Admin Utilities

One page with a card for every core admin feature — Clients, Users, Projects, Tickets, Invoices, Automations, and the rest — so the account menu stays short and the full admin toolkit lives one click away.

What It Is

Admin Utilities is a launcher grid of link cards, one per core feature (22 in all), each with a short description of what lives behind it. It replaces the long list of admin links that used to sit in the account dropdown: the dropdown now shows just Users, Admin Utilities, and System Settings in its admin section, plus a Knowledge Base link with your everyday items.

The page and its menu link are visible to administrators, System Admins, and Tech Admins only.

Setting It Up

1. Create a new WordPress page (for example, "Admin Utilities").
2. In the page editor, assign the Admin Utilities template.
3. Publish. The Admin Utilities link appears in the account dropdown automatically — it's hidden until a page with the template exists, so you'll never ship a dead link.

How Cards Behave

• Feature disabled? If a card's feature is switched off under Settings → Core Features, the card stays visible but renders grayed out and un-clickable, with a hint pointing at Core Features — a quick visual inventory of what your portal has enabled.
• No access? Cards a user's role can't reach (per the same access rules as the old dropdown links) are hidden for that user entirely.
• Links stay current. Each card resolves its destination from your configured index pages, so re-slugging a page never breaks the grid.
• The Knowledge Base card follows your chosen display name — rename it to "Help Center" under Core Features and the card (and menu link) follow.

Customizing the Cards

Developers can add, remove, or reorder cards from a child theme with the cove_admin_utilities_items filter — each item is a plain array (title, description, icon, url, capability, enabled). See Working in the Child Theme.