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Arik Admin Screen Customizer

By Tanmoy Biswas
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Description

Transform your WordPress backend with Arik Admin Screen Customizer. This powerful and easy-to-use plugin provides a complete suite of tools to rebrand and control the entire admin experience. Whether you’re building sites for clients and need a white-label solution, or you simply want to streamline your own dashboard, this plugin is the perfect fit.

Take full control of your site’s branding from the login screen to the admin footer, and create a clean, professional environment for yourself and your users.

Key Features

Powerful Login Screen Customizer
Custom Logo: Upload your own logo, control its width and height with interactive sliders, and set its alignment (left, center, right).
Logo Link: Change the URL and hover title of the logo to point to your own website.
Page Background: Set a custom background color or upload a full-screen background image.
Background Controls: Get full control over the background image with settings for position, size (cover, contain), repeat, and attachment (fixed, scroll).
Login Form Styling: Customize the login form itself with a custom background color or image.
Google Fonts: Choose from a selection of popular Google Fonts to style your login form text.
Animations: Apply subtle animations like “Fade In” or “Slide Up” to the login form.
Custom Borders: Adjust the form’s border width, style (solid, dashed), color, and corner radius.
Custom Messages: Change the default login error message, the “Lost your password?” text, and the “Back to” link.
Footer Text: Add a custom copyright notice or message to the login page footer.

Professional Maintenance Mode

One-Click Activation: Easily enable a beautiful, fully responsive maintenance page for site visitors.
Admin Access: Logged-in administrators can still view and interact with the full website as normal, and you can optionally let every logged-in user through.
Correct Status Code: Visitors receive a 503 response with a Retry-After header, so search engines treat the downtime as temporary.
Custom Content: Set a custom heading and use the WordPress editor to add your main message.
Branding: Upload your logo and set its position on the maintenance page.
Full Background Control: Customize the background with a color or an image, including position, size, and repeat settings.
Social Media Links: Add icons and links to your social media profiles (Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram).
Custom Footer: Add your own copyright or footer text.

Admin Area & Dashboard Cleanup

Clean Up Admin Bar: Remove unwanted items like the WordPress logo, site name, customize link, update counter, and comments link.
Remove ‘Howdy’: Replace the “Howdy, [username]” greeting with just the username, on English and translated sites alike.
Hide Admin Bar by Role: Hide the entire admin bar on the front-end for specific user roles (e.g., Subscriber, Customer).
Disable Dashboard Widgets: Declutter your dashboard by disabling default widgets like “Welcome to WordPress,” “Activity,” “At a Glance,” and more.
Custom Admin Footer: Replace the default “Thank you for creating with WordPress” text with your own custom HTML content for both the left and right sides of the footer.

Global WordPress Feature Control

Disable Gutenberg: Revert to the Classic Editor with a single click.
Disable Comments: Turn off comments globally across your entire site.
Disable REST API: Protect your site by disabling REST API access for non-logged-in users.
Disable Feeds: Turn off all RSS feeds.
Disable All Updates: Hide all update notifications for the WordPress core, plugins, and themes.
Disable Author Archives: Disable author pages to improve SEO and prevent user enumeration.

Screenshots

Login screen settings with live logo and background controls.
Login screen settings with live logo and background controls.
Admin bar clean-up and per-role visibility.
Admin bar clean-up and per-role visibility.
Dashboard widget controls.
Dashboard widget controls.
Global feature switches.
Global feature switches.
Maintenance mode settings and the front-end maintenance page.
Maintenance mode settings and the front-end maintenance page.

Installation

  1. Upload the arik-admin-screen-customizer folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to Appearance > Arik Admin Customizer to access the settings page and begin customizing.

FAQ

Where do I find the settings?

Under Appearance > Arik Admin Customizer, or via the “Settings” link next to the plugin on the Plugins screen.

Will maintenance mode lock me out of my own site?

No. Users who can manage options always see the real site, and the login screen and admin area are never blocked. You can also allow every logged-in user through from the Maintenance tab.

Does “Disable All Updates” stop security updates too?

Yes. It hides every update notice and disables automatic background updates, so remember to check for updates manually from time to time.

Are Google Fonts required?

No. The Form Font setting defaults to the WordPress font and loads nothing externally. Only pick a Google Font if your privacy policy allows requests to fonts.googleapis.com.

Does the plugin delete my settings when I remove it?

Only if you ask it to. Enable “Delete all settings on uninstall” on the General tab first. Deactivating the plugin never deletes anything.

Is the plugin compatible with WooCommerce HPOS?

Yes. Compatibility with High-Performance Order Storage and cart/checkout blocks is declared explicitly.

Reviews

Lightweight and Handy Admin Customizer

farhadshohag September 25, 2025
Great plugin! Very lightweight and easy to use for customizing the WordPress admin screen. Perfect for client projects where a clean dashboard experience is needed. Looking forward to more customization options in future updates!
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Contributors & Developers

“Arik Admin Screen Customizer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors
  • Tanmoy Biswas

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Changelog

2.0.2

  • Tested: compatibility verified against WordPress 7.1 and WooCommerce 11.1.
  • Fixed: a checkbox could be switched on but never off again, because unchecked boxes were merged back from the stored settings.
  • Fixed: author archives were redirected to the homepage even when “Disable Author Archives” was off.
  • Fixed: “Disable All Updates” had no effect at all; it is now implemented for core, plugins, themes and automatic background updates.
  • Fixed: a value of 0 (border width, border radius) fell back to the default and could not be saved.
  • Fixed: select fields and sliders showed a different default than the one actually applied on the front-end.
  • Fixed: “Remove Howdy” only worked on English installations.
  • Fixed: PHP notice when $pagenow was undefined during the maintenance mode check.
  • Fixed: the plugin never loaded its translations, and the bundled language files used the wrong text domain and file names. German translation rebuilt and compiled.
  • Fixed: an outdated WooCommerce version disabled the whole plugin instead of only warning about the WooCommerce related options.
  • Fixed: the maintenance page logo position setting had no effect, and the footer could overlap the content on small screens.
  • Fixed: settings page tab parameter is now validated against the registered tabs.
  • Fixed: media uploader and preview now fall back gracefully when an attachment has been deleted.
  • Added: login page footer text, custom “Lost your password?” text, custom “Back to site” link text and a custom login error message.
  • Added: optional “let all logged-in users see the site” bypass for maintenance mode.
  • Added: opt-in “Delete all settings on uninstall” with a proper uninstall.php (multisite aware).
  • Added: two more login form animations and three more Google Font choices.
  • Improved: every setting is now validated against a typed schema before it is stored, colors, URLs, integers and select values included.
  • Improved: all generated CSS is built from whitelisted values, so no stored value can break out into the stylesheet.
  • Improved: maintenance page now sends no-cache headers, a noindex robots tag and accessible social links.
  • Improved: “Disable Comments” also clears the admin bar node, the recent comments widget and the comment feed link.
  • Improved: “Disable REST API” respects authentication decisions made by other plugins and keeps oEmbed public.
  • Improved: admin CSS for the Help & Support tab, small screens and RTL languages.
  • Improved: strings in the media uploader are translatable, and the settings screen is more accessible.

2.0.1

  • Maintenance release.

2.0.0

  • Initial stable release of the plugin.

Meta

  • Version 2.0.2
  • Last updated 13 hours ago
  • Active installations Fewer than 10
  • WordPress version 5.8 or higher
  • Tested up to 7.1
  • PHP version 7.4 or higher
  • Tags
    admin baradmin customizeradmin logindisable gutenbergmaintenance mode
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