13 Reliable Free Admin Panel Plugins for WordPress

As we continued to emphasize the security of your WordPress admin panel due to the recent attack on our site. In this post I’m going to be taking a look at some free and some commercial plugins which will allow you to use different designs in your WordPress admin panel. You are most welcome to suggest any additions to this list. You can use the comments box below to make any suggestions.

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1. Admin Content Labels

Admin Content Labels allows you to create an admin-specific labels for your content so that you’ll always know what you’re editing regardless of how it’s titled on the front end. With this plugin, you can title your content however you like and still keep your admin panel neat, organized, and manageable.

Admin Content Labels
Admin Content Labels

2. Titan Framework

Titan Framework allows theme and plugin developers to create a admin pages, options, meta boxes, and theme customize options with just a few simple lines of code. Titan Framework aims to be easily used by everyone. The goal is to make it plug and play – just activate the plugin and start creating your options.

Titan Framework
Titan Framework

3. MG Parallax Slider

Create parallax slider for your website. It provide ultimate admin panel for slide customizaton. So, If you are offline then background images form option panel “Background” are empty. These does not show pattern images.

MG Parallax Slider
MG Parallax Slider

4. Camera Slideshow

A jQuery slideshow with an adaptive/responsive layout, easy to use with an extended admin panel. It already provides ColorBox, TimThumb, many effects. You can include it into your theme by using the shortcode (through a useful TinyMCE custom button) or through a meta-box by adding some lines of code to your theme.

Camera Slideshow
Camera Slideshow

5. Gust

Ghost was supposed to be a fork of WordPress. Then there was a talk of a plugin, that would give a next-generation admin panel for WordPress. But in the process it became a new blogging platform, built on Node.js.

Gust
Gust

6. Woocommerce Admin Theme

Woocommerce Admin Panel for Shop Manager Hide woo commerce and wordpress from Shop Manager. Footer Left text (Thanks Text) and Footer Right Text (version text) is added.

Woocommerce Admin Theme
Woocommerce Admin Theme

7. Pixiefy WP Dashboard Customizer

This plugin will add an option menu on dashboard to change the look of Your Wp Admin Dashboard. Easy Admin menu, Colorpicker supported, Hex code supported. & many More.

Pixiefy WP Dashboard Customizer
Pixiefy WP Dashboard Customizer

8. Hello Simpsons Chalkboard Gag

This plugin was based on the Hello Dolly plugin that most active WordPress users are familiar. Much like the reason why Hello Dolly was created, the Simpsons Chalkboard Gag plugin was designed to bring a little light-hearted fun into every page of the admin panel.

Hello Simpsons Chalkboard Gag
Hello Simpsons Chalkboard Gag

9. Custom Admin Panel by 2Cloud

Add a custom admin panel with widget to your theme. Add your own logo, favicon, social media links, custom CSS and custom JS.

Custom Admin Panel by 2Cloud
Custom Admin Panel by 2Cloud

10. Good Bye wp-admin

Plugin change the wp-admin url to admin-panel(or anything you want) in wordpress admin area without breaking anything. There is no option for inserting values wp-config file using wordpress hooks/filters.

Good Bye wp-admin
Good Bye wp-admin

11. Slate Admin Theme

Slate provides a clean, simplified design for your WordPress 4.0+ Admin area. If you like Slate, please consider leaving a review here on WordPress.

Slate Admin Theme
Slate Admin Theme

12. Uploader Anywhere

Say your client wants to add a custom upload button somewhere in the admin page but it is not possible with WordPress built-in hooks. In that case, use this plugin to embed an uploader link. Example rules will be created when you first activate the plugin and you can modify those to suite your needs.

Uploader Anywhere
Uploader Anywhere

13. Admin Page Framework

Extend the library class and pass your arrays that define the form elements to the predefined class methods. The library handles all the complex coding behind the scene and creates the pages and the forms for you.

Admin Page Framework
Admin Page Framework