Beschreibung
Admin Buddy is a modular admin enhancement suite for WordPress. Each feature is an independent module you can enable or disable from the Setup screen. No feature runs unless you turn it on.
Modules included:
- White Label – rebrand the admin: custom greeting, agency name, sidebar logo, admin bar cleanup, dashboard widgets, hide update nags, footer text, and more
- Colours – apply a colour scheme to the entire WP admin, login page, and admin bar
- Login – style the WordPress login page with your brand
- Maintenance – Coming Soon and Maintenance mode with bypass URLs and emergency access
- SMTP – configure outgoing email with multiple provider presets and email logging
- User Roles – capability matrix editor with backup and restore
- Media Manager – organise the Media Library into nested, colour-coded folders, injected into the native Media Library and every page-builder media modal; drag files to folders, search and sort, and reorganise with a multi-select toolbar; optional two-step Media Trash (trash, restore, empty). Folders are standard WordPress terms, so they survive deactivation
- Quick Settings – one-click toggles for common WordPress housekeeping (disable feeds, emojis, XML-RPC, REST API, etc.)
Source Code
The complete source code is available at:
https://github.com/360igs/admin-buddy-free
The repository is published on each release and contains the exact files in the WordPress.org-hosted zip.
External services
The SMTP module can route outgoing WordPress email through a third-party SMTP server when the site administrator chooses to enable it.
The plugin does not include hardcoded connections to any specific email service. The administrator supplies the SMTP host, port, encryption setting, and credentials in the SMTP module’s settings. No data is sent to any external server until the administrator saves those credentials and an email is dispatched (either by WordPress itself or by the SMTP module’s „Send test email“ button).
When email is sent, the recipient address, message body, and any attachments are transmitted to the SMTP server the administrator configured, using the credentials supplied. The plugin neither chooses the destination server nor stores credentials anywhere outside the local site database.
Because the destination is administrator-supplied, no fixed terms-of-service or privacy-policy link applies; the relevant policy is the one published by whichever SMTP provider the administrator chooses.
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Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate through Plugins Installed Plugins.
- Go to Admin Buddy in the admin menu.
- Enable the modules you want in Setup Modules.
FAQ
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Does it work with my theme?
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Admin Buddy only affects the WordPress admin area. It has no effect on your public-facing theme except for the Login module (which styles
wp-login.php) and Maintenance mode (which gates the frontend for non-logged-in users). -
What PHP version do I need?
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PHP 8.1 or higher.
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Does it use jQuery?
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No. All Admin Buddy scripts in the free build are Vanilla ES6+. jQuery is not declared as a dependency for any free-build script.
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Can I build add-on modules?
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Not yet – a public module API is planned for a future release. Right now, all modules are bundled.
Rezensionen
Für dieses Plugin gibt es keine Rezensionen.
Mitwirkende und Entwickler
„Admin Buddy“ ist Open-Source-Software. Folgende Menschen haben an diesem Plugin mitgewirkt:
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Änderungsprotokoll
1.1.0
- New module: Media Manager. Organise the Media Library into nested, colour-coded folders, injected into both the native Media Library and every page-builder media modal (Bricks, Divi, Elementor, Gutenberg, and a generic fallback). Drag files into folders, search across all folders, sort by date/name/modified, and reorganise with a multi-select bulk-ops toolbar (move/trash/restore). Includes an optional two-step Media Trash (trash, restore, empty). Folders are stored as standard WordPress taxonomy terms, so they survive deactivation and carry no lock-in – export the folder map to JSON at any time.
- Folder operations (create, rename, delete, move, recolour) are restricted to administrators. Enable the module from Setup Modules.
- All Media Manager scripts are Vanilla ES6+ (no jQuery dependency), consistent with the rest of the free build.
1.0.3
- Plugin Data: „Reset Plugin Data“ and „Reset and Deactivate Plugin“ renamed to „Erase All Admin Buddy Data“ and „Erase All Data and Deactivate“. Confirmation modal now itemises exactly what will be deleted (Collections, Option Pages, snippets, SVG icons, activity log entries, uploads directory) and requires typing „ERASE“ before the destroy button arms. Prevents accidental data loss from a single click.
- Sidebar: revert custom positioning/overflow overrides. WordPress’s native sticky-menu behaviour returns, hover-flyout submenus work as core intends.
- Internal: sync
ADMBUD_VERSIONconstant with the plugin header so asset cache-busting and the storedadmbud_plugin_versionoption match the version users see.
1.0.2
- Fix mismatched „Tested up to“ header between admin-buddy.php (6.9) and readme.txt (7.0) that triggered a Plugin Check error on install. Both now declare 7.0. No functional change.
1.0.1
- Initial public release on WordPress.org. Admin Buddy is a modular admin enhancement suite – White Label, Colours, Login, Maintenance, SMTP, User Roles, and Quick Settings – that you enable per-module from the Setup screen.
