Polanger Admin Suite – Control & Customize WordPress Admin
Polanger – Admin Suite is a powerful, all-in-one solution to fully control and optimize your WordPress admin experience.
Instead of installing multiple plugins for menu management, login security, dashboard cleanup, and activity tracking – Polanger brings everything together in one clean, modern interface.
Whether you’re a developer, agency, or site owner, Polanger helps you create a cleaner, safer, and more controlled WordPress admin panel.
Why Polanger Admin Suite?
- All-in-One Admin Control – Replace multiple plugins with one powerful solution
- Clean & Organized Dashboard – Remove clutter and simplify your workflow
- Enhanced Security – Protect login and track activity
- Modern UI – Fast, intuitive, and easy to use
- Built for Agencies & Teams – Perfect for multi-user environments
Core Features
Admin Menu Manager
- Hide any admin menu or submenu item
- Role-based visibility control
- Rename menu items and submenus
- Change icons with 200+ Dashicons
- Drag & drop menu reordering
- Block direct URL access to hidden pages
- Visual indicators for hidden and modified items
- Custom admin menu builder (create your own menus)
Admin Bar Customization
- Replace or remove WordPress logo
- Hide unwanted admin bar items
- Add custom links with icons
- Manage frontend and backend admin bar
- Auto-detect plugin and theme items
Login Security & Customization
- Custom login URL (hide wp-login.php)
- Google reCAPTCHA v2 & v3 support
- Custom login page design (logo, colors, background)
- Brute force protection
- Secure login flow enhancements
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
- Email-based verification codes
- Role-based enforcement
- Recovery keys for backup access
- Configurable expiration times
- Super admin protection
Activity Log
- Track logins, plugin changes, content updates, and more
- Filter by user, action, and date
- Export logs (CSV)
- Email alerts for critical actions
- GDPR/KVKK compliant logging
Dashboard Control
- Hide default WordPress widgets
- Hide third-party plugin widgets
- Control admin notices
- Create custom dashboard widgets
- Per-user dashboard visibility
Multisite Control
- Network-wide default settings for multisite installations
- Site-level override controls for supported modules
- Lock system for Menu Manager, Admin Bar, Login Security, Activity Log, and Dashboard Center
- Network-aware addon activation support
- Developer-friendly effective settings filter architecture
Access Control
- Restrict plugin access to specific users
- Read-only mode support
- Prevent unauthorized access
- Super admin safety protection
Design System
- Token-based admin theming system for consistent and scalable customization
- Customize colors across admin UI (sidebar, admin bar, background, text, surfaces)
- Sidebar background, text color, and menu item styling
- Admin bar background, text color, submenu background, and submenu text color
- Built-in presets (e.g. Dark, Minimal, Default) with one-click application
- Automatic CSS generation with cache-friendly performance
- Smart contrast correction for readable text on both dark and light surfaces
- Typography controls including font family and basic shape settings
- Scoped styling to avoid conflicts with WordPress core and plugins
- Extensible architecture for future themes, layouts, and design packs
Frontend Content Visibility
- Per-content frontend access control for posts, pages, and supported custom post types
- Visibility modes for public, logged-in users only, selected roles only, or hidden-from-selected-roles workflows
- Multiple denied behaviors including login redirect, 404, access denied message, and custom redirect
- Theme-friendly replacement mode or dedicated access denied page for stricter template control
- Optional hiding from archives, search results, public REST responses, and WordPress XML sitemaps
- Rich-text access denied messages with TinyMCE, HTML, and shortcode support
Authenticator App (TOTP)
- Google Authenticator and Microsoft Authenticator support
- Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) verification
- Multi-user architecture with per-user enrollment
- Mandatory enrollment flow for users in required roles
- Profile page 2FA management (Users → Profile)
- Admin visibility: enrollment status only, no secret access
- Safe secret rotation with pending secret system
- Old authenticator remains active until new setup is verified
- Secure secret storage with AES-256-CBC encryption
- Manual secret entry with provisioning URI support
- One-time recovery keys (10 keys per user, auto-regenerated on rotation)
- Email fallback option when authenticator is unavailable
- Brute-force protection with configurable lockout
- Replay attack prevention with time-slice tracking
- Seamless integration with core 2FA settings (roles, lockout, expiry)
reCAPTCHA Protection
- Centralized Google reCAPTCHA key management (v2 and v3)
- All reCAPTCHA configuration consolidated in one dedicated addon
- Login form protection
- Registration form protection
- Lost password form protection
- Comment form protection (works with Comment Security addon)
- Configurable v3 score threshold
- Badge position customization for v3
- Automatic script loading only when needed
Addon Architecture
Polanger Admin Suite includes a modular addon system designed for scalability and clarity.
Core Addons
- Admin Bar
- Dashboard Center
- Admin Activity Log
- Custom Admin Menu Builder
- Multisite Control
- Design System
- Comment Security Layer
- Authenticator (TOTP)
- reCAPTCHA
3rd Party Addons
- Reserved for future ecosystem integrations
- Addons are managed from the built-in Addons tab
- Core addons and external addons are separated for easier management
New Addons
The following optional addons are included with Polanger Admin Suite and can be enabled from the built-in Addons screen.
WooCommerce Security
WooCommerce Security is a free optional addon included with Polanger Admin Suite. It extends Polanger protections to WooCommerce customer account flows.
- Adds Polanger reCAPTCHA support to WooCommerce login, registration, and lost password forms, including My Account and supported login prompts
- Carries the core 2FA challenge flow into WooCommerce customer login so users return to the correct account destination after verification
- Includes a dedicated Settings > WooCommerce tab with automatic rate limiting profiles for login, registration, and password reset abuse
- Offers Relaxed, Balanced, and Strict protection modes without overwhelming store owners with low-level tuning
- Requires Polanger Admin Suite and WooCommerce to be installed and active
Maintenance Center
Maintenance Center is a free optional addon for branded maintenance windows, coming soon pages, and deployment-safe public access control.
- Adds a dedicated Settings > Maintenance tab for managing maintenance mode from one guided workflow
- Lets you pick a logo and background from the Media Library instead of manually pasting image URLs
- Includes alignment controls for the logo, headline, message, and footer so non-technical users can build cleaner layouts faster
- Uses the WordPress editor for the main message and footer, with support for links, shortcodes, and basic HTML
- Supports solid color, gradient, or image backgrounds, visitor countdown timers, signed preview links, and custom CSS/JavaScript fields
- Includes role-based and IP-based bypass rules plus deployment locks for comments, registration, checkout, and purchases where applicable
- Requires Polanger Admin Suite to be installed and active
Polanger Shield
Polanger Shield is a free optional addon for admin-side page governance and contextual guidance.
- Create rules directly from the live WordPress admin screen using the floating Shield button
- Block specific admin pages for selected administrators and optionally deny direct URL access
- Hide individual admin interface areas such as metaboxes, plugin panels, or settings sections without editing third-party plugin code
- Attach internal notes to exact admin elements so selected users see the guidance where it matters
- Includes a centralized rule dashboard, rule testing flow, temporary safe mode, and Activity Log integration
- Requires Polanger Admin Suite to be installed and active
Built for Real-World Use
Polanger is designed for:
- Agencies managing client websites
- Developers who need full admin control
- Teams working with multiple user roles
- Site owners who want a cleaner dashboard
Lightweight & Secure
- Built with WordPress coding standards
- Nonce verification for all actions
- Capability checks for all operations
- Sanitized inputs and secure database queries
- Optimized for performance
Future-Ready Architecture
Polanger is built with a modular system, making it ready for future extensions and integrations.
Maintenance Policy (Current Phase)
To keep the core stable and reduce long-term maintenance overhead, Polanger is currently in a maintenance-focused release phase:
- Core feature freeze: no major new core modules planned
- Priority is stability: security updates, compatibility updates, and regression fixes
- Addon-first growth model: new capabilities should be delivered through addons
- Developer extensibility remains active through hooks, filters, and addon architecture
Available Languages
Polanger Admin Suite currently includes translations for:
- English (default)
- Turkish (tr_TR)
- Arabic (ar)
- Russian (ru_RU)
- Chinese – Simplified (zh_CN)
- Spanish (es_ES)
- German (de_DE)
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