Deskmode Pro Suite – Customize & Secure Your WordPress Admin
A WordPress admin plugin to Customize and secure your WordPress dashboard
About us
Who builds Deskmode: twenty-seven years spent inside WordPress
This is not a startup’s side project. It is the working toolkit of 3WEB, an Italian company that has been building and maintaining websites, servers and internet services for its clients since 1999. The plugin we sell is the one we use every day.
The company
3WEB, since 1999
3WEB is a value-added reseller and service provider working in web and IT since 1999. The company was founded by Piero Bonarrigo, a computer engineer who had already been building websites in plain HTML for several years — among the first to do so in the province of Messina. The first one dates back to 1996.
Over twenty-five years we have taken a great many businesses to their first digital identity, from registering the domain to setting up their first mailbox. Today 3WEB registers and manages more than 150 domains on behalf of its clients.
Every service runs on our own servers, spread across datacentres in Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom, on a hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure built on OpenStack, with NVMe storage, a firewall and fail2ban active on every site, and geographically redundant backups on Amazon AWS and Google Cloud. System status is public and verifiable at status.3web.it.
In numbers
Experience you can count
Deskmode was not born in a lab. It was born while we were running all of this.
Every feature in the plugin passed through one of those sites first. If we did not genuinely need it, it did not make the cut.
The origin
How a file of notes became a plugin
When you manage more than a hundred and fifty domains, some jobs come round so often that you stop thinking of them as work and start thinking of them as a problem. The dashboard to make presentable before handing a site over. The login to lock down when the attempts start piling up. The database to clean after years of plugins installed and removed. The backup to move off the server. The IP address to check quickly, to work out whether that attempt came from a client travelling or from a bot on the other side of the world.
For years we solved all of it with six or seven different plugins, each with its own licence, its own interface and its own promotional banners. Then we started writing the missing pieces ourselves.
At some point those pieces had become more useful than the plugins they were meant to complement. We put them together, and that is Deskmode Suite.
The logic of the plugin follows the way we protect our servers. Our systems run a firewall and fail2ban, which stop hostile traffic before it ever reaches the application; Deskmode’s login guard does the same thing one level up, inside WordPress, evaluating its rules before the password is even checked. The network tools come from the same habit: when you run infrastructure, knowing who sits behind an IP address is not curiosity, it is routine.
How we work
The same philosophy as our services
What we have believed for twenty-five years applies to the plugin too.
Work with passion
We believe in the projects we take part in. That holds for a client’s website and for a feature in the plugin: if it can be done better, it gets rewritten.
Security without compromise
Redundant backups, a firewall on every site, encryption on the archives. The same choices we make on our own servers are the ones you find inside Deskmode.
Operational continuity
Lean, secure services designed so the client never stops. A plugin that keeps working after the licence expires comes straight from that principle.
Independence and fast answers
We built a model that does not depend on the big industry players, so we can support people immediately. The person who answers you is the person who wrote the code.
Where we are
Who builds Deskmode, and where to find them
Behind Deskmode Suite there is no anonymous marketplace profile, but a registered company based in Sicily, with a VAT number and twenty-five years of clients behind it. If something does not work, you know who to write to — and the person who replies is the person who wrote the plugin.
Company details
- Who builds Deskmode
- 3WEB
- Address
- Via Joe Pass, 22
98040 Gualtieri Sicaminò (ME), Italy - VAT number
- IT02159120837
- Company register
- REA ME187347
- Website
- www.3web.it
- Service status
- status.3web.it
Frequently asked
Who builds Deskmode: the questions worth asking
Before handing a plugin the keys to your dashboard, it is fair to ask who is on the other end.
Who builds Deskmode, exactly?
3WEB, an Italian company, trading since 1999. Not a marketplace account, not a pseudonym: a registered business with a VAT number, a certified email address and an office you could visit — all of it listed further up this page.
That matters more for this kind of plugin than for most. Deskmode holds your login rules, your activity log and your backup credentials. If something goes wrong, you need to know who is accountable and under which country’s law.
Who answers when I write to support?
The people who write the code. There is no first line triaging tickets and no autoresponder that closes the conversation with a link to the documentation.
The practical benefit is that a bug report goes straight to someone who can fix it, rather than being translated twice on the way. The trade-off is honest too: we are a small team, so replies take working hours rather than minutes.
Does the plugin send my data anywhere?
No telemetry, no usage statistics, no site content leaving your server. The only outbound requests are the ones you trigger yourself, and each is named in the documentation: geolocation for an IP address you look up, WHOIS and AS data for a domain you query, and the optional vulnerability check against the WordPress.org directory.
Logs and backups stay on your own infrastructure. Nothing passes through us, which also means we could not read your data even if asked.
What happens to my sites if you stop developing it?
The fair answer is that nobody can promise a plugin will be maintained forever, and anyone who does is selling you reassurance rather than software. What we can point to is a company that has been trading since 1999 and a product we depend on ourselves.
Practically, your data is never locked in: backups are ordinary ZIP archives, logs live in standard database tables, and every module can be switched off from wp-config.php without dashboard access. Deactivating Deskmode leaves your site working exactly as it did before.