Instant navigation in wp-admin
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Enable SPA for Admin Dashboard does for wp-admin what AjaxPress does for your site: dashboard screens change without a full reload, and settings save in place. It only affects the dashboard. Visitors see no difference.
It’s under Settings → AjaxPress → Basic, needs AjaxPress Pro, and is off by default. It’s marked Beta: it works with WordPress’s own screens, but some plugins’ screens may not cope with it.
WordPress 7.0 and newer: not needed
WordPress 7.0 navigates the dashboard by itself. Running AjaxPress’s dashboard navigation on top of it would mean two navigators on the same screen, and they can conflict. So on WordPress 7.0 and newer the setting isn’t shown, and it stays off even if it was on before you updated.
On older versions, it’s the only way to get instant dashboard page loads.
Turn it on
Flip Enable SPA for Admin Dashboard. It saves straight away, and the settings screen reloads so the change takes effect.
Screens that always load normally
Some dashboard screens need a real page load, so AjaxPress leaves them alone:
- Updates: WordPress, plugin and theme updates
- Activating and deactivating plugins, and activating themes
- Installing plugins and themes
- The plugin and theme file editors
- Export and Import
- Site Health
- The Customizer
- Application password approval
- Anything that submits to
options.phporadmin-post.php - Page builder editors: Elementor, Divi, Bricks and the others always open as normal pages
Moving between the dashboard and your site’s front end is always a normal page load too, so a front-end player never follows you into wp-admin.
If something breaks
Turn it off first. It’s the quickest test, and it only affects the dashboard.
| Symptom | What to do |
|---|---|
| A page builder’s editor won’t load | Turn it off. Bricks and Divi 5 are the usual cases |
| A plugin’s settings page looks broken or won’t save | Turn it off, and tell us which plugin |
| The screen flashes or navigates twice (WordPress 7.0+) | Turn it off. WordPress already does this |
When you report a problem, include your WordPress version and the plugin whose screen misbehaved. See Report a problem.