Josh Eaton

A small plugin that lets you “hide” the front-end of a site, all front-end requests of logged-in users are redirected to the WP Dashboard (filterable).
Useful mainly for developers, if you’re developing a site and want to give users access to see the dashboard while you’re working on the front-end. Also can be used if you have a site with no front-end and always want users to stay on the dashboard.
Filters included:
<ul>
<li><code>rfe_redirect_caps</code>: Control capabilities required to bypass redirect, lets Administrators access front-end by default (default: <code>manage_options</code>) </li>
<li><code>rfe_redirect_url</code>: Change the redirect URL (default: <code>admin_url()</code>)</li>
</ul>

Redirect Front-end

A small plugin that lets you "hide" the front-end of a site, redirecting to the WP Dashboard.

Mickey Kay

MIGHTYminnow

The plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/" rel="ugc">Classic Widgets</a> is needed (this plugin doesn’t work with Gutenberg).
Compatible with PHP 8.2
Do you find this plugin helpful? Please consider <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/dashboard-notes" rel="ugc">leaving a 5-star review</a>.
Dashboard Notes lets you create super simple notes and instructions for your clients within the WordPress dashboard. Choose the color of the notification, whether or not to include a logo, and exactly what pages to include the notification on (uses simple URL matching).
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install the Dashboard Notes.</li>
<li>Go to Appearance > Widgets where you will see a new “Dashboard Notes” sidebar.</li>
<li>To create a note, simply drag a new widget into the sidebar and give it some content (we typically use a text/HTML widget).</li>
<li>Once you’ve added content to the widget, click save, and the Dashboard Notes settings for this widget will appear.</li>
<li>Adjust the settings to meet your needs, and click save when you’re done.</li>
<li>Refresh, or navigate to any page to see your new note in action.</li>
<li>Use the plugin settings found via Settings > Dashboard Notes to choose which user roles can/can’t see the notices.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Credits</h4>
Special thanks to <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kasparsd/" rel="nofollow ugc">Kaspars Dambis</a> for his work on <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-context/" rel="ugc">Widget Context</a> – much of this project is based on that code.

Dashboard Notes

Easily create notes/instructions in the WordPress admin using any widget you like!

Redirect Front-end vs Dashboard Notes