# 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 configuration 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 const languageNativeNames = {
  en: 'English',
  fr: 'Français',
};

export default trads;

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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.

To change the login page's logo, add your custom image at ./admin/src/assets/images/logo_strapi.png.

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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';

# Changing the host and port

By default, the front-development server runs on localhost:8000. However, you can change this setting by updating the following configuration: