Chris P.

<p><strong>DashLinks – Dashboard Shortcut Buttons</strong> adds a customizable widget to the WordPress Dashboard so admins can jump to important areas in one click.</p>
<p>Use the plugin settings page to build your own shortcut button set, reorder buttons with drag-and-drop, and style the widget to match your admin theme.</p>
<h3>Main Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Custom buttons with links set by the user.</li>
<li>Custom dashboard widget title.</li>
<li>Configurable button grid with 1-10 columns.</li>
<li>Drag-and-drop button ordering.</li>
<li>Dashicon picker for each button.</li>
<li>Fully customizable button appearance and style.</li>
<li>Per-button link target behavior (open in same tab or new tab).</li>
<li>Optional row fill behavior for incomplete rows.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Appearance controls</h3>
<ul>
<li>Button colors (normal and hover)</li>
<li>Text color, font size, and font weight</li>
<li>Icon size, spacing, and icon position (left, top, right, bottom)</li>
<li>Button padding, button gap, and shadows</li>
<li>Live preview in settings, including dashboard column preview modes.</li>
</ul>
<p>Default shortcuts are included for common actions like View Site, New Post, Media Library, Plugins, and Settings.</p>
<h3>Development & Support</h3>
<p>This plugin is fully developed by Chris P.(exp7) [<a href="https://github.com/exp7" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>], mainly after a specific use case for personal use and it is published as is, with no quarantees of future updates or support included.</p>


DashLinks – Dashboard Shortcut Buttons

Adds a customizable Dashboard widget with quick shortcut buttons for common WordPress admin tasks and pages.

Rafael Oliveira

<p>Hoard Shortcuts is a WordPress plugin that adds widgets to create shortcuts as visual cards – large buttons that can include a title, description, link, and/or background image.</p>
<p>You build each card your way: informational only (no link), text with a link, image with a link, title+description+image+link all together, and many other combinations.</p>
<p>Perfect for highlighting services, external pages, important links, and more, all in a simple and visual way.</p>
<h3>Main features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create as many shortcuts as you want — no limits.</li>
<li>Add images to cards (optional) using the WordPress Media Library.</li>
<li>Manage shortcuts through a simple, dynamic interface.</li>
<li>Reorder items directly in the widget form.</li>
<li>Choose whether links open in the same tab or in a new browser tab.</li>
<li>Text alignment options per card.</li>
<li>Responsive layout for desktop, tablet, and mobile.</li>
<li>Compatible with keyboard navigation and accessibility features.</li>
<li>Translation ready with the text domain and no external dependencies.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Add the Hoard Shortcuts widget to a WordPress widget area.</li>
<li>Set an title for the widget (optional).</li>
<li>Click + Add new shortcut.</li>
<li>Fill in the shortcut’s title, description, link, and image (according to your needs).</li>
<li>Save the widget.</li>
</ol>


Hoard Shortcuts

Turn ordinary links into amazing visual cards. Like modern buttons with text, image, alignment, order and more – all individually adjustable.

DashLinks – Dashboard Shortcut Buttons vs Hoard Shortcuts