Navigate your WordPress dashboard by searching with a few keystrokes. Press shift shift, then a few letters of the menu item you want.
As of April 2026, Dashboard Navigator is a WordPress search plugin with 20 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 465 times in total. Requires WordPress 4.3+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Top alternative: String locator.
In modern operating systems you can press a Start or Spotlight key, type a few letters of the operation you need, and choose it. There’s no need to waste time clicking around in the menus looking for your command. This plugin gives you the same capability for WordPress’s dashboard and its features.
The plugin places a search box at the top of the menu at the top left of WordPress’s dashboard. (That menu is at the top right if you use a right-to-left language such as Rohingya or Arabic.) Click in that menu and type a few letters. You’ll see a drop-down list of matching commands. Use arrow keys to select the command you want, and press Enter or Tab.
You can press Shift twice rapidly instead of clicking in the search box. So, for example, to go to your orders in your…
| WordPress | 4.3+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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