The dashboard is the part of your work that clients see every single day, and by\ndefault it looks like everyone else's. Deskmode Suite changes that, and adds the\ntools you would otherwise install three separate plugins for.<\/p>\n\n
Everything happens in the admin area. Your public site is never touched: no\nchanges to your theme, and no scripts added to the pages your visitors see.<\/p>\n\n
Every plugin you install thinks its announcement deserves the top of your screen.\nTen plugins later the admin notices push your actual work below the fold, and the\none message that mattered is buried among the discount banners.<\/p>\n\n
Deskmode Suite collects them into a single line with the count, and leaves your\nscreen to you. Open that line and you get every notice, in full, on a page of its\nown: nothing is destroyed, only moved. Blocks containing an error stay exactly\nwhere they are, because an announcement can wait and a failure cannot. Plugins you\nactually want to hear from can be let through one by one.<\/p>\n\n
If anything ever goes wrong, Three accent colours, chosen from the admin bar on any screen. The colour flows\nthrough the menu, buttons, panels and charts, so you pick it once. Where the\naccent is used as a background, the text colour is calculated from the\nbackground's luminance rather than assumed, so it always clears the contrast\nratio the WCAG require.<\/p>\n\n A floating button flips the whole dashboard, instantly and without a reload. The\npreference belongs to each user rather than the site, so you can work in dark\nwhile a colleague works in light. It steps back on two screens on purpose: the\ntheme customizer, where a dark frame would skew your reading of the colours you\nare choosing, and Elementor, which forces a light background on its own panels.<\/p>\n\n Drag items into order, rename them into words your client understands, change\nthe icon by clicking it, and hide the ones nobody needs. Counters for pending\nupdates and comments stay attached to their items and keep working. On the Menus\nscreen you also get two buttons per item, to remove one or to\nduplicate a menu item<\/a>\nin a single click.<\/p>\n\n Eighteen event types in one filterable table: sign-ins, failed logins, password\nresets, accounts created and deleted, role changes, plugins activated, theme\nswitches, updates installed, content published or deleted. Each entry records the\nuser, the IP address and the time. Events go into a dedicated database table\nindexed by timestamp, action and IP, rather than into an option row that\nWordPress would load and rewrite on every request.<\/p>\n\n A score out of a hundred with every reason spelled out: PHP version, HTTPS in the\nadmin, errors visible to visitors, an enabled file editor, the weight of\nautoloaded options, pending updates, and the state of the database. Alongside it,\ncharts of your site's build time over thirty days and of how the score moves. The\ncharts are SVG generated on the server, so there is no JavaScript library to\ndownload and they work under strict content security policies.<\/p>\n\n A holding page while you work, served with the correct 503 status and a\nRetry-After header, so search engines understand the site is temporarily down\nrather than replacing your indexed pages with \"back soon\". The login page stays\nreachable, so you cannot lock yourself out.<\/p>\n\n WHOIS over port 43, DNS records, SSL certificate expiry, and\nIP lookup<\/a> with country, ISP and\nAS number, all from one screen. Useful when a login attempt\nlooks suspicious, or when a client asks why their certificate expired.<\/p>\n\n Three doors WordPress leaves open by default, each one a checkbox with the\nreason spelled out. Disable XML-RPC, so xmlrpc.php stops accepting password\nattempts from anyone who asks. Block user enumeration, so ?author=1, the REST\nusers routes, the sitemap and oEmbed stop handing out your usernames. Disable\napplication passwords, which otherwise let any user mint a credential that\nauthenticates over HTTP Basic.<\/p>\n\n Alongside them a security summary: the state of each protection in plain words,\nplus two read-only checks on the site itself. Must-use plugins, which load on\nevery request and cannot be switched off from the Plugins screen. And executable\nfiles sitting in the uploads folder, where nothing should ever be code. The scan\nis capped and says so when the result is partial, rather than pretending it read\neverything.<\/p>\n\n CPU time and memory per plugin are not shown, because from inside WordPress they\ncannot be measured reliably. Database time is the slice that genuinely can be\nmeasured, and that is the slice you get. Every module can also be switched off\nfrom wp-config.php, without dashboard access, for when something goes wrong.<\/p>\n\n Deskmode Suite is built by 3WEB<\/a>, an Italian company that\nhas been building and maintaining websites and servers since 1999. Full\ndocumentation and a page for every feature are on the\nDeskmode website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n The free version is a complete plugin, not a trial: nothing here expires and\nnothing is limited by a quota. If you look after sites for other people, these\nare the tools the Pro version adds, and they are the reason it exists.<\/p>\n\ndefine( 'DESKSU_SHOW_NOTICES', true );<\/code> in\nwp-config.php puts every notice back where WordPress had it, without needing the\ndashboard.<\/p>\n\nDashboard theme<\/h4>\n\n
Dark mode, per user<\/h4>\n\n
Menu customizer<\/h4>\n\n
Activity log<\/h4>\n\n
Site health and charts<\/h4>\n\n
Maintenance mode<\/h4>\n\n
Network tools<\/h4>\n\n
Login security<\/h4>\n\n
Clear about limitations<\/h4>\n\n
What Deskmode Pro Suite adds<\/h4>\n\n
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