Admin and Site Enhancements Pro vs WP Adminify Pro

In Admin and Site Enhancements Pro vs WP Adminify Pro, the shared job is a tidier, more useful WordPress admin without a dozen single purpose plugins. Both are modular, both edit the admin menu and admin columns, and both set a custom login URL. The free ASE counts 200,000+ active installs on wordpress.org with a rating of 5.0 out of 5, the free WP Adminify counts 6,000+ with a rating of 4.3, as the product facts on both deal pages show.

The difference is the direction. Admin and Site Enhancements Pro describes itself as a set of 70+ admin and site tweaks and adds site functions in Pro: custom post types, taxonomies and options pages, a code snippets manager, a form builder, scheduled encrypted backups with migration and login attempt limits. WP Adminify Pro reworks the interface itself: menu styles with search, color presets, a scheduled dark mode, dashboard and welcome widgets, custom admin pages, hidden admin notices, media folders and drag and drop post ordering.

Admin and Site Enhancements Pro suits site owners and developers who want to remove several helper plugins at once, for example for custom post types, snippets, simple forms and backups, and who are fine with the default look of the admin. Its deal page names the limits: support is included for 1 year only, the entry tier covers 1 site, and teams that prefer one specialised plugin per task may not like a toolbox.

WP Adminify Pro suits people who spend hours a day in the admin and want it to look different, and agencies that want a branded dashboard for clients on the larger tiers. Its deal page names the limits too: the Personal tier leaves out multisite, the client ready dashboard and removing the branding, the current price is a promotion, and the many modules take a while to set up.

Both vendors sell lifetime licenses on their own website next to yearly plans. Bowo offers these lifetime tiers: 1 site for $99, 5 sites for $299, 25 sites for $499, 100 sites for $699, 200 sites for $1,099, 500 sites for $1,499. Jewel Theme offers these lifetime tiers: 1 site for $103.20, 5 sites for $199.20, 200 sites for $263.20, 1000 sites for $319.20, unlimited sites for $399.20. Admin settings tend to stay on a site for as long as it runs, which is why a one time payment fits this kind of plugin.

Updates run for life on both sides. Support differs: Admin and Site Enhancements Pro includes support for 1 year, WP Adminify Pro includes lifetime support. The refund window is the same, 14 days for Admin and Site Enhancements Pro and 14 days for WP Adminify Pro, and both list their prices in US dollars, so you can compare the tiers directly on the day you buy.

Both free versions are on wordpress.org, so you can reorder the admin menu and hide what you do not need before you pay. Run only one of them at a time: two plugins that both rewrite the admin menu, admin columns and the login URL get in each other’s way, and it becomes hard to tell which setting wins. Take a backup first and note your current login URL before you change it.

Then test what only the paid version adds inside the refund window: custom post types, the snippets manager, forms and backups with Admin and Site Enhancements Pro, the dashboard widgets, admin pages, dark mode schedule and media folders with WP Adminify Pro. Ask an editor or a client to work in the admin for a day, because they notice a changed menu sooner than you do.