AGCA – Custom Dashboard & Login Page

63 Quality Score

Active Installs

19/30

At 20,000 active installs it sits well below category leaders like LoginPress at 200,000, but the popularity score is boosted by the rating-to-install ratio being unusually strong.

Update Freshness

11/25

The plugin was updated on 30 May 2025 and is tested against WordPress 6.8.5, which is solid, though the lack of a stated minimum PHP version and no public changelog depth make it harder to fully gauge upkeep velocity.

User Rating

14/15

A 90 out of 100 across 64 ratings is excellent and suggests the users who do install it tend to be satisfied with what they get.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads and zero resolutions is technically a 100 percent resolution rate, but the absence of any forum activity means there is no observable community helping each other when things break.

WP Compatibility

11/15

Compatibility scores reasonably well given the recent WordPress 6.8.5 test stamp, but the null PHP requirement and very low WordPress 3.0 minimum suggest it has not been modernised for current PHP 8.x environments in its metadata.

Scores higher than 12% of indexed plugins

About

CHANGE: admin menu, login page, admin bar, dashboard widgets, custom colors, custom CSS & JS, logo & images

Active Installs 20k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.5/5

Last Updated 2025-05-30 8:22am GMT

Requires WordPress 3.0+

Tested Up To 6.8.8

Security History

5 known vulnerabilities, all patched

5 Medium

Most recent: April 24, 2024

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Absolutely Glamorous Custom Admin <= 7.2.3 - Authenticated (Admin+) Server-Side Request Forgery Medium

April 24, 2024 Patched in ["7.2.4"] CVE-2024-33627

AGCA – Custom Dashboard & Login Page <= 7.2.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

April 4, 2024 Patched in ["7.2.2"] CVE-2024-2907

Custom Dashboard & Login Page < 6.9.5 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

December 30, 2021 Patched in ["7.0"] CVE-2021-24944

Absolutely Glamorous Custom Admin <= 6.8 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

September 23, 2021 Patched in ["6.9"] CVE-2021-36823

Custom Dashboard & Login Page – AGCA <= 6.5.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Medium

September 8, 2020 Patched in ["6.5.5"]

What It Does

AGCA, or Custom Dashboard and Login Page, lets administrators rebrand the WordPress backend by changing the login screen, admin menu labels, admin bar, dashboard widgets, colours, and CSS or JavaScript. It also supports logo and image swaps, effectively turning a stock wp-admin into a white-labelled control panel without editing theme files.

Who It's For

This plugin fits agencies, freelancers, and hosting providers who hand off sites to non-technical clients and need the wp-admin to feel like a product rather than vanilla WordPress. It also suits franchises, intranet operators, and SaaS builds on WordPress where consistent branding across multiple logins matters.

Who Should Skip It

Skip it if you only need a quick login-page logo swap, since lighter tools such as LoginPress handle that in a guided UI with far larger install bases. Developers comfortable editing a child theme or mu-plugin will find limited value in another settings layer.

The Bottom Line

AGCA delivers a broad white-label toolkit at a competitive 66 out of 100 quality score, and its 90 rating from users is its strongest selling point. The lack of visible support activity and missing PHP version metadata are real concerns for production deployments on modern hosts. It is a reasonable pick for agencies already comfortable with the plugin, but most buyers will get better long-term safety from LoginPress or Ultimate Dashboard.

Related Plugins

LoginPress 86/100

Pick LoginPress when you want a polished, live-customizer interface for the login page alone and a much larger user community behind it.

Custom Login Page Customizer 84/100

Choose Custom Login Page Customizer if your goal is a focused login redesign using the native WordPress Customizer with 90,000 installs for stability.

Ultimate Dashboard 83/100

Go with Ultimate Dashboard when the priority is replacing the dashboard widgets screen rather than rebranding menus or login, with 60,000 installs and a higher overall score.

Admin Custom Login 81/100

Pick Admin Custom Login for a lightweight, install-base-matched alternative aimed at simple login tweaks.

White Label 80/100

Choose White Label when you want a similar broad rebrand toolkit with a slightly cleaner support footprint and matching 10,000-install footprint.