How To Customize Your WordPress Dashboard

If you not familiar with the WordPress Dashboard, you may want to see this tutorial on how to navigate your site’s administration area:

• Your WP Admin Area Explained

Is your website powered by WordPress? If so, and you are logging in and out of your admin area regularly, then it pays to know how to customize your WordPress Dashboard.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you a number of quick and easy ways to customize the WordPress control panel without editing any code.

How To Declutter Your Dashboard Section

As your site grows, your dashboard area can start to look really busy …

Fortunately, you can “tidy up” your WordPress dashboard by hiding, minimizing and reorganizing your admin panels.

Hiding WP Dashboard Panels

The Screen Options tab is found in the top-right corner of your WordPress admin screen, in the header section …

In the main Dashboard, clicking on the Screen Options tab lets you configure options like which panels of your Dashboard work area you want to hide/display …

By choosing to keep some elements hidden, you can organize your admin dashboard, and display only necessary information …

How To Minimize Dashboard Elements

You can also minimize content screens inside your admin area by clicking on the little inverted triangle in the corner of a panel’s title bar …

This will help keep your work space uncluttered. You can display/hide as much of the information inside your dashboard section as you like …

Rearranging WordPress Dashboard Content Blocks

You can also rearrange the layout of your site’s dashboard using “drag and drop” …

Some information panels inside your dashboard let you configure additional display settings and may not be obvious at first glance …

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

As well as reorganizing 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, this tutorial has shown you some simple ways to customize your WordPress Dashboard without messing with code or adding additional plugins. All it takes is a few clicks of your mouse button.

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