Easy Store Management for WooCommerce
Active Installs
20+
Last Updated
August 30, 2026
First Released
September 15, 2025
Download History (Last one month)
Easy Store Management for WooCommerce turns the WordPress admin into a clean, focused store workspace: no posts, no pages, no plugin menus, no dashboard noise. Just orders, products and customers.
Easy Store Mode, on and off in one click
The simplified admin is a mode, not a life sentence. Pick which roles get it by default (Shop manager, out of the box) and everyone can flip it for themselves from a switch in the admin bar or from their user profile. An administrator who wants the calm store view gets it in one click, and gets the full WordPress back the same way.
Key features
- Clean interface: hides everything that is not store related, menus, dashboard widgets and admin bar items
- Reorganized menus: Orders and Customers get their own top-level menu, WooCommerce becomes “Store”
- Order shortcuts: an Orders menu in the admin bar with a counter of orders waiting for payment or on hold, one entry per status, and a search box to jump straight to an order by number or customer email
- Low stock warning: a heads-up in the admin bar when products drop below your WooCommerce low stock threshold, opening the products list filtered to what is running out
- Land where you work: log in and go straight to Orders instead of the Dashboard
- Quick user switching: look at the store through a customer account to reproduce a cart or checkout problem, and come back to your own account in one click
- Fully configurable: a settings page under WooCommerce where every one of the above can be turned on or off
- You decide what stays: the menus and the dashboard widgets your site really has are listed on the settings page, so keeping the ones you use is a matter of ticking a box, with no slugs to look up
- Menus in working order: Store, Orders, Products, Customers, Users, Withdrawals, Analytics and Marketing, with the Payments shortcut out of the way
- Plays well with your other plugins: the Users screen stays available so User Switching keeps working, the Consent log of Terms & Conditions Consent Log is reachable, and the Withdrawals screen of EU Withdrawal Compliance shows up for whoever has been given permission to handle requests
- HPOS ready: every order link points at the right screen whether your store uses High-Performance Order Storage or the classic one
About user switching
Site administrators can switch to any user they are allowed to edit, the usual WordPress rule. Anybody else, a shop manager in practice, needs an administrator to turn on the delegation setting first. Even then they can only reach accounts whose roles are all on the switchable list and that hold no administrative capability, so an administrator account is never reachable that way. If you already use the User Switching plugin, this feature steps aside and lets it do the work.
A note on what this plugin is
Hiding menus is about comfort and focus, not about security. What each person is allowed to do is still decided by their WordPress capabilities, exactly as before installing this plugin.
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- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/easy-store-management-ayudawpdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
- Make sure WooCommerce is installed and activated.
- Out of the box, users with the “Shop manager” role get Easy Store Mode. Adjust anything you want in WooCommerce Easy Store Management.
Not unless you want it to. By default only the Shop manager role gets Easy Store Mode. Any administrator can turn it on for themselves from the admin bar switch, and turn it off again the same way.
The Easy Store Mode switch stays in the admin bar the whole time, in both the dashboard and the front end. Click it and you are back to the full WordPress admin. Your own profile also has the setting.
Changelog
2.2.0
- New: Per role settings. Every role with Easy Store Mode can now override what it sees and inherits everything it does not, so the person who runs the warehouse can get Products and Orders while everybody else keeps the full store view. They are laid out as a matrix, one row per setting and one column per role, so every role is read side by side and adding one costs a column rather than a second copy of the settings. Only what a role really changes is stored, which means editing the settings above still reaches every role that inherits them. Appearance and navigation only: who gets Easy Store Mode and who may switch users stay the same for the whole site.
- Improved: The Easy Store Mode indicator in the admin bar is a switch now, and takes about a third of the room it used to. The name of the mode, the switch itself and a link to the settings moved into its menu. While the mode is on, the switch and the storefront icon take the highlight colour of whichever admin colour scheme you picked, in all nine of them, instead of a green the plugin chose for you.
- Improved: The settings page lays its options out in two columns, every checkbox before its label rather than at the far right of the column, and the wording of each setting under it instead of beside it. The menu and widget pickers show their whole list in two columns, with no box around it and no scrollbar of their own.
- Improved: Restoring the default settings asks for confirmation before it does it.
- Improved: The box for menus typed by hand shows the three shapes that work as a placeholder, one per line, instead of spending three paragraphs on them.
- Fix: The Comments menu was listed as “Comments 0 Comments in moderation”. Its moderation counter is three spans inside one another and only the outer two were being taken off.
- Fix: The low stock notice escaped its own text twice, so an ampersand in a translation showed up as &.
- Fix: The plugin stylesheet was not loaded for anybody who had Easy Store Mode off, so the switch in the admin bar was served unstyled in exactly the state where it is an invitation to come in.
2.1.1
- Improved: Tested with WordPress 7.1. The Easy Store Mode switch, the Orders menu and the low stock warning also show in the post and site editors, where WordPress 7.1 keeps the toolbar visible.
2.1.0
- New: Pick the menus to keep from a list of the ones your site really has, instead of typing slugs. Every top-level menu Easy Store Mode would hide is on it, with its name and its slug.
- New: Pick the dashboard widgets to keep the same way. The widgets your active plugins add, the ones “Clean the dashboard” would take out, are listed so you can keep whichever ones you use.
- New: Screens that hang off another menu can be kept too, which was never possible before. Paste the address of the one you want, options-general.php?page=whatever for instance, and the menu it hangs off comes back carrying only that screen and not everything it had, so asking for one settings page does not hand you back the whole Settings menu.
- Improved: The box for typing menus by hand now takes the address of the screen too. Paste admin.php?page=whatever, or the whole URL out of the address bar, and it becomes the slug when you save.
- Improved: Tested with WooCommerce 11.0.
- Fix: Menus listed to be kept visible stayed hidden when they were written as the address of the screen, which is what the address bar gives you and what the examples in that very setting pointed at. A plugin page is registered under a bare slug, joinchat, and not under admin.php?page=joinchat. Both forms are accepted now, and the examples have been rewritten. Site Kit and Joinchat were the usual casualties.
- Fix: Media and Pages could not be kept visible at all, the two examples the setting itself suggested. Both were on an internal removal list that ran before the setting was ever read. That list now leaves alone anything you have asked to keep.
For older changelog entries, please check the changelog.txt file
