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How To Customize Your WordPress Dashboard
If you not familiar with the WordPress backend section, you may want to see this tutorial about using your site’s admin area:
Is your website or blog powered by WordPress? If so, and you have to log in and out of your admin area on a regular basis, then it pays to know how to customize the WordPress Dashboard.
In this tutorial, you will learn a number of easy ways to customize the WordPress admin area without modifying any web code.
How To Declutter The Admin Area
As you begin to add more functionality to your site, your admin area can start looking very cluttered …
Fortunately, you can customize your admin area by hiding, minimizing and rearranging your information elements.
How To Hide WordPress Dashboard Panels
The Screen Options feature is located in the top-right corner of your WP admin screen, in the header area …
In the main Dashboard, clicking on the Screen Options tab lets you specify options like which panels of your Dashboard screen you want to hide or display …
By ticking or unticking boxes, you can create an uncluttered-looking admin dashboard, and access only information that is absolutely necessary …
Minimizing Information Elements
You can minimize information screens in your admin area by clicking on the icons in the corner of a panel’s title bar …
This helps you keep your work space uncluttered. You can expand/collapse as much of the information in your dashboard as you like …
Reorganizing WP Dashboard Elements
You can also reconfigure the layout of your admin dashboard simply by dragging and dropping these around …
Some information panels let you configure additional display settings that may not be obvious at first glance …
Hovering over the panel’s title bar, however, displays the ability to further configure this information …
As well as being able to rearrange content inside your dashboard, you can also change the color scheme of your admin sections directly from within your WordPress settings, or by using plugins …
To change the color scheme of your WordPress dashboard, click on the “Howdy, User” tab at the very top right hand corner of your administration screen toolbar and choose Edit My Profile…
You can also reach this screen by clicking on Your Profile in the menu …
Don’t forget to click the Update Profile button before leaving to save your changes …
Your new dashboard colour scheme will take effect immediately …
To learn more about customizing your WordPress admin colors, see the tutorial below:
Hopefully, this tutorial has shown you some quick and easy ways to customize the control panel without editing code or adding extra plugins. All it takes is just a few clicks of your mouse button.
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