Title: Quick Admin Links
Author: Mark Barnes
Published: <strong>December 16, 2008</strong>
Last modified: March 10, 2009

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# Quick Admin Links

 By [Mark Barnes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mark8barnes/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/quick-admin-links.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/quick-admin-links/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/quick-admin-links/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/quick-admin-links/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/quick-admin-links/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/quick-admin-links/)

## Description

Quite possibly the most simple and useful WordPress plug-in you never knew you needed!
Quick Admin Links is a small widget. Put it at the top of your sidebar, and it adds
some useful admin links on every page, allowing you to add new posts/pages, edit
existing posts/pages, go to the admin, or log out. In short, it’s everything the
meta widget should have been, without the annoying extra links.

Quick Admin Links is intelligent. It doesn’t display at all unless the user is logged
in (or unless you choose to display a log-in link). And if you are logged in, it
will only show links that are relevant to your capabilities and the page you are
on. You also have complete control over what is displayed, so you can turn off any
links you don’t use.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * **Frontend:** This is what the widget looks like when you’re logged in as admin.
 * [[
 * **Backend:** You can select which links you want displayed. No links are displayed
   unless their relevant to the currently logged in user, on the page they’re currently
   viewing.

## Installation

 1. Download the plugin, and unzip it.
 2. Place the quick-admin-links folder in your wp-content/plugins folder and upload
    it to your website.
 3. Activate the plugin from the plugins tab of your WordPress admin.
 4. Add the widget to your sidebar from the Widgets page of Design (Appearance in WP
    2.7+). It’s probably best at the top where you can see it. Drag it there.
 5. Edit the widgets options to confirm which links you want to display. Remember to
    save your settings!
 6. If you don’t want the log-in link displayed at the top of your sidebar, there’s
    another simple widget (called “Log on”) which you can also add lower down your 
    sidebar.

## FAQ

  I can’t see anything in my sidebar!

Quick Admin Links only shows links to users who are logged on, so make sure you 
are. It also only shows links that you have chosen to be displayed so make sure 
you’ve done so (step 5 in the installation).

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Quick Admin Links” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Mark Barnes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mark8barnes/)

[Translate “Quick Admin Links” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/quick-admin-links)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-admin-links/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/quick-admin-links/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/quick-admin-links/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/quick-admin-links/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **0.11**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **40+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.7.1**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-admin-links/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[Frontend](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/frontend/)
   [links](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/links/)[widget](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/quick-admin-links/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Mark Barnes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mark8barnes/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/quick-admin-links/)

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