WM Admin Toolkit

The default WordPress admin is designed to be broadly useful, not efficient. It ships with a cluttered dashboard, a fixed menu structure that rarely matches your workflow, and no indication of which environment you’re working in. WM Admin Toolkit addresses all of that in one place.

The most visible change is the environment colour bar: define WP_ENV in wp-config.php and the admin bar turns red in production, amber on staging, and green in development. It’s a small thing that prevents large mistakes. Beyond that, the dashboard is cleaned to show only what you’ve opted back in to, the admin menu becomes drag-and-drop reorderable, and bulk post actions are extended to cover duplicate and redate — two operations that are otherwise an absurd number of clicks per item.

The command palette (Cmd+K or Ctrl+K) pulls everything together. Any post, page, setting, or registered custom post type is instantly searchable from anywhere in wp-admin. For sites with complex structures or large content libraries, it reduces navigation from a multi-click ordeal to a two-second search. Every feature is independently toggleable if you only want part of the toolkit.