Customising Your WordPress Dashboard Section
Is your website or blog built with WordPress? If so, and you are logging in and out of your admin area on a regular basis, you may want to customise the Dashboard.
If you are new to WordPress, you may want to see this step-by-step tutorial on how to navigate your site’s administration area: How To Use Your WP Control Page
Is your site built with WordPress? If so, and you have to log in and out of your admin area regularly, you may want to customise the Dashboard.
In this tutorial, you will learn a number of quick and easy ways to customise the back end without editing any web code.
De cluttering The Dashboard
As your site gets bigger, the information in your dashboard can start looking very busy …
Fortunately, you can “tidy up” your WP dashboard by hiding, minimising and rearranging the layout of your panels.
Hiding WP Dashboard Elements
The Screen Options feature is found in the top-right corner of your WordPress dashboard screen, in the header area …
In the main Dashboard, clicking on the Screen Options tab allows you to configure options like which panels of your screen you want to view or hide.
By ticking or un ticking boxes, you can organise your admin dashboard, and access only useful information …
Minimising Information Elements
You can minimise the information blocks inside your dashboard area by clicking on the symbol in the corner of a panel’s title bar …
This helps you keep your working space uncluttered. You can expand/collapse as much of the information inside your dashboard as you like …
Rearranging Information Elements
You can also rearrange the content blocks inside your WordPress 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 additional configuration options …
As well as being able to reorganize content inside your dashboard, you can also change the colour scheme of your admin area directly from within your WordPress settings, or by using plugins …
To change the colour scheme of your WordPress dashboard, click on the “Howdy, Your UserName” tab and choose Edit My Profile…
You can also get to this screen by clicking on Your Profile in the admin menu …
Remember to click the Update Profile button at the bottom of your screen to update your settings …
Your new admin section colour scheme will take effect immediately …
Hopefully, this tutorial has shown you a number of easy ways to customize your WordPress Dashboard without editing web code or adding additional plugins. All it takes is a few clicks of the mouse.
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