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Admin Notices Manager
Tame the dashboard chaos by tucking those noisy notices into the toolbar.
Declining
81/100
The plugin moves admin notices to the toolbar to reduce dashboard clutter.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.9★
21 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-32%
Declining fast
33 → 22 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORdownloads down 32% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -32% in the last year
33/day a year ago→22/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAdmin Notices Manager is well-regarded as a clean, lightweight solution for taming WordPress admin notices, though a minority of users have encountered compatibility friction with security plugins like Wordfence.
What people like
- +Effectively hides and manages persistent admin notices that cannot otherwise be dismissed×6
- +Considered more elegant and full-featured than competing free alternatives×4
- +Convenient toolbar placement — adds a menu item to the top-right of the admin bar with a slide-out panel
- +Works with WordPress Multisite
- +Lightweight with no bloat×2
Common complaints
- −Previously caused visible flashing and jumping in the admin UI each time a notice was blocked; reportedly fixed in a later update
- −Triggers repeated Wordfence firewall popups by making background requests to admin-ajax.php, which cannot easily be dismissed without allowlisting
- −No option to selectively move a notice back to its normal dashboard position rather than only hiding it permanently
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.90★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 21 total
Latest reviews · 21 analyzed
- 2025-09-29★★★★★An excellent pluginBorderlain Estudio
- 2025-02-24★★★★★Works perfectlyrevixi5
- 2025-02-18★★★★★The plugin could be wonderful but…stefanando
- 2025-02-06★★★★★Nice solution of annoying noticesJan Barbořík
- 2024-07-23★★★★★Best Admin Notices PluginPieter Sand
- 2024-07-19★★★★★Favorite Admin Notices Manager Plugin!scandidesignco
- 2024-04-21★★★★★Works PerfectSrikanth Kamath
- 2024-01-19★★★★★decentRobothead
- 2024-01-08★★★★★Work great!Neosnc
- 2023-11-25★★★★★It does exactly what it saysdanielepais
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
25
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
28
Prior 7-day baseline
21
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
50
Mean release-day peak (30d)
39
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-10.7%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.83
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
95%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.90 → 4.90★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered