Installation

This extension is part of the TYPO3 Core, but not installed by default.

Table of contents

Installation with Composer

Check whether you are already using the extension with:

composer show | grep adminpanel

This should either give you no result or something similar to:

typo3/cms-adminpanel       v12.4.11

If it is not installed yet, use the composer require command to install the extension:

composer require typo3/cms-adminpanel

The given version depends on the version of the TYPO3 Core you are using.

Installation without Composer

In an installation without Composer, the extension is already shipped but might not be activated yet. Activate it as follows:

In the backend, navigate to the Admin Tools > Extensions module.
Click the Activate icon for the Admin Panel extension.

Extension manager showing Admin Panel extension

Next steps

Configure the Admin Panel to be displayed to logged-in backend admins the TypoScript configuration config.admPanel = 1.

By default, the admin panel is displayed to logged-in admins only. This behaviour can be changed by setting admPanel.enable for certain backend users or groups.