Last post of the day (sorry for the spree!).
While I didn’t want to add to it, I see that there haven’t been a ton of threads about dashboard customisers over the years. Certainly far less than there has been discussion about page builders for the frontend.
There seem to be three major contenders: Adminify, UI Press, and Ultimate Dashboard (not to forget Admin Columns).
All proudly proclaim themselves to be the “best” WP admin customiser. All cost about the same amount. It’s surprisingly difficult to pull them apart.
My objectives (nothing too exciting): make the backend look a bit prettier. Embed a few iframes for little admin-ing utilities hosted elsewhere. Clean up my swamp of menus. Long term ambition to build a really nice backend rather than something I want to spin up immediately. So something scalable and flexible would trump whatever’s the quickest thing to get going with.
As with most WordPress things, I think a great user community and an engaged support team means more than the very best features.
Anyone tried a bunch of them and found reason to recommend one over the other?
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For your use case, I’d recommend White Label CMS. I tried UIPress, and it’s very advanced and might be overkill for your use case.
I’ve looked and used these in the past but always just ended up deleting them and sticking to the stock wp-admin.
Why? Long list, but off the top of my head;
– there were always things missing, few bugs, little ui issues.
– added unnecessary bloat, it was just yet another plugin that didn’t impact the website itself
– do you really spend that much time in the wp-admin panel besides getting to pages/posts etc.
If you’re trying to white label wordpress for the sake of clients, yes maybe it’s kind of worth it. But I would even question that.
They only slowdown the admin
It’s not something recommended at all. And completely unnecessary.
But if you must.
Bricks forge has that function .
You can do it via the function.php or creating your own plugin.
A good learning opportunity. Select one thing you want to change, find out how to change it, then move on to another.
Personally, I get rid of all those stupid dashboard widgets. (looking at you Yoast)