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How To Customize Your WordPress Dashboard
If you need help using WordPress, you may want to see this tutorial about using your administration area:
If your site was built using the WP CMS platform, and you are logging in and out of your admin area on a regular basis, it’s useful to know how to customize the WordPress Dashboard.
In this tutorial, you will learn a number of quick and easy ways to customize the WordPress admin area without touching a single line of web code.
How To Declutter Your Dashboard
As your site gets bigger, the information in your admin can start looking very busy …
Fortunately, you can customize the WordPress dashboard by hiding, minimizing and reorganizing the layout of your information elements.
How To Hide Information Elements
The Screen Options feature is found in the top-right corner of your WP dashboard screen, in the header area …
In the main Dashboard, click on the Screen Options tab to configure options such as which panels of your Dashboard work area you want to hide or display …
By hiding/displaying, you can organize your Dashboard, and display only information that is absolutely useful …
Minimizing WP Dashboard Elements
You can also minimize content screens in your dashboard by clicking on the icons in the corner of a panel’s title bar …
This helps you keep your work area uncluttered. You can expand/collapse as much information in your dashboard as you want …
How To Reorganize Information Panels
You can also rearrange the layout of your site’s dashboard using “drag and drop” …
Many panels inside your WP dashboard can also be further configured when hovered over with your mouse. For example, here is a content area with no mouse hovering …
Hovering over the panel’s title bar, however, displays the ability to further configure this panel …
As well as rearranging scheme will take effect immediately …
To learn more about customizing your WordPress admin colors, see the tutorial below:
Hopefully, now you know a few simple ways to customize your control panel without touching web code or adding additional plugins. All it takes is a few clicks of your mouse button.
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"If you're new to WordPress, this can stand on its own as a training course and will stay with you as you progress from beginner to advanced and even guru status." - Bruce (Columbus, Ohio)
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