Deskmode Pro Suite features

WordPress admin tools built by an admin, for admins.

Start managing WordPress from one powerful plugin.

Deskmode Pro Suite protects your WordPress admin. It shows you exactly where an attack came from and, with proactive security, tells you who is already attacking other sites before they even reach yours. It also includes login hardening, two-factor authentication, geofencing, activity and mail logs, networking and IP lookup tools, database controls, backups, and a themed dark-mode dashboard.
You get all of these features in one installation.

These tools were built by an administrator, based on real-world experience

Every screen exists because a live site needed it, not to make a feature list look longer.

One plugin, not twenty

Stop using a lot of single-purpose plugins that overlap, conflict with each other and slow down your dashboard.

The admin is the target

Deskmode defends the login, the sessions and the database sitting behind them.

Trace the attack

You can see the IP address, country, network owner, user and timestamp for every event. This means you can find the origin of an attack, in a few seconds.

Deskmode Pro Suite features: manage WordPress from one plugin

Deskmode Pro Suite features: the full toolkit.

Deskmode Pro Suite is a set of WordPress admin tools that lets you manage WordPress from one plugin instead of many.
Built for the way you work, without compromising on style.

WordPress admin tools summary screens.

Login and access security

Networking tools and IP tracing

Database, backup and maintenance

The dashboard experience

Deskmode speaks five languages

The whole interface - settings, logs, warnings and inline help - is translated into five languages. The choice is per user, stored in the WordPress user profile, so an Italian agency and a German client can work in the same site each in their own language.

English Italiano Español Français Deutsch

How to switch language

  • Open the language switcher in the admin bar, at the top of any screen, and pick a language: the dashboard reloads translated.
  • Or set it in Deskmode → General, in the interface language field.
  • The setting applies to your account only. Other users, and the public site, are unaffected.

More about languages

Deskmode Pro Suite features: Proactive Security

Shared IP reputation

Every site running Deskmode blocks login attempts, and knows which address they came from. Put together, those blocks become something no single site can know on its own: who is going around WordPress sites right now.

Shared reputation is one of the reasons you can manage WordPress from one plugin instead of stacking a security plugin, a log plugin and a blocklist service on every site you look after.

When the feature is on, once a day the plugin sends our service the addresses it has blocked and receives the ones reported by everyone else. On the Login Security screen you get a list showing the address, how many different sites reported it, and when it was last seen.

Nothing is blocked automatically

Reported addresses are never blocked on their own: they appear in a list with a Block button next to each one, and you decide. That is a deliberate choice. An address that ends up on the list by mistake - a company VPN, a shared host - would be turned away on every site at once, and you would find out from the phone calls.

What leaves your site

  • The IP addresses you have blocked, and nothing else
  • No site content, no visitor data, no usernames
  • Your site is identified by a one-way hash rather than by its address: we know how many sites reported an address, not which ones
  • The feature is off by default and turns on with a checkbox: until you tick it, no request is made

Why these WordPress admin tools beat a general blocklist

General reputation services collect reports from any source, for any kind of attack. This list comes from WordPress sites and from attempts against WordPress logins: an address that has just tried two hundred passwords on another site is exactly what you want to know about before it reaches you.

Proactive security

Knowing before it is your turn

Integrating proactive security measures within your WordPress admin tools is the first step toward preventing vulnerabilities and intrusions.

Proactive means moving that moment earlier. An address currently trying passwords on other WordPress sites has already given itself away, just not to you. If that information reaches you before the address knocks on your door, you never take the first attempt at all.

That is what shared reputation does: every participating site reports the addresses it has blocked, and receives the ones reported by everyone else. No single site can know who is going around WordPress sites right now; thousands of sites together can.

Proactive does not mean automatic. Shared addresses do not walk into your blocklist on their own: they appear in a list with a Block button beside them, and you decide. Getting the information early is useful; handing over the decision is another matter entirely, and one wrong report would cost you dearly.


If you would rather not take part, leave the 'Deskmode Pro Suite features' checkbox off: everything else works exactly as before. Sites that contribute get the list, and that is the only reason the list exists.

Does everything switch itself on once the plugin is installed?

None of the features are required to be used.

A long list of WordPress admin tools might make you wonder: will all of this slow down my website? Not with Deskmode Pro Suite.
Each feature is completely separate and only runs when you enable it. Don't use a feature? Its code stays inactive. The result is simple: Deskmode only does what you need, without wasting resources on features you don't use.

What you gain when you manage WordPress from one plugin. Every module can be switched off from outside the dashboard by defining a constant in wp-config.php, which takes precedence over any setting stored in the database. That is the way out for when something goes wrong and you can no longer sign in, the thing you want to find at eleven at night, on a client’s site.

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