strapi/docs/v3.x/admin-panel/customization.md

Customization

The administration panel can be customized according to your needs, so you can make it reflect your identity.

::: warning To apply your changes you need to rebuild your admin panel :::

Change access URL

By default, the administration panel is exposed via http://localhost:1337/admin. However, for security reasons, you can easily update this path. For more advanced settings please see the server config documentation.

Path — ./config/server.js.

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  host: env('HOST', '0.0.0.0'),
  port: env.int('PORT', 1337),
  admin: {
    url: '/dashboard',
  },
});

The panel will be available through http://localhost:1337/dashboard with the configurations above.

Development mode

To enable the front-end development mode you need to start your application using the --watch-admin flag.

cd my-app
strapi develop --watch-admin

With this option you can do the following:

Customize the strapi-admin package

All files added in my-app/admin/src/ will either be replaced or added

Example: Changing the available locales of your application

# Create both the admin and admin/src/translations folders
cd my-app && mkdir -p admin/src/translations
# Change the available locales of the administration panel
touch admin/src/i18n.js
# Change the import and exports of the translations files
touch admin/src/translations/index.js

Path -- my-app/admin/src/translations/index.js

import en from './en.json';
import fr from './fr.json';

const trads = {
  en,
  fr,
};

export default trads;

::: tip With this modification only English and French will be available in your admin :::

Customize a plugin

Similarly to the back-end override system any file added in my-app/extensions/<plugin-name>/admin/ will be copied and used instead of the original one (use with care).

Example: Changing the current WYSIWYG

cd my-app/extensions
# Create the content manager folder
mkdir content-manager && cd content-manager
# Create the admin folder
mkdir -p admin/src
# Create the components folder and the WysiwygWithErrors one
cd admin/src && mkdir -p components/WysiwygWithErrors
# Create the index.js so the original file is overridden
touch components/WysiwygWithErrors/index.js

Path -- my-app/extensions/content-manager/admin/src/components/WysiwygWithErrors/index.js

import React from 'react';
import MyNewWYSIWYG from 'my-awesome-lib';

// This is a dummy example
const WysiwygWithErrors = (props) => <MyNewWYSIWYG {...props} />;

export default WysiwygWithErrors;

Styles

The AdminUI package source can be easily found in ./node_modules/strapi-admin/src/.

For example, to change the top-left displayed admin panel's color, copy the ./node_modules/strapi-admin/admin/src/components/LeftMenuHeader folder to ./admin/src/components/LeftMenuHeader and change the styles inside ./admin/src/components/LeftMenuHeader/Wrapper.js.

Thus, you are replacing the files that would normally be in node_modules/strapi-admin/admin/src and directing them to admin/src/some/file/path.

To apply your changes you need to rebuild your admin panel

npm run build

Logo

To change the top-left displayed admin panel's logo, add your custom image at ./admin/src/assets/images/logo-strapi.png.

::: tip make sure the size of your image is the same as the existing one (434px x 120px). :::

Tutorial videos

To disable the information box containing the tutorial videos, create a file at ./admin/src/config.js

Add the following configuration:

export const LOGIN_LOGO = null;
export const SHOW_TUTORIALS = false;
export const SETTINGS_BASE_URL = '/settings';

Build

To build the administration, run the following command from the root directory of your project.

:::: tabs

::: tab yarn

yarn build

:::

::: tab npm

npm run build

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::: tab strapi

strapi build

:::

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This will replace the folder's content located at ./build. Visit http://localhost:1337/admin to make sure your updates have been taken into account.