How To Customize Your WordPress Dashboard

If you not familiar with the WordPress admin section, go here for a detailed tutorial about your admin area:

• Understanding The WordPress Dashboard

If your website or blog was built using the WP CMS platform, and you have to log in and out of your admin area regularly, you may want to customize your WordPress Dashboard.

In this tutorial, you will learn a number of quick and easy things you can do to customize the WordPress backend without touching any code.

How To Declutter The Dashboard

As your site grows, your admin area can start to get really cluttered …

Fortunately, you can customize the admin area by hiding, minimizing and rearranging your Dashboard panels.

How To Hide WordPress Dashboard Panels

The Screen Options feature is located in the top-right corner of your WP administration screen, in the header area …

In the main Dashboard, clicking on the Screen Options tab allows you to specify options such as which panels of your Dashboard screen you want to hide/display …

By choosing to keep some elements hidden, you can organize your Dashboard, and view only necessary information …

How To Minimize Dashboard Elements

You can also minimize the information blocks in your admin area by clicking on the symbol in the corner of a panel’s title bar …

This helps you keep your work space uncluttered. You can expand/collapse as much information inside your dashboard section as you like …

Reorganizing Information Panels

You can also reconfigure the layout of your admin dashboard using “drag and drop” …

Many panels inside your admin area can also be further configured when hovered over with your mouse. For example, here is a panel with no mouse hovering …

Hovering over the panel’s title bar, however, displays the ability to further configure this content …

As well as rearranging scheme will take effect immediately …

To learn more about customizing your WordPress admin colors, see the tutorial below:

• How To Customize Your WordPress Dashboard Color Scheme

Hopefully, now you know how to customize your WordPress Dashboard without messing with web code or adding any new plugins. All it takes is a few clicks of the mouse.

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