Start - Personal quick-access dashboard with visual link editor

[maximus]

Hey everyone!

I'd like to share Start - a module that replaces the default ProcessWire admin home screen with a configurable personal dashboard.

The problem it solves

As your ProcessWire install grows, the Setup menu gets long - on smaller screens it overflows and you end up scrolling just to reach the tools you use every day. Start is the fix: think of it as the Windows Start button for your PW admin. Pin exactly what you need - modules, pages, whatever - and get to it in one click from the home screen.

The result

Features

• Two view modes - list and icon grid, preference saved per-browser
• Visual drag-and-drop editor at /setup/start/edit/ - reorder groups and links without page reloads
• Font Awesome 6 icons - 1887 icons with a searchable popup picker
• PagePicker - browse the full page tree directly from the URL field
• Example button - auto-populates with your installed Process modules and their FA icons
• Widget on the default admin home page
• Access control via start-dashboard permission
• Fully translated editor UI — 20 languages including RTL support for Hebrew and Arabic

Supported languages

English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Czech, Finnish, Korean, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Hungarian.

Installation

Install like any other module — upload or place in /site/modules/, then install via Modules → Refresh. A Start item will appear under Setup in the admin menu.

Make Start your admin home screen (optional)

By default Start lives under Setup. To make it open whenever you click the admin logo or navigate to /admin/:

1. Go to Pages in the admin menu
2. Find the Admin page and click Edit
3. In the Process field, select Start from the dropdown
4. Save

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/mxmsmnv/Start

[elabx]

Do you happen to know https://daun.github.io/processwire-dashboard/#/ ??

I mean your module looks fantastic! But I feel it's something what could have been added to ProcessWire Dashboard?