White Label Branding for WordPress

Are you a WordPress developer or a Web Designer who uses WordPress to develop websites for your clients?

Have you ever wished that it was easier to customize the menus and logos in WordPress and to decide which menus the users have access to?

With White Label Branding for WordPress you can do exactly this. Take full control over the branding in wp-admin and decide who has access to what features.

With the latest version of White Label Branding you have the ultimate tool for customizing WordPress admin and your login screen.

We have added a powerful Role and Capability Manger, which will allow you to create new user Roles and assign Capabilities.

You can add new capabilities for specific user Roles and you can even create a “fake” Administrator account. This can be used if you want to give your clients “admin” access, but still limit what they have access to.

The real administrator will also be hidden from the users list. This way a client with the “fake” administrator account, will never know that they don’t have full access to all features.
You can also use the new WLB Administrator feature, which we recently added. This will allow you to hide elements for other Administrators. Simply add the username of the Administrators that should be able to view all elements of wp-admin.
We have also added advanced color management of the entire wp-admin and you can create your own advanced login templates. When you enter a valid License Key for your copy of White Label Branding for WordPress you will get access to our Free Downloadable Content, which allows you to download our popular Visual CSS Editor.

Please notice that if you are using WordPress Multisite you need our special version for WordPress Multisite.

List of features
Dashboard Tool
Create an unlimited number of Custom Dashboard Metaboxes with the Dashboard Tool. If you have our Pages by User Role plugin you can add Access Control to each Metabox. This makes it possible to completely customize who will see each Metabox (Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor or Subscriber).
Branding
Enable Branding
Add your own Favicon
Add you own Header Logo (Depreciated in WordPress 3.3)
Set custom height of header area (Depreciated in WordPress 3.3)
Add Developer Logo (Footer)
Add Developer Name
Add Developer URL
Remove “WordPress” from title
Hide update nag message
Hide update download link
Hide Contextual Help
Hide Screen Options
Hide Favorite Actions
Set custom From Email Address
Set custom Email From Name
Add Public Dashboard Metabox viewable by all users; Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor and Administrator
Add Private Dashboard Metabox only viewable by Editors
Add Private Dashboard Metabox only viewable by Administrators
Use HTML and Shortcodes in the Custom Dashboard Boxes
Remove WordPress Dashboard Widgets on-by-one
Remove Custom Dashboard Widgets added by other plugins
Navigation
Hide Top-level Menus (Dynamic generated list that shows all the menus depending on which plugins you have installed).
Hide Sub-level Menus (Dynamic generated list that shows all the menus depending on which plugins you have installed).
Sort (Re-order) the Top-level Menus by easy drag and drop interface.
Hide individual items in the Admin Bar (can also be based on User Roles and Capabilities)
Hide the Admin Bar
Hide the Admin Bar Setting from profile
Rename menu in wp-admin
Change menu icons in wp-admin (type face retina support)
Screen Options
Set Default Screen Layout for all users
Set Default Screen Layout per user
Remove Individual Screen Options

This is not in the WLB Settings menu, but in the top right side of your wp-admin.
Visual CSS Editor
White Label Branding for WordPress uses our popular Visual CSS Editor. It will allow you to customize the wp-admin colors, styles and fonts. Choose from more than 800 Google Web Fonts.
You can also easily customize the default WordPress login, Regsiter and Forgot Password screens.
Options
Advanced Settings
Enable Role and Capability Manager
Hide Administrator User Role form the users list
Enable Custom Dashboard Tool
Settings, Import and Export (easily backup global settings and import global settings)
License & Downloads
Get access to our premium support, knowledge database and Free Downloadable Content when you enter a valid License Key.
Role & Capability Manager
We do not recommend you to change the Capabilities of the Administrator user role. Doing so can cause you to loose access to features on your website. If you accidentally do we have a script that can restore the Capabilities for the Administrator user role.
Create Custom User Roles
Create Custom Capabilities
Set Capabilities for all standard User Roles
Set Capabilities for your Custom User Roles
Disable wp-admin for individual User Roles
Language Localization
English support
Spanish support
German support
Changelog
Version 4.2.5.90646 – May 18, 2019

Update: Rollback, previous fix in Options Panel causes more issues with other settings

Bug Fixed: When saving any settings, the license gets reset (this only apply to White Label Branding for WordPress Multisite) and add-ons get deactivated.
Version 4.2.4.90630

Update: Options Panel updated to version 2.9

Update: RightHere API updated to https

Bug Fixed: PHP warning save_option not defined
Version 4.2.2.85688 – October 5, 2018

Compatibility Fix: PHP 7.2.1

Update: Remove old legacy code for supporting WordPress 3.x
Version 4.2.1.83266 – April 24, 2018

Compatibility Fix: Not possible to hide top-level menu WPBakery Page Builder

Update: Options Panel version 2.8.9
Version 4.2.0.83030 – March 7, 2018

Bug Fixed: Missing icons for Admin Menu Settings
Version 4.1.9.81576 – September 26, 2017

Bug Fixed: PHP warning displayed when an invalid username is set as WLB Administrator (when PHP warnings are active)

Bug Fixed: Some PHP warnings showing on PHP 7 console, about “Creating default object from empty value” in class.wlb_dashboard.php

Update: Added Spanish translation .po and .mo files
Version 4.1.8.76505 – January 30, 2017

Bug Fixed: WooCommerce menu icons not changing when replaced

Update: Adjusted CSS in WLB Settings > Navigation > Admin Menu Settings
Version 4.1.7.76151 – January 15, 2017

Bug Fixed: Old login sub-menu still visible after removing depreciated Login Branding
Version 4.1.6.75841 – December 29, 2016

Bug Fixed: Replace “Howdy, username” option stopped working after the release of WordPress 4.7

Update: Move the “Enable notifications on non options pages” from Options > Troubleshooting to Options > Advanced Settings

Update: Remove old Login Branding from Options > Advanced Settings. Over a year ago we announced that this feature would be depreciated and removed. It has been replaced with the much better Visual CSS Editor

Update: wlb_options capability required in order to see the White Label Branding dashboard notification
Version 4.1.5.75687 – December 13, 2016

Update: When using the Panic Key, also remove the wlb_administrator option, so that regular Administrators with the appropriate User Role and Capabilities can see hidden WLB menus
Version 4.1.4.75349 – November 24, 2016

Update: Make the old login branding OFF by default (in August 2015 we introduced the new Visual CSS Editor and announced that the old login branding module would be removed by the end of 2016)

Bug Fixed: PHP warning in branding menu

New Feature: Added a self-rescue link that makes it possible to restore the Administrator capabilities to the default settings in case the capabilities were modified and the user is locked out of wp-admin.
Version 4.1.3.70836 – June 6, 2016

New Feature: Added Troubleshooting option to disable White Label Branding update notifications
Version 4.1.2.70407 – May 26, 2016

New Feature: Allow to set multiple users in the WLB Administrator field

New Feature: Added filter wlb_skip_login to allow customization of the default WordPress login with the Visual CSS Editor without having to disable the old Login module

Update: Added depreciated message to the old Login module
Version 4.1.1.69961 – May 10, 2016

Bug Fixed: PHP Warning when hiding Plugins and Themes menu in wp-admin

Bug Fixed: Disable Plugin and Theme notification are forcing an update every time. Implement a better notification disable that does not trigger a remote call every time

Bug Fixed: When the WLB Administrator is set, the update notifications should show for this user

Update: When WLB Administrator is set, Plugins and Appearance is only visible to this user if the Hide Plugins and Appearance options are set
Version 4.1.0.69894 – May 9, 2016

New Feature: Added option to disable the Downloads section from in Calendarize it! for WordPress. Requires the latest version of both plugins that use the Options Panel

New Feature: Added feature to hide update plugins and update themes

New Feature: Added feature to hide plugins and appearance menu. This will only hide the menus, the screens are still accessible

New Feature: Added feature to specify a White Label Branding Administrator (single user). Fallback to user role if the user loses Administrator rights. This feature is especially useful if the plugin is used on a customers website, and the customer insists to be an Administrator, but you don?t want the customer to have access to certain features

New Feature: The White Label Branding (WLB) Administrator feature is only visible to the WLB Administrator
Version 4.0.9.69776 – May 2, 2016

Compatibility Fix: Change classes where the constructor has the same name as the class to __construct (PHP 7 compatibility).

Bug Fixed: Function Reference get_currentuserinfo has been depreciated and replaced with wp_get_current_user()
Version 4.0.8.66268 – January 6, 2015

Bug Fixed: Installation of bundled login templates is not working

Update: Updated the reported pop version

Update: Changed visibility of update notification to only Administrators
Version 4.0.7.65075 – November 17, 2015

Bug Fixed: PHP warning when using the move logout to root option

Bug Fixed: Branding > Dashboard > Hide Dashboard Widgets, some widgets have empty labels

Bug Fixed: Removed debugging code that generates a PHP warning in the navigation backend
Version 4.0.6.63709 – September 29, 2015

Update: Options Panel updated to support add-on payments using Bitcoin and Alipay through Stripe.com
Version 4.0.5.63333 – September 16, 2015

Compatibility Fix: Custom Admin Bar menu not showing in the backend to hide/show (WordPress 4.3.x)

Bug Fixed: Some custom menus were always checked hidden in the navigation options

Bug Fixed: Some plugin icons show smaller in the menu when customized with WLB
Version 4.0.4.61872 – August 20, 2015

New Feature: Custom CSS field in the branding section

Update: Depreciated the old Color Schemer. For styling download the free Visual CSS Editor. This was first announced when we introduced the Visual CSS Editor in version 4.0.

Compatibility Fix: Avoid third-party plugin causing PHP warning
Version 4.0.3.58418 – April 24, 2015

Improvement: Replaced add_query_arg() due to an XSS vulnerability issue that affects many WordPress plugins and themes. Please observe that before the function could be accessed the user had to be an Administrator, meaning that the potential issue was not available to the public.
Version 4.0.2.57483 – March 27, 2015

Bug Fixed: Faulty third-party code can cause an infinite loop in the Toolbar options
Version 4.0.1.57175 – March 12, 2015

Update: Move the Roles and Capabilities tab to the first position

Bug Fixed: Prevent crashing when the NextGen gallery plugin is activated

Bug Fixed: Prevent Bootstrap from breaking White Label Branding icons

Compatibility Fix: Not possible to hide the Appearance > Customize Sub Menu
Version 4.0.0.56008 – February 10, 2015

Bug Fixed: Missing a menu hover selector

Bug Fixed: Removed PHP warning

Compatibility Fix: When using WLB and Tribe Events Calendar, the Google Map is not showing on the Event Page. The Events Calendar plugin sending an integer value when a string is expected.

Update: Added WLB icon to the menu

New Feature: Added support for Downloadable Content

New Feature: Added support for disabling the original color scheme module

New Feature: Added support for disabling the original login branding

New Feature: Added option in Troubleshooting tab to restore (Super) Admin capabilities to User Role

New Feature: Visual CSS Editor for White Label Branding wp-admin (downloadable content). We will be depreciating the old Color Schemer in 6 months.

New Feature: Comments by User Role for White Label Branding (downloadable content)

New Feature: Author Posts by User Role for White Label Branding (downloadable content)

New Feature: Custom Menus for White Label Branding (downloadable content)

New Feature: Hide Plugins in Plugins List for White Label Branding (Downloadable Content)

New Feature: Hide Widgets in WP Admin for White Label Branding (Downloadable Content)
Version 3.3.1.54694 – November 8, 2014

New Feature: Option to hide Toolbar from Super Admin

Bug Fixed: Random disappearing menus

Bug Fixed: Service unavailable(2) message on some sites when trying to update the plugin. ovh hosted sites should work now.

Update: Increase the reported Options Panel version to 2.7.2

Update: Updated jQuery version

Update: Use the bundled jQuery on wp-login
Version 3.3.0 rev51961 – July 4, 2014

Bug Fixed: PHP fatal error when using WordPress 3.8.
Version 3.2.9 rev51524 – June 25, 2014

Bug Fixed: When a Custom User Role is too similar to the Administrator Role, the list of what that Custom Role was empty in the user’s list screen.

Bug Fixed: Prevent a PHP warning when admin menu order has not been set ever.

Bug Fixed: Alignment of hover action in the menu for changing icons for the wp-admin menu.

Compatibility Fix: Added WordPress 3.9 color scheme styles and back compatibility with WordPress 3.8.
Version 3.2.8 rev49615 – May 15, 2014

Bug Fixed: Blocking wp-admin for specific user roles also blocked Ajax
Version 3.2.7 rev48667 – April 7, 2014

Bug Fixed: Some Toolbar (admin bar) items from the frontend are not shown in the Options > Navigation menu.
Version 3.2.6 rev46923 – February 3, 2014

Compatibility Update: Added compatibility workaround in order to better support ManageWP.com service.
Version 3.2.5 rev43116 – December 12, 2013

New Feature: Change label on the menu in wp-admin (WLB Settings > Navigation – Sort Admin Menu)

New Feature: Support for Custom Icons (typeface) in wp-admin menu
Version 3.2.4 rev43091 – December 11, 2013

Compatibility Fix: WordPress 3.8 top header logo broken

Compatibility Fix: WordPress 3.8 custom icons feature broken
Version 3.2.3 rev40353 – September 23, 2013

Bug Fixed: In the user list, fix the total number of users, so that it does not count the Administrators.
Version 3.2.2 rev37652 – June 24, 2013

Bug Fixed: Download section not working on some websites
Version 3.2.1 rev37239 – June 10, 2013

Compatibility Fix: Prevent PHP warning when using Gravity Forms

Bug Fixed: Downloads section crashing

Update: Updated Options Panel to the latest version
Version 3.2 rev37021 – June 5, 2013

Update: Options Panel updated to the latest version

Update: Compatibility fix, WLB error message showing on Shortcode icon dialog

Bug Fixed: Prevent a PHP warning when saving navigation options

Bug Fixed: When unchecking all dashboard items and saving, the unchecked items just became checked again

New Feature: Allow branding of the title in the link, when the header logo is replaced
Version 3.1.1 rev36145 – April 23, 2013

Bug Fixed: Prevent PHP warning when using checkbox and load_option=false

Update: Hook loading text domain after theme setup

Update: As per WordPress recommendation use load text domain in the plugins_loaded hook

Update: Add missing text to localization files

Update: Added missing text in Spanish
Version 3.1.0 rev35663 – April 2, 2013

New Feature: Added support for the custom link for header logo (replace W)
Version 3.0.9 rev35659 – April 2, 2013

Bug Fixed: Login button styling didn’t work on WordPress 3.5.1
Version 3.0.8 rev35175 – March 21, 2013

New Feature: Update Options Panel with Auto Update

New Feature: WordPress 3.5.1 menu hover text color
Version 3.0.7 rev31694 – January 4, 2013

Update: Compatibility with WordPress 3.5. Implement color scheme to new primary and secondary button wp-admin selectors

New Feature: Hide the WordPress version from the footer

New Feature: Option to disable Email branding

Bug Fixed: Pushed screen options saving to the admin_init hook, as on some setups the roles were not defined before plugins_loaded

Bug Fixed: Do not replace email from is the header is set (resolved conflict with Contact Form 7)

Bug Fixed: Menu font showing orange when menu have sub-menu on hover

Bug Fixed: Logo in footer disappeared in WordPress 3.5

Bug Fixed: White background when hovering out of an item

Bug Fixed: Submenu background color not getting applied
Version 3.0.6 rev28864 – August 17, 2012

New Feature: Allow to change the dashboard icon URL

Bug Fixed: Remove PHP warnings

Bug Fixed: jQuery script is not registered on the login screen, so it is loading from WLB folder

Bug Fixed: Added space to a very long line so that it doesn’t give a false positive on certain security scanners.

New Feature: Sample Theme integration file (pushed plugins_loaded to after_theme_setup plugin initialization)
Version 3.0.5 rev26174 – June 16, 2012

Depreciate: Remove header height option, use the header logo to replace the WP logo on the Toolbar (Admin bar).

New Feature: Added control for setting the width of the logo in the Tool Bar.

New Feature: Replace the logo in the frontend Tool Bar.

Bug Fixed: Compatibility issues with WordPress 3.4 Tool Bar settings.

Update: Add back compatibility with WordPress 3.3

Update: Use the WordPress jQuery
Version 3.0.4 rev23458 – April 26, 2012

New Feature: Added support for using {site_title} in Email From Name under Branding

New Feature: Added support for using {site_url} to dynamically load the current site URL in the Email From Name.

Bug Fixed: Prevent a PHP warning in certain WordPress installations

Bug Fixed: Sub Menu items with ampersands (&) where not saved

Bug Fixed: Gap between custom logo and login form.

Bug Fixed: Compatibility fix, make the left-footer replacement selector more specific, as there is a theme using the same ID in a widget #footer-left

Improvement: Admin, Editor and Public dashboard support Shortcodes in content
Version 3.0.3 rev23096 – March 21, 2012

Bug Fixed: Pages by User Role (PUR) fix after WP 3.1 PUR was not restricting Custom Dashboards correctly.

Bug Fixed: Login form label not getting WLB setting

Bug Fixed: Compatibility issue with some other plugins that was hiding the WLB Advanced Settings tab.

Bug Fixed: When login advanced templates are empty, even if this feature is deactivated there is a javascript error.

Bug Fixed: Main menu is showing orange on click (focus), applied the same color as hover
Version 3.0.2 rev14700 – December 20, 2011

Bug Fixed: Admin Bar checkboxes are reset when saving a different panel

Bug Fixed: Custom Post Type column not showing in WordPress 3.3

New Feature: Added option to move the logout link to the Admin Bar. By default, this is inside the profile submenu.
Version 3.0.1 rev14037 – December 17, 2011

Bug Fixed: Allow non-WLB administrator to edit hide dashboard widgets

Bug Fixed: Hide dashboard widgets are not set when saving another panel

Bug Fixed: Hide Profile on Admin Bar when hiding sub-menu

Bug Fixed: Admin Bar broken when opening the navigation tab

New Feature: Added option to hide the Welcome Dashboard Panel

New Feature: Added option to disable the automatic color scheme generation

New Feature: Enable Admin Bar customization for WordPress 3.3

New Feature: Added option to disable WordPress 3.3 pointers

New Feature: Added option to replace “Howdy” username
Version 3.0.0 rev12331 – November 27, 2011

New Feature: Save, Export and Import settings for wp-admin color branding

New Feature: Save, Export and Import settings for login template branding

New Feature: Save, Export and Import global settings for White Label Branding

New Feature: Added optional Downloadable Content when the License key is entered

New Feature: Add Favicon

New Feature: Set WordPress from name and email address

New Feature: Hide dashboard panels created by other plugins

New Feature: Change order of wp-admin menu

New Feature: Login Screen CSS Settings (logo, opacity and background)

New Feature: Optional Drag and Drop file upload for Login Screen, Login Form and Favicon

New Feature: Customize Login Form

New Feature: Login form support for iPad, iPhone and Smartphones (small template trigger)

New Feature: Custom Icons (optional)

New Feature: Added advanced wp-admin color branding

New Feature: Disable wp-admin for specific User Role

New Feature: Disable specific Screen Options (Editor or lower user role)

New Feature: Save Default Screen Options layout (global)

New Feature: Save Default Screen Options layout (per user)

New Feature: Merged all White Label Branding related menus under WLB Settings

Update: New Options Panel version 2.0
Version 2.0.9 rev4627 – June 14, 2011

Bug Fixed: login background was cropped at the bottom when using custom login form.
Version 2.0.8 rev4581 – May 14, 2011

New Feature: Added automatic update notification

New Feature: Added theme integration files

New Feature: Updated the German translation files
Version 2.0.7 rev4032 – April 28, 2011

Bug Fixed: Scrollbars not showing on iPad and iPhone on wp-login.php

Update: custom login template
Version 2.0.6 rev3771 – April 20, 2011

Bug Fixed: unbind click event to prevent tabs from closing immediately after opening on some sites

Bug Fixed: alternative login template manipulation to prevent conflict with some themes using old Mootools libraries
Version 2.0.5 rev3145 – March 24, 2011

Update: Added the capabilities in parenthesis needed to show specific sub-menu
Version 2.0.4 rev2512 – March 23, 2011

Bug Fixed: removed the style that the hidden Admin bar outputs (28 pixels in the top)
Version 2.0.3 rev2348 – March 18, 2011

New Feature: remove word “WordPress” from the header title on admin pages

Bug Fixed: avoid displaying the scrollbar on the admin when adding a developer image url

Bug Fixed:  hide admin users option, narrowed the selector for admin users to avoid a conflict with other plugins and themes that add user lists

Bug Fixed: do not show the Role Manager option when editing a user if it is not the real administrator
Version 2.0.2 rev2072 – March 8, 2011

Bug Fixed: the feature that hides the real Administrator from the User List
Version 2.0.1 rev1847 – March 2, 2011

New Feature: Added support for hiding the new Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1

New Feature: Added support for hiding items in the new Admin Bar

New Feature: Added support for hiding Admin bar settings in My Profile

New Feature: Added support for login_logo_url in Login page templates
Version 2.0 – February 11, 2011

New Feature: Added ability to hide standard WordPress Dashboard Panels one by one

New Feature: Added user Role Manager

New Feature: Added Capability Manager

New Feature: Added option to hide Administrator user role from users list.

New Feature: Added WLB Custom Dashboard Panel tool
Version 1.5.0 – December 16, 2010

New Feature: Added option to hide Favorite Actions

New Feature: Added option to hide Screen Options

New Feature: Added login screen background settings

New Feature: Added login screen HTML and CSS customization

New Feature: Added custom dashboard panel viewable only to Editor (old custom dashboard panel will be viewable to all user roles)

New Feature: Added support for the German language

New Feature: Added support for the Portuguese language
Version 1.2.2 – November 8, 2010

Bug Fixed: login logo replacement from the previous version
Version 1.2.1 – November 2, 2010

Bug Fixed: minor conflict with MiniMeta Widget Plugin
Version 1.2.0 – September 22, 2010

New Feature: Hide Nag update message

New Feature: Hide Nag download message

New Feature: Hide Contextual Help

New Feature: Sub-menu customization
Version 1.1.0 – September 20, 2010

Update: Updated the interface Language localization; English and Spanish
Version 1.0 – September 16, 2010
First release