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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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

Key Features<\/h3>\n\n

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

Professional Maintenance Mode<\/h3>\n\n

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

Admin Area & Dashboard Cleanup<\/h3>\n\n

Clean Up Admin Bar:<\/strong> Remove unwanted items like the WordPress logo, site name, customize link, update counter, and comments link.\nRemove 'Howdy':<\/strong> Replace the \"Howdy, [username]\" greeting with just the username, on English and translated sites alike.\nHide Admin Bar by Role:<\/strong> Hide the entire admin bar on the front-end for specific user roles (e.g., Subscriber, Customer).\nDisable Dashboard Widgets:<\/strong> Declutter your dashboard by disabling default widgets like \"Welcome to WordPress,\" \"Activity,\" \"At a Glance,\" and more.\nCustom Admin Footer:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n

Global WordPress Feature Control<\/h3>\n\n

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

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  1. Upload the arik-admin-screen-customizer folder to the \/wp-content\/plugins\/ directory.<\/li>\n
  2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.<\/li>\n
  3. Go to Appearance > Arik Admin Customizer to access the settings page and begin customizing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    Where do I find the settings?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

    Under Appearance > Arik Admin Customizer, or via the \"Settings\" link next to the plugin on the Plugins screen.<\/p><\/dd>\n

    Will maintenance mode lock me out of my own site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

    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.<\/p><\/dd>\n

    Does \"Disable All Updates\" stop security updates too?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

    Yes. It hides every update notice and disables automatic background updates, so remember to check for updates manually from time to time.<\/p><\/dd>\n

    Are Google Fonts required?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

    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.<\/p><\/dd>\n

    Does the plugin delete my settings when I remove it?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

    Only if you ask it to. Enable \"Delete all settings on uninstall\" on the General tab first. Deactivating the plugin never deletes anything.<\/p><\/dd>\n

    Is the plugin compatible with WooCommerce HPOS?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

    Yes. Compatibility with High-Performance Order Storage and cart\/checkout blocks is declared explicitly.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n

    2.0.2<\/h4>\n\n
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    • Tested: compatibility verified against WordPress 7.1 and WooCommerce 11.1.<\/li>\n
    • Fixed: a checkbox could be switched on but never off again, because unchecked boxes were merged back from the stored settings.<\/li>\n
    • Fixed: author archives were redirected to the homepage even when \"Disable Author Archives\" was off.<\/li>\n
    • Fixed: \"Disable All Updates\" had no effect at all; it is now implemented for core, plugins, themes and automatic background updates.<\/li>\n
    • Fixed: a value of 0 (border width, border radius) fell back to the default and could not be saved.<\/li>\n
    • Fixed: select fields and sliders showed a different default than the one actually applied on the front-end.<\/li>\n
    • Fixed: \"Remove Howdy\" only worked on English installations.<\/li>\n
    • Fixed: PHP notice when $pagenow was undefined during the maintenance mode check.<\/li>\n
    • 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.<\/li>\n
    • Fixed: an outdated WooCommerce version disabled the whole plugin instead of only warning about the WooCommerce related options.<\/li>\n
    • Fixed: the maintenance page logo position setting had no effect, and the footer could overlap the content on small screens.<\/li>\n
    • Fixed: settings page tab parameter is now validated against the registered tabs.<\/li>\n
    • Fixed: media uploader and preview now fall back gracefully when an attachment has been deleted.<\/li>\n
    • Added: login page footer text, custom \"Lost your password?\" text, custom \"Back to site\" link text and a custom login error message.<\/li>\n
    • Added: optional \"let all logged-in users see the site\" bypass for maintenance mode.<\/li>\n
    • Added: opt-in \"Delete all settings on uninstall\" with a proper uninstall.php (multisite aware).<\/li>\n
    • Added: two more login form animations and three more Google Font choices.<\/li>\n
    • Improved: every setting is now validated against a typed schema before it is stored, colors, URLs, integers and select values included.<\/li>\n
    • Improved: all generated CSS is built from whitelisted values, so no stored value can break out into the stylesheet.<\/li>\n
    • Improved: maintenance page now sends no-cache headers, a noindex robots tag and accessible social links.<\/li>\n
    • Improved: \"Disable Comments\" also clears the admin bar node, the recent comments widget and the comment feed link.<\/li>\n
    • Improved: \"Disable REST API\" respects authentication decisions made by other plugins and keeps oEmbed public.<\/li>\n
    • Improved: admin CSS for the Help & Support tab, small screens and RTL languages.<\/li>\n
    • Improved: strings in the media uploader are translatable, and the settings screen is more accessible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

      2.0.1<\/h4>\n\n
        \n
      • Maintenance release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

        2.0.0<\/h4>\n\n
          \n
        • Initial stable release of the plugin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"The ultimate toolkit to white label and customize the WordPress admin dashboard, login screen, admin bar, and enable a professional maintenance mode.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/253519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253519"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/wcblogs87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=253519"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=253519"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=253519"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=253519"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=253519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}