Hidden Secret Options Panel within your WordPress Admin Panel

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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 shows a combination of all 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

All options page in WordPress admin area

This page contains all the options for your WordPress site. Some of these options can be edited using the Settings menu in the admin bar. But most of these options are not supposed to be edited or changed by users.

Important: We do not recommend you to use this hidden page to make any changes to your WordPress site.

However, you can use this page to look for options stored in your WordPress database, settings stored by plugins, and so on. Knowing that this panel is there and you can look at it may come in handy some day.

We hope this article helped you discover the hidden secret options panel in your WordPress site. You may also want to see our guide on how to hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin with Adminimize

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