Hidden Secret Options Panel within your WordPress Admin Panel
This is one of the cool little secrets that you should know about. WordPress has a Master Options Panel in the admin panel which is hidden. This page has a combination of all of your settings for your blog, and it is something that you should not mess with. Nevertheless you should still know about it because it is cool.
In your blog URL add the following:
http://yourblog.com/wp-admin/options.php
Now you should be able to see a master panel with all settings. There is not a whole lot use for this panel, but the fact that it is there and you know about it is what matters. It might come handy some days who knows.
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I’ve been trying to get a Plugin of mine to work with 2.7+, but it keeps jamming up when the update button is pressed and sending me to this Options page, so this isn’t a new sight for me, sadly.
I didn’t even know that existed! I suppose it would be useful if you were using Shopperpress or WP e-Commerce plugins for the secure shopping and payment.
Hey man, thanks for sharing this. This so cool.
Thanks for sharing, I find it very interesting that this is the first time seeing this.
I don’t know if it was the right thing to reveal this to the public… you might as well publish another article titled:
“What to do if you screwed up the WordPress Secret Admin Panel”
LMAO
Thanks.
Igor
Igor, it is better to let people know that it exist rather than have them found out and then mess it up.
That is cool. Everytime I move a WP site (for example from my testserver to client’s server) i need to change some of these values like “home”, “siteurl” and “upload_path”. Just slightly more comfy (maybe) than doing it via PhpMyAdmin. Cheers
Actually if you enable the multisite capability on wordpress you’ll have normal access to this screen.
All WP MU users are familiar with it. That’s where you manage each blog specific options.