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Best WordPress Plugins to Customize the Admin Area

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Best WordPress Plugins to Customize the Admin Area

Whether for yourself or for a client, customizing the WordPress dashboard is often something you want to do. From simple modifications to drastic changes, this article showcases free plugins that can help you to take control over your WordPress dashboard.

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Whether for yourself or for a client, customizing the WordPress dashboard is often something you want to do. From simple modifications to drastic changes, this article showcases free plugins that can help you to take control over your WordPress dashboard.

Ag Custom Admin

Ag Custom Admin is probably the most complete solution available to customize your WordPress dashboard.

With this free plugin, you can change almost everything: admin menu and pages, login page, admin bar, etc. Another very interesting option is that the plugin lets you apply admin panel themes, though most of them aren’t free and not especially beautiful, in my opinion.

Free download: Ag Custom Admin

Admin Menu Editor

If you need to customize a WordPress admin menu, then Admin menu editor is definitely a plugin to consider.

Admin menu editor allows you to manually edit the Dashboard menu via drag and drop. You can rearrange it, delete unnecessary items, and create custom menus/submenus.

Free download: Admin menu editor

Adminize

When using WordPress to create a website for a client, there are lots of things in the admin area that you don’t want the client to mess with. Based on user roles, Adminize makes it easy to remove items from view.

Free download: Adminize

White Label CMS

White label CMS is a free plugin which gives you the ability to give the admin area a more personalized and less confusing look and feel. A great solution for those using WordPress to build sites for clients.

It also allows you to add custom logos to the header and footer as well as to the all important login pages, giving your client a better-branded experience of their new website.

Free download: White label CMS

WP Total Hacks

A nifty plugin which gives you control over 20 different settings related to the WordPress admin area. Among other things, it allows you to add a favicon, change admin header logo, deactivate selected meta boxes for posts & pages, limit the number of allowed revisions, block pingbacks, and a lot more.
Free download: WP Total Hacks

Bonus: Hacks


To complete this article, here is a list of hacks and code snippets that you can use to take control of your WordPress admin area. In this article, I’ll show you how you can keep logged in for a longer period of time, programmatically remove admin menu items, change WordPress dashboard colors, provide custom help messages to your users, and a lot more!

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