Stop rebuilding Firebase admin panels — here’s a simpler approach

jrosalesro — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:17:59 +0000

Every time I start a new project with Firebase, I run into the same problem.

At some point, I need to manage data properly — not just read it, but edit, inspect, and organize it in a practical way.

And every time, I end up doing the same thing:
👉 building a custom admin panel from scratch.

🔁 The recurring problem

Firebase is amazing to get started quickly.

But once your project grows, the Firebase Console starts to feel limited:

So what happens?

👉 You build your own internal tool.
👉 Again.
👉 And again.

Because there’s a gap between:

And most of the time, we just accept that building an admin panel is part of the process.

Instead of rebuilding the same tool every time, I started thinking:

👉 What if we could reuse something that already exists?

Something simple, familiar, and flexible enough to act as a backoffice.

This led me to experiment with using WordPress as a lightweight admin layer for Firebase.

The idea is simple:

With this approach, you can:

To test this idea, I built a small plugin:
BackOffice Manager for Firebase

Setup takes just a few minutes — no need to build a custom admin panel from scratch.

It allows you to connect WordPress with Firestore and manage your data directly from the dashboard.

It’s still early, but it already solves the main pain point I kept running into.

I’m trying to understand if this is a real problem for others or just something I experienced.

So I’d love to hear from you:

You can find the plugin in the WordPress plugin repository by searching:

If you’re working with Firebase and feel this pain, I’d really appreciate your feedback.