Let's review CommandUI
This is for sure one of my favorite plugins of 2024 and beyond. CommandUI it's a Game Changer!
If you like the concept of “keyboard shortcuts” and you're a fan of tricks to speed up the productivity flow, well … CommandUI it's for you!
Think of it as a Mac OS finder for WordPress. Boom 🤯. Right?
This plugin is all about using your keyboard to reach any action and location of the WP dashboard and beyond:
- Install or delete a plugin? Use CommandUI
- Search and find for a user you need to update or delete? Use CommandUI
- Quickly edit a post or a page or a product? Use CommandUI
- Change some settings in any plugin? Use CommandUI
You get the idea… it is sooo powerful! 🔥
It is addictive!
The only thing is you will have to switch from a click based mentality to a more fast and smart keyboard based workflow, but once you start making the sjhift, I'll never get back and you'll need CommandUI basically on every WordPress website you create or manage.
How to launch CommandUI
The shortcut to action the command bar is CMD + K or CTRL + K and you can use it everywhere in WordPress unless you've selected a block in the block editor or in a text widget of a page builder, in that case CMD + K will be the basic shortcut to add a link.
Pricing
There is no free version available on WordPress.org, but you can buy a CommandUI pro license starting at a very affordable price:
- 5 websites license (Site Owner) 49$/year (instead of 79$/year)
- 50 websites license (Freelancer) 99$/year (instead of 149$/year)
- 150 websites license (Agency) 199$/year (instead of 249$/year)
At the moment there is still a launch deal to get a lifetime discount on the licenses annual subscriptions.
Improvement
It is an early version, already impressive but it can be improved! Here's what I noticed using the plugin:
- When we try to use up and down arrows inside the command bar the whole page scrolls in the background and the selection of the bar actions is difficult and glitchy.
- It will be interesting to add a custom integration with Elementor to replace the need of the Elementor finder.
