Explore ASE Features

Enable one-click duplication of pages, posts and custom posts. The corresponding taxonomy terms and post meta will also be duplicated. Duplication link is shown on the post list view's post action row and the admin bar. 

ASE Pro adds:
• duplication link in post edit screen's publishing section
• an option to choose where to show duplication link
• an option to choose on which post type(s) duplication is enabled
• an option to enable duplication only for certain user roles

Enable custom ordering of various "hierarchical" content types or those supporting "page attributes". Useful for displaying them in the desired order in wp-admin and on the frontend. 

ASE Pro enables: 
• custom ordering for post types that are non-hierarchical and does not support page attributes, including media / attachments.
• reorder and change the parent of child posts
• toggling taxonomy terms and / or excerpt on the ordering page 
• applying the custom order on the frontend, including for displaying adjacent post links

Easily replace any type of media file with a new one while retaining the existing media ID, publish date and file name. So, no existing links will break. 

ASE Pro allows replacing media from the grid view of media library as well.

Remove various elements from the admin bar. 

ASE Pro enables removal of admin bar items from other plugins.

Clean up admin pages by moving notices into a separate panel easily accessible via the admin bar. 

ASE Pro adds the option to also hide admin notices for non-admins.

Hide admin bar on the frontend for all or some user roles. 

ASE Pro also allows hiding the admin bar on the backend for all or some user roles.

Customize the order of the admin menu and optionally change menu item title or hide some items. 

ASE Pro enables:
• always hiding parent and submenu items for some or all user roles 
• adding new separators
• reordering submenu items

Show additional filter(s) on list tables for hierarchical, custom taxonomies.

ASE Pro enables:
• show additional filter(s) for non-hierarchical taxonomies.

Various, smaller enhancements for different parts of the admin interface:
• Media Library Infinite Scrolling: Re-enable infinite scrolling in the grid view of the media library. Useful for scrolling through a large library.
• Display Active Plugins First: Display active / activated plugins at the top of the Installed Plugins list. Useful when your site has many deactivated plugins for testing or development purposes.

ASE Pro adds:
• Preserve Taxonomy Hierarchy: Preserve the visual hierarchy of taxonomy terms checklist in the classic editor.
• Enable Dashboard Columns Settings: Enable manual settings of dashboard columns layout in Screen Options. You can choose between 1 to 4 columns.
• Add User Role Slug(s) to Admin Body Classes: seful for when you need to modify the admin area only for certain user role(s).
• Add Usermame to Admin Body Classes: Useful for when you need to modify the admin area only for certain user(s).

Customize the text you see on the footer of wp-admin pages.

ASE Pro adds:
• option to upload / insert media
• easy linking of word / phrase
• ability to switch between Visual and Text mode which helps with adding custom HTML

Make the login URL more memorable and secure by customizing it. 

ASE Pro adds:
• custom redirection when accessing default login URLs, e.g. /wp-login.php

Enable log in, log out and dynamic log in/out menu item for addition to any menu.

ASE Pro adds an option to set custom "Log In" and "Log Out" labels for the dynamic log in/out menu item.

Log when users on the site last logged in and display the date and time in the users list table.

ASE Pro makes the column sortable.

Display the registration date and time in the users list table.

ASE Pro makes the column sortable.

Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after login.

ASE Pro adds:
• an option to set separate redirect URL for each role

Set custom redirect URL for all or some user roles after logout.

ASE Pro adds:
• an option to set separate redirect URL for each role

Disable the Gutenberg block editor for some or all applicable post types.

ASE Pro adds:
• option to disable only on / except on certain post types, or on all post types

Disable comments for some or all public post types. When disabled, existing comments will also be hidden on the frontend.

ASE Pro adds:
• option to disable only on / except on certain post types, or on all post types

Disable REST API access for non-authenticated users and remove URL traces from , HTTP headers and WP RSD endpoint.

ASE Pro adds:
• option to exclude certain API routes from being disabled
• option to enable access only for some, authenticated user roles, e.g. administrators.

Prevent brute force attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts allowed per IP address. You can set the preferred HTTP header to get IP address from, which is useful, for example, when your site is behind a trusted proxy.

ASE Pro adds: 
• IP whitelisting, which is also useful to unblock users

Obfuscate email address to prevent spam bots from harvesting them, but make it readable like a regular email address for human visitors. 

ASE Pro enables: 
• shortcode option to output the email address as a mailto: link 
• an option to auto-obfuscate email addresses found in post content.

Resize newly uploaded, large images to a smaller dimension and delete originally uploaded files. BMPs and non-transparent PNGs will be converted to JPGs and resized. 

ASE Pro enables: 
• custom JPG conversion quality
• conversion to WebP instead of JPG 
• custom WebP conversion quality
• option to only resize without conversion to JPG/WebP
• prevention of intermediate size(s) generation

Set custom sender name and email. Optionally use external SMTP service to ensure notification and transactional emails from your site are being delivered to inboxes.

ASE Pro adds the option to:
• specify a custom reply-to name and email
• specify custom Bcc email(s)
• disable authentication
• log email delivery and set max number of entries to keep
• allow resending emails via the log page

Display a panel showing and linking to all available sizes when viewing an image in the media library. Especially useful to quickly get the URL of a particular image size. 

ASE Pro adds a convenient button to copy the image URL on click.

Password-protect the entire site to hide the content from public view and search engine bots / crawlers. Logged-in administrators can still access the site as usual. 

ASE Pro adds: 
• IP whitelisting 
• Option to set preferred header to get IP address from
• bypassing via URL parameter
• auto-application of design from the Login Page Customizer module

Show a customizable maintenance page on the frontend while performing a brief maintenance to your site. Logged-in administrators can still view the site as usual. 

ASE Pro adds: 
• customization of page title shown in the browser tab
• WYSIWYG editor for heading and description
• option to use an image or a solid color as the background
• option to add custom CSS
• option to use an existing page as the maintenance page

Perform 301 (permanent) redirect to the homepage for all 404 (not found) pages.

ASE Pro adds:
• an option to choose the redirect URL

Show quick summary of the system the site is running on to admins, in the "At a Glance" dashboard widget. This includes the web server software, the PHP version, and the database software.

ASE Pro adds info on site, database and root, wp-content, plugins, themes and upload folders size.

Show admin bar status and admin notice when search engines are set to be discouraged from indexing the site. This is set through a "Search engine visibility" checkbox in Settings >> Reading.

ASE Pro adds a way to prevent dev / staging sites from having search engine visibility enabled. This is done by adding an option to set the live / production site's URL.