CMS Backend Opener: A Firefox Extension to Quickly Locate the Login Page to Popular CMS Backends
If you use Firefox and manage multiple websites that use different Content Management Systems and have a hard time keeping track of the various URLs to their backends, consider using the CMS Backend Opener Firefox extension created by Andy R.
Once installed, you can use either a keyboard shortcut (Alt + Y) or press a button within the browser and it will automatically open the login page for the detected CMS in a new window.
The extension uses the CMS meta-tag: Generator to detect which CMS is being used. The following CMS’ are supported:
- Typo3
- Typo3 Neos
- Joomla
- WordPress
- Django
- Shopware (beta)
- Magento (beta)
- Drupal
- Contao
- Weblication
- WebsiteBaker
- CMSQLite
- Oxid
Although the extension has not been updated in two years, I tested it on Firefox 67.0.4 on my MacBook Pro and it worked without any issues. I typically use a bookmark to browse to WP-Admin but this is more convenient, especially on WordPress.com.
I’ve also learned that if you have Pretty Permalinks enabled in WordPress, you can type /login or /admin after your domain and it will typically load the login page.
