Start

Start — ProcessWire Dashboard Module

Personal quick-access dashboard for the ProcessWire admin. Replaces the default home screen with a configurable grid of links to the pages and modules you use most.

Features

• Two view modes — list and icon grid, preference saved in localStorage
• Visual link editor at /setup/start/edit/ — drag-and-drop groups and items, no page reloads
• Font Awesome 6 icons — 1887 icons with a searchable popup picker; brand icons (fab) detected automatically
• PagePicker — browse the full page tree directly from the URL field
• Example button — auto-populates with your installed Process modules and their icons from getModuleInfo()
• Widget on admin home — compact link list shown on the default ProcessWire dashboard
• Access control — start-dashboard permission, assignable to any role via Access → Roles
• Multilingual editor UI — all interface labels translated into 12 languages
• Mobile-friendly editor layout

Supported languages

The editor interface is fully translated into 20 languages: English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Czech, Finnish, Korean, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Hungarian.

RTL layout (right-to-left) is applied automatically when Hebrew or Arabic is selected.

The active language is selected under Modules → Start → Admin language.

Requirements

• ProcessWire 3.0.0 or newer
• PHP 8.0+

Installation

1. Copy the Start/ folder into /site/modules/
2. Go to Modules → Refresh
3. Install Start
4. Navigate to Setup → Start or go to /setup/start/edit/ to add your first links

The module creates a start-dashboard permission on install. Assign it to any role under Access → Roles to grant non-admin users access.

File structure

Start/
├── Start.module.php
└── fontawesome/
    ├── brands.txt          # 492 brand icon names for fab/fas detection
    ├── css/
    │   └── all.min.css     # Font Awesome 6 (solid + brands + regular)
    └── webfonts/
        ├── fa-solid-900.woff2
        ├── fa-brands-400.woff2
        ├── fa-regular-400.woff2
        └── fa-v4compatibility.woff2

Usage

Adding links

Go to Setup → Start and click Edit Links in the footer, or go directly to /setup/start/edit/.

• Add group — creates a named section (e.g. Content, Modules)
• Add link — label, URL, icon, optional ext flag for external links
• Browse (folder button) — opens PagePicker to select any page from the tree
• Icon button — opens the icon popup with search across 1887 Font Awesome icons
• Drag the ≡ handle to reorder groups or links

Example button

Click Example to auto-fill the editor with all installed Process modules. Each module gets its icon from getModuleInfo()['icon'] and its correct admin URL.

Icon names

Use standard Font Awesome 6 names with or without the fa- prefix — both github and fa-github work. Brand icons (fab) are detected automatically via brands.txt.

Permissions

Superusers always have access regardless of permissions.

Author

Maxim Semenov — maxim@smnv.org
https://github.com/mxmsmnv/Start

License

MIT