Deskmode Pro Suite – Customize & Secure Your WordPress Admin
A WordPress admin plugin to Customize and secure your WordPress dashboard
The first screen your client sees, every time
WordPress custom login page
Your logo instead of the WordPress one, a layout that looks like it was designed this decade, and colours that follow the accent you picked for the dashboard. Set it once and the sign-in screen stops looking like everyone else's.
Brand the screen your clients use most: login page with a custom logo
WordPress custom login page
The default sign-in screen has looked the same for over a decade: a grey box, a blue link, and somebody else's logo above it. It is also the page your client sees more often than any other — every morning, before anything else.
Deskmode replaces it with a screen that carries your name. Not a skin over the old one: a different layout, with the spacing, the shadows and the rounded corners of something designed recently.
Your logo, not WordPress's
- Pick any image from the media library — the logo links to your own site, not to wordpress.org.
- Leave it empty and the screen falls back to a clean typographic header with your site name, which still beats the default.
Colours that follow the dashboard
- The accent you chose for the admin theme carries over to the login page: buttons, focus rings and links match without a second place to configure.
- Change the accent once and both screens move together — there is no way for them to drift apart.
The copyright line
- Write your own notice under the form: agency name, client name, whatever the handover calls for.
- The year updates on its own. A footer that still says 2019 tells visitors more about your maintenance than you would like.
- Or switch it off entirely, for the sites where a bare screen is the point.
Custom CSS, when you need the last five percent
- A field for your own rules, applied to the login page alone.
- It is there for the details the settings do not cover: a background image, a font already loaded by the site, spacing tuned to a particular logo.
It stays a WordPress login page. The form, the fields and the authentication flow are untouched — two-factor, password managers and any plugin hooking into the login all keep working. Only the appearance changes, which is the point: a sign-in screen is not the place to be inventive with the mechanics.
Why it matters beyond looks. A client signing in through a page with your branding knows whose software they are using and who to call when something breaks. The default screen sends them to wordpress.org, which is the one place that cannot help them.
Frequently asked
WordPress custom login page: the questions we get most
Five answers on what actually changes, what stays untouched, and what happens if you deactivate the plugin.
How do I create a WordPress custom login page?
From the plugin's Login Options screen: pick the logo from the media library, write the copyright line and, if you need it, add your own CSS rules. Nothing to upload over FTP, no theme file to edit.
Colours are not set here: they follow the accent you chose for the dashboard, so the two screens stay matched without lining them up by hand.
Doing the same by hand means hooking into login_enqueue_scripts from a child theme and maintaining that code through every WordPress release. The plugin does it from a settings screen instead.
Does the login form still work the same way?
Yes. A WordPress custom login page changes only the appearance: the form, the fields and WordPress's own authentication are untouched. Two-factor, password managers, remember-me and any plugin hooking into the login all keep working.
That is deliberate. The login screen is where a mistake locks everyone out, yourself included: it is not the place to rewrite the mechanics.
What happens if I deactivate the plugin?
The page reverts to the WordPress default, with nothing left behind and no broken screen. Your settings stay saved: reactivate the plugin and the logo, the copyright line and the CSS are as you left them.
Worth knowing before you hand a site over: if the client ever removes Deskmode, they will not be left with an unusable sign-in page.
Can I use a different logo on each site I look after?
Yes: the logo, the copyright line and the CSS are per-site settings, so every WordPress custom login page you set up is independent. A site handed to a client can carry the client's branding, and your own sites can carry yours.
If you run many sites on the same configuration, exporting the settings lets you replicate the lot on another install without redoing the work.
Does the copyright line update itself?
The year does. It is the detail everyone forgets: a page still showing 2019 in 2026 tells whoever sees it that the site has not been looked after in a while.
The wording is yours, and you can drop it entirely: on some sites a bare screen is exactly right.