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Admin Shortcuts adds a set of powerful dashboard widgets that put the most common admin tasks within reach. Stop digging through menus — manage your site faster from the WordPress dashboard.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Quick Links — One-click buttons for New Post, New Page, and Upload Media, plus up to five custom links you configure yourself.</li>
<li>View All Users — Shortcut to the users list with a live badge showing total registered users.</li>
<li>Pending Comments — Review pending comments with inline Accept and Reject buttons (no page reload, powered by the REST API).</li>
<li>Site Health Status — Green, yellow, or red indicator pulled from WordPress Site Health data.</li>
<li>Core Update Notice — Warning badge and quick link when a WordPress core update is available.</li>
<li>Plugin Update Counter — Shows how many plugins need updates with a shortcut to the updates screen.</li>
<li>Drag-to-Reorder — Rearrange quick-link buttons via drag and drop; order is saved per user.</li>
<li>Dark / Light Mode — Toggle dashboard widget appearance; preference saved to user meta.</li>
<li>Recent Posts — Last five published posts with title and edit link.</li>
<li>Custom Quick Links — Configure five quick link slots (label, URL, enabled) from Settings > Admin Shortcuts.</li>
<li>Clean Dashboard — Hides core WordPress dashboard widgets when Admin Shortcuts is enabled; third-party widgets remain visible.</li>
</ul>

Admin Shortcuts

Your WordPress dashboard, supercharged. Quick links, comment moderation, site health, and updates — all one click away.

Hem Thapa

A lightweight plugin to allows admins to create an admin dashboard widget with frequently accessed links for quick access.
I originally developed this plugin after spending hours creating client/user documentation for every WordPress project. Instead of writing step-by-step navigation documentation, I used this plugin to organise all necessary links on the single widget for non-technical users. As a developer, I also use this script myself to organise frequently accessed links for quick access.
<h4>Links format</h4>
Each link should be entered in a separate line in the following format 
(the fourth parameter, i.e. font awesome icon class is optional)
<code>Link text|Button link|Button text|font-awesome icon class</code>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<pre><code>Post blog|/wp-admin/post-new.php|Post blog
Post blog|/wp-admin/post-new.php|Post blog|fa fa-cog
Post blog|/wp-admin/post-new.php newtab|Post blog|fa fa-cog`
</code></pre>
If you have any feedback or queries please contact me at <a href="http://hemthapa.com?ref=wp_dqlw"hemthapa.com"" rel="nofollow ugc">hemthapa.com</a>

Dashboard quick links widget


Nice, simple plugin. Solved my problem. Could not find it when searching from within WordPress, but downloaded and installed and everything works. Thanks.

Very good - Does exactly what it says!

I manage many WordPress sites and it's often a pain to find a frequently used menu item buried within tons of options. I actually developed my own plugin for that reason (called Admin Menu Search), but even then I got tired of typing in the filter to find the menu item I wanted.

I found this plugin by searching for "Admin Links" and after a little bit of setup, it's really handy!!

Excellent plugin idea and very useful! Thank You!

Awesome Plugin

A lightweight plugin to allows admins to create a admin dashboard widget with frequently accessed links for quick access.

Admin Shortcuts vs Dashboard quick links widget