CSS, and also add the option to use an existing page created with the block / classic editor or a page builder as the maintenance page. It also adds an option to exclude certain URLs and allow non-admins to access the frontend.
  • Redirect 404. Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages. ASE Pro adds option to set custom redirect URL.
  • Display System Summary. Show web server software, PHP version, database software and server IP address in the “At a Glance” dashboard widget. ASE Pro also shows the size of the site, database and root, wp-content, plugins, themes and upload folders.
  • Search Engines Visibility Status. Show admin bar status and admin notice when search engines are set to be discouraged from indexing the site. ASE Pro adds a way to prevent dev / staging sites from having search engine visibility enabled.

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ASE Pro

Lifetime Deal (LTD) is available at www.wpase.com.

LANGUAGES

ASE has been translated into 30+ languages. You can help translate ASE into your language(s).

Screenshots

  • Content Management
  • Admin Interface
  • Log In | Log Out
  • Custom Code
  • Disable Components
  • Security
  • Optimizations
  • Utilities
  • Admin Menu Organizer module
  • Email Delivery module

FAQ

How Do I Reset ASE Settings / Configuration?

If for whatever reason you need to remove ASE and reset the settings / configuration, please follow these steps:

  1. Access your website via FTP and delete ASE plugin folder at /wp-content/plugins/admin-site-enhancements/
  2. Login to your site via the default URL, /wp-admin/ or /wp-login.php
  3. Install SQL Buddy plugin, open it, and click on the wp_options table
  4. Use the small filter icon at the top of wp_options table rows, and filter for “option_name” => “contains” => “admin_site_enhancements”. You should get 3 options . Click on each one and hit the “Delete” icon in the bottom-right corner.
  5. Re-install and re-configure ASE as needed.

You can skip step 1 and 2 if you still have access to your wp-admin dashboard.

Does ASE Work With Multisite?

ASE does not officially support multisite. Please use at your own risk. That said, several users have reported that it works fine on their multisite when activated on each sub-site and not through network activation.

Reviews

A Must-Have Plugin!

April 26, 2025
Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) has quickly become an essential tool for all my WordPress projects. It offers so many smart improvements that make site management easier and more efficient. Thank you for creating such a valuable plugin!

Awesome, perfect, beautiful

April 11, 2025
Best, no words needed. Bought the pro version. Just signed up for wordpress org just to evaluate this plug-in.

Very powerful

April 7, 2025
It really is several plugins in one. It includes a number of security features.

Spent hours trying to get something different – big mistake

April 5, 2025
After running around different plugins, the end result is just getting our approved guest bloggers access to the contributor level and managing the interface using ASE. Anyone who is blogging these days, especially if they have some experience, knows Wordpress. It’s just as easy to give them limited control and to use ASE to make the UI less cluttered. Anyway – great tool.
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Contributors & Developers

“Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE)” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE)” has been translated into 23 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) v1.0.0 was released on October 17, 2022. Since then, there have been 78 major releases (e.g. 1.1.0 ) and 146 minor releases (e.g. 4.9.1), for a total of 224 releases.

Each major 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 minor release usually contain one or more bugfix or improvements to existing modules/features.

Upgrade to ASE Pro. Lifetime Deal (LTD) available.

7.8.8 (2025.04.28) – ASE Free and Pro

  • [IMPROVED in Pro] Custom Code >> Code Snippets Manager:

    • Implemented code snippets export and import via ASE settings page’s “Export | Import” panel. Props to Philippe G., Tanguy, Nicolas M., Dennis M., Jeremy L., Yasuyoshi T., Daniel, Simon and Hoang Hxn for suggesting this improvement.
    • Fixed an issue where PHP snippets that contains certain code was being truncated upon saving. Props to Markus F. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
    • Fixed an issue where PHP snippets that contains certain code was being malformed upon saving, causing the snippet to churn out an error. Props to Emile V. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
    • Fixed an issue where snippet description editor is not loaded properly in the snippet edit screen. Props to Jim R. for reporting the issue and facilitating the troubleshooting process.
    • Fixed a JS error when editing PHP snippet.
    • Fixed PHP warning that occurs when saving a JS snippet with certain options

  • [IMPROVED and FIXED in Free and Pro] ASE Settings:

    • ASE Free and Pro: Implement modules live search, so you can more easily and quickly get to the module settings you need. Props to wpman, Todd, Max Z. and Nathan I. for prompting this improvement.
    • ASE Pro: Fixed an issue where settings can not be imported when Admin Menu Organizer module is not enabled. Props to Hoang Hxn. for reporting the issue.
    • ASE Pro: Fixed an issue where translations are not properly loaded when the Form Builder module is enabled. Props to Hoang Hxn. for reporting the issue.

  • [IMPROVED in Pro] Disable Components >> CAPTCHA Protection >> Comment Form: make sure CAPTCHA assets are not loaded when commenting is allowed on an individual post while disabled for the entire post type via the Disable Comments module.

  • [CHANGED in Free and Pro] Translations: make sure that translations are always loaded from the included .mo files. Props to Hoang Hxn for prompting this improvement.

  • [IMPROVED and FIXED in Pro] Utilities >> Form Builder:

    • Added custom CSS for email templates. Props to Mathijs v.d.B. for prompting this improvement.
    • Fixed an issue where form preview are devoid of any styling after v7.8.7 release. Props to John E. for prompting the fix.
    • Fixed an issue where form inserted with the form block in the block editor is devoid of any styles. Props to John E. for prompting this fix.
    • Added new error message for the upload field when the PHP tmpfile() function is disabled / not available, which will cause uploads to fail. Props to Eric L. for propmting this improvement.
    • Fixed PHP warnings when sending test emails.

  • [IMPROVED in Pro] Content Management >> Custom Content Types: added a warning message when rendering the [post_cf_form] shortcode in edit mode but no post ID has been set.

  • [FIXED in Free and Pro] Log In/Out & Register >> Change Login URL: fixed a conflict with Gravity Forms causing the file upload field, when set to upload multiple files, to fail with a JS error. Props to Henry R. for reporting the issue.

  • [TRANSLATION in Free and Pro] ASE is now being translated into 31 languages:

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Issues resolved in last two months:

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