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Hidden plugin menu locks owners out of settings

After hiding the plugin's own menu entry or all menus, owners cannot reopen the settings, and deleting the plugin leaves the stored hide data in place.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 29 April 2020 · last reported 15 August 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners who hide the plugin's own menu entry, or hide every admin menu, lose the ability to reopen its settings.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.