Customizing Your Control Panel

To change preferences of your control panel:

1. On your Home page, click Preferences in the Tools group.
2. Specify the interface language, skin, interface customization templates.
3. If required, clear the Prevent working with Plesk until page is completely loaded checkbox and modify the creation or retention of SiteBuilder User by selecting or clearing the appropriate checkbox.
4. Click OK.

To set up a custom logo image that will be visible to your customers when they log in to Plesk control panel:

1. On your Home page, click Logo Setup.
2. Click Browse... to navigate to the desired image file that you have on your local computer.

   We recommend that you use an image that is 50 pixels in height, in GIF, JPEG or PNG format, and preferably not larger than 100 kilobytes to minimize the download time.

3. If you wish to attach a hyperlink to the logo image, type the URL into the Enter new URL for logo box.
4. Click OK to submit.

To restore the original Plesk logo image:

1. On your Home page, click Logo Setup.
2. Click Default Logo.

To add a custom hyperlink button to your Plesk control panel and specify whether your customers will see it in their control panels:

1. On your Home page, click Custom Buttons in the Tools group.
2. Click Add New Button.
3. Specify properties of the button:
   • Type the text that will show on your button in the Button label field.
   • Choose the location for your button. To place it in the right frame of your Home page, select the Client home page value from the Location drop-down box. To place it on each domain's administration screen (Home > domain name), select the Domain Administration page value. To place it in the left frame (navigation pane) of your control panel, select the Navigation pane value.
   • Specify the priority of the button. Plesk will arrange your custom buttons on the control panel in accordance with the priority you define: the lower the number – the higher is priority. Buttons are placed in the left-to-right order.
   • To use an image for a button background, type the path to its location or click Browse to browse for the desired file. It is recommended that you use a 16x16 pixels GIF or JPEG image for a button to be placed in the navigation pane, and 32x32 pixels GIF or JPEG image for buttons placed in the main frame.
   • Type the hyperlink of your choice to be attached to the button into the URL box.
   • Using the checkboxes, specify whether to include the information, such as domain name, FTP login, FTP password and other data to be transferred within the URL. These data can be used for processing by external web applications.
   • In the Context help tip contents input field, type in the help tip that will be displayed when you hover the mouse pointer over the button.
   • Select the Open URL in the Control Panel checkbox if you wish the destination URL to be opened in the control panel's right frame, otherwise leave this check box unchecked to open the URL in a separate browser window.
   • If you wish to make this button visible to the mailbox users with access to control panel, select the Visible to all sub-logins checkbox.
4. Click OK to complete creation.

To remove a hyperlink button from your Plesk control panel:

1. On your Home page, click Custom Buttons in the Tools group.
2. Select a check box corresponding to the button that you wish to remove and click Remove Selected.