Title: Hide WPEngine Tab
Author: akv2
Published: <strong>December 6, 2012</strong>
Last modified: September 3, 2015

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Hide WPEngine Tab

 By [akv2](https://profiles.wordpress.org/akv2/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hide-wpengine-tab.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-wpengine-tab/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-wpengine-tab/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-wpengine-tab/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-wpengine-tab/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-wpengine-tab/)

## Description

WPEngine is a fantastic WordPress hosting provider with an absolutely fantastic 
function – the one click staging environment. This plugin is built to make it super
easy to limit access to that button so that people don’t accidentally overwrite 
the staging environment.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Settings page

## Installation

 1. Upload ‘hide-wpengine-tab’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Click on the new menu item “Hide WPEngine Tab” under settings!
 4. Add a comma separated list of users that should have access to the tab. (Note: 
    wpengine gets added automatically.)

## FAQ

None yet. Please ask questions if you have any.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Hide WPEngine Tab” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ akv2 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/akv2/)

[Translate “Hide WPEngine Tab” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hide-wpengine-tab)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-wpengine-tab/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hide-wpengine-tab/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hide-wpengine-tab/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hide-wpengine-tab/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.3

 * Check for WPEngine is_wpe() function

#### 1.1.2

 * Updated to run on WordPress 4.3

#### 1.1.1

 * Added urlencoding so that special characters can be used in lock messages.

#### 1.1

 * Added ability to lock the staging environment so that it cannot be rebuild without
   unlocking. This is done by capturing the click on the “Create staging area” button
   and displaying a friendly message letting the user know it’s locked, who locked
   it, and when.

#### 1.0.1

 * Updated descriptions

#### 1.0

 * Wrote plugin

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.2**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-wpengine-tab/)
 * Tags
 * [hide](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hide/)[staging](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/staging/)
   [tab](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tab/)[wpengine](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wpengine/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-wpengine-tab/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ akv2 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/akv2/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-wpengine-tab/)

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