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.

Ian Dunn

<p>Quick Navigation Interface provides a new way to navigate through the Administration Panels, combining the speed of keyboard shortcuts with the ease of a graphical user interface.</p>
<p>Just press <code>g</code> or ` — <em>the backtick character, usually located above the tab key</em> — to bring up the interface, and then start typing part of the name of any screen, post, page, etc. As you type, you’ll be shown a list of matching links. Use the <code>Up</code> and <code>Down</code> keys to move between them, and press <code>Enter</code> to open one.</p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/60iVn94hEIE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>This was inspired by Ubuntu’s Dash and <a href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939" rel="nofollow ugc">HUD</a>, and is also similar to the Spotlight feature in OS X.</p>


Quick Navigation Interface

Thanks for making such a great plugin. I've been thinking about making my own plugin that does something like this and only stumble upon this by chance. Works really well and super useful for getting to content quickly. Really appreciate the effort you've put into this. My only feedback would be to increase the search results to 5 or 6 maybe, but apart from that it's great!

Exactly what I needed!

Quickly access screens and content within wp-admin just by typing the first few letters of the name.

DashLinks – Dashboard Shortcut Buttons vs Quick Navigation Interface