About this plugin
FocusDesk adds a single, quiet, animated switch to your admin. Flip it and everything you do not need disappears: menus, submenus, dashboard widgets, toolbar items, meta boxes, list-table columns, admin notices. Flip it back and everything returns, exactly as it was.
It is a per-user tool. Your rules are yours; a colleague on the same site keeps their own. Administrators can additionally publish shared presets and pick a starting preset per role.
It analyses your site first. After activation, open FocusDesk and visit the admin pages you want to organise. FocusDesk maps the menus, submenus, widgets and toolbar nodes those pages render — including items added by other plugins — groups them by vendor (WordPress core, WooCommerce, SEO, page builders, forms, security, cache, backup…), and gives your admin a noise score so you can see how much of it is really yours.
What it does
- One floating switch — always visible, never in the way. Drag it anywhere, double-click to fold it into a discreet handle, or use Shift + Alt + F.
- A dedicated admin colour scheme while focus is on, tinted with the accent colour you choose, plus a soft glowing border and a toolbar badge. Your own colour scheme comes straight back when you switch off.
- Presets with an identity — Zen, Writing, Shop, Orders only, Design, Maintenance. Each one has its own colour and icon: the switch shows which mode you are in, and the whole admin is repainted to match. One click and the rules are filled in for you; refine anything afterwards.
- An element picker — click any element in the admin and it is hidden from then on. No CSS knowledge needed.
- A dashboard widget with the noise score, the switch and the quick presets.
- WooCommerce aware — understands HPOS order screens, Analytics, Marketing, and can switch the heavy Analytics module off while you are focused.
- Nothing is deleted, no permission changes. FocusDesk hides interface, it is not a security plugin: a hidden screen is still reachable by direct URL for anyone who could already open it.
Three ways out, always
- The floating switch, which is never hidden.
- The emergency reset inside the toolbar badge: focus off, every rule cleared.
- define( 'DSFD_DISABLE', true ); in wp-config.php disables FocusDesk site-wide without deactivating it.
Privacy
FocusDesk stores its settings, presets, discovered interface map and per-user preferences in your own database. It makes no external connections. Uninstalling removes its stored data unless you choose to retain it.
Languages
The interface uses Italian on Italian WordPress installations and English as the source-language fallback elsewhere. org community translations take precedence. The installable package does not contain POT, PO or MO catalogs.