FeatherDash

FeatherDash turns wp-admin into a clean, modern, branded workspace — in minutes, on every site.

Built by an agency for client handover: fewer menus, no clutter, a login screen with your logo, and an admin that feels fast.

Out of the box FeatherDash only changes the look: the admin theme, your accent colour and a tidier toolbar. Everything else — clean-up, front-end and security options — stays as WordPress has it until you switch it on.

A modern admin theme

• Dark frame with a rounded content card, the Inter font and your accent colour
• Accordion submenus (or hover flyouts)
• Pages load on hover and fade in — the admin feels instant
• A proper mobile drawer on phones
• A layer on top of WordPress’ own styles: the block editor and plugins keep working

Show only what matters

• Choose which WordPress toolbar items are visible
• Choose which core dashboard widgets show, and add a welcome widget for clients
• Hide Help tabs, Screen Options and update notices for non-administrators
• Turn off Appearance screens you don’t use (Themes, Customizer, Widgets, Patterns…)
• Turn comments or blog posts off site-wide
• Last login and registration date columns on the Users screen
• “Saved” messages as pop-ups

Ready for handover

• Branded login screen: logo and colours
• Maintenance mode with a proper 503 page, preview and editor bypass
• Favicon (Site Icon) from the settings
• GA4 tag with Google Consent Mode, Search Console verification and the Meta Pixel

Faster, leaner front end

• Remove emoji scripts, feed links, generator and other head tags, version strings
• Control jQuery and jQuery Migrate

Security basics

• Turn off XML-RPC, hide REST users from visitors, block ?author= scans

Set it up once

• Export and import all settings as JSON (copy, paste or file)

FeatherDash Pro

Everything agencies need on top: a 4-level drag-and-drop menu builder, Modern and Light themes with a per-user theme switch, hide toolbar items, dashboard widgets and admin notices added by plugins, post type columns (order, hide, sort, add featured image, ID, slug or ACF fields), a GA4 dashboard widget with live visitors, a client request widget (email and Slack), white label, login background image and message, and Open Graph / X cards with a per-page editor. Learn more

Source code and build

The files in dist/ are built with Vite from the human-readable source that ships with the plugin:

• assets/scripts/ — JavaScript source (vanilla ES modules): admin.js → dist/admin.js, settings.js → dist/settings.js
• assets/styles/ — CSS source (plain CSS): admin.css and the partials in assets/styles/admin/ → dist/admin.css; editor.css, login.css, maintenance.css, settings.css, tinymce.css → the files of the same name in dist/
• dist/chunks/sortable.esm.js — SortableJS (MIT), from npm sortablejs
• dist/fonts/ — the Inter variable font (SIL OFL 1.1), from npm @fontsource-variable/inter

To rebuild: install Node.js, run npm install, then npm run build (configured in package.json and vite.config.js). npm run dev rebuilds on every change.

External services

FeatherDash connects to these services only in the cases listed.

Freemius

Handles the optional usage statistics and the upgrade to Pro. With your opt-in (asked once after activation, and you can skip it), it sends your site URL, WordPress, PHP and plugin versions and the admin’s name and email to Freemius. Nothing is sent if you skip. Terms · Privacy policy

Google tag (gtag.js)

When you enter a GA4 Measurement ID (Settings → FeatherDash → Analytics), visitors’ browsers load the Google tag from googletagmanager.com and send page views to Google Analytics, with Consent Mode defaults set to “denied” until the visitor agrees. Terms · Privacy policy

Meta Pixel

When you enter a Pixel ID, visitors’ browsers load the Pixel from connect.facebook.net and send page views to Meta (browsers without JavaScript load a tracking image from www.facebook.com/tr instead); with “Wait for cookie consent” on, only after the visitor allows marketing cookies. Terms · Privacy policy

The Search Console verification code is only a meta tag on your home page; FeatherDash doesn’t contact Google for it.