Star any screen
Dashboard, Posts, Pages, Media, Users, Comments, Tools, Settings — and any screen another plugin adds. The palette lists them all; you keep the four you actually live in.
WordPress plugin
Favorite Admin Bookmarks
The admin is a lot of screens and you only live in four of them. Star what you use, keep it in your order, and get there from anywhere with one chord.
- WordPress 6.2+
- PHP 7.4+
- GPL-2.0-or-later
- Multisite
- No telemetry
- 0
- Front-end requests
- 1
- Row per user, per site
- Alt+F
- To reach any favorite
Esc
Editorial
Shop
Site
Nothing matches that. The real palette also searches every admin screen, not only the ones you starred.
AltFopens it · type to filter · arrows to move · Enter to pick
What it does
Everything an admin bar should have done years ago
Small plugin, narrow job: get you to the screen you meant, in the order you set, without touching the mouse and without a second browser tab.
Star any object
A post, a page, a product, a user, a term, a media file. The star sits in the list table and in the sidebar of the edit screen, so favoriting never means walking away from what you were doing.
Two homes, one list
The admin-bar palette and a dashboard widget are two views of the same set. Reorder in whichever one is open; the other is already in the new order.
Groups
Name a group — Editorial, Shop, Ops — and both the palette and the widget respect it. Groups step out of the way when they hold nothing you can reach.
Per user, seeded by role
Every account keeps its own favorites, order and groups. A role can start from a shared set, which anyone is free to rearrange — a suggestion, not a rule.
Alt+F, from anywhere
One chord from any admin screen opens the palette. A few letters is enough: “art” finds Articles, “ord” finds Orders. Fuzzy matching, so you do not have to remember the exact word.
Counts where they count
Pending comments, updates waiting, orders to process. The number rides beside the favorite — and only when there is something to say.
Reorder without a mouse
Drag the grip, or lift the item and move it with the arrow keys. Same result either way, and every move is announced rather than merely drawn.
Favorites first
Starred rows can lead a list table, so the four posts you are actually working on arrive at the top — for you, on your account, and for nobody else.
Import and export
A favorite set is one small JSON file. Move it to another site, hand it to a new starter, or keep it in version control next to the theme it belongs to.
Nothing on the front end
No asset, no query, no markup on the public site. One row per user, loaded in wp-admin only, and its data goes with it on uninstall.
Translation ready
Every string is translatable, and the layout has room for the languages that need forty percent more width than English does.
Where it lives
Two surfaces, one list, your order
The palette is for getting somewhere. The widget is for arriving and finding the set already arranged. Neither is a copy of the other: reorder in one and the other is already in the new order, because there is only one list.
- Per user. Your favorites are yours. A role can be seeded with a starting set, and nobody's order is anyone else's business.
- Counts, quietly. A number appears beside a favorite only when it has something to say — twelve comments waiting, four orders to process, an update ready to install.
- Sortable both ways. Favorites can lead a list table, so the work in progress sits above the archive.
- Built to be looked at. The drag grip, the star, the focus ring and the reorder all announce themselves; nothing depends on colour alone to say what is starred.
Getting there
Three steps, about a minute
Install and activate
One plugin, no wizard, no remote calls. It is quiet until you star something.
Star what you use
The star is already in the list tables and the edit sidebar. Click it, or press Alt+F and type the screen's name.
Get there from anywhere
Alt+F, a few letters, Enter. The palette remembers the order you set and the role you gave it.
The small print
What it needs, and what it costs
No account, no licence key, no call home. It is a plugin, and it behaves like one.
- Requires
- WordPress 6.2+and PHP 7.4 or newer
- License
- GPL-2.0-or-laterthe WordPress standard
- Footprint
- Admin onlynothing loads on the front end
- Data
- One row per userremoved on uninstall
- Shortcuts
- Alt+Fplus per-entry keys if you set them
- Compatibility
- Classic & blockand every list table you extend
For developers
Your screens are favoritable too
The plugin asks for the screens it knows about and gets out of the way for the rest. Anything you register becomes a first-class favorite: it appears in the palette, it takes a position in the order, and it counts like any other entry.
// Make an admin screen the plugin does not know about favoritable.
add_filter( 'fav_admin_screens', function ( array $screens ): array {
$screens['acf'] = [
'label' => __( 'Field Groups', 'favorite-admin-bookmarks' ),
'url' => admin_url( 'edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group' ),
];
return $screens;
} );Before you ask
The questions, answered
Does it slow the admin down?
It adds no query to the front end and one option read per admin page load, cached per user for the request. The palette is a few kilobytes of script, loaded only in wp-admin and only once.
Can everyone on the team have a different set?
Yes — favorites, order and groups are per user. If you want a starting point for a role, seed it from the plugin's settings and let people rearrange it. Seeding is a suggestion: nobody's set is locked.
What happens to my favorites when I uninstall?
They go, by design and by WordPress convention. Export first if you want them: the export is a JSON file you can keep, share, or commit alongside your theme.
Does it work on multisite?
Per site and per user, so an editor can have a different set on each. Activate per site, or network-activate and turn it off where it is not wanted.
Will it fight my other admin plugins?
It claims one admin-bar slot and adds a column to list tables it recognises. Everything it draws can be turned off individually, and it takes no action on pages where you have switched it off.
Can I star something the plugin does not know about?
Yes. Every screen and post type the plugin does not recognise can be registered through its filter, which is how custom dashboards and plugin admin pages become favoritable.
Want it on your site?
Tell us what your admin actually looks like — how many people, which screens, and what you keep opening by hand. We will send the plugin and, if it is missing something you need, build it in.
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