Clean Up the WordPress Admin Area With PublishPress Capabilities
One thing we often hear from new WordPress users is that the interface is noisy. Especially once you have a few plugins installed, it's easy for the admin area to become overwhelmed with notifications, messages, links, alerts, and widgets.
We're on a mission to solve that with PublishPress Capabilities. We want to bring simplicity back to the WordPress admin.
PublishPress Capabilities has a new screen called “Admin Features” which help you clean up the admin area.
In this first release, “Admin Features” allows you to control access to two key features:
- Admin toolbar
- Dashboard widgets
This image below shows you where those two features are in the WordPress admin area:
This is available in both the Free and Pro versions of PublishPress Capabilities. Inside the plugin, you'll find an “Admin Features” menu link:
On this screen, you'll be able to choose which features to hide for different user roles:
- There is a role selection dropdown in the top-left corner.
- Scroll down the screen, and you can place a red X for every feature you want to hide.
Let's show you some examples of what “Admin Features” can do.
In the screenshot below, I've added a red X to the boxes that include “WordPress Logo” and “Visit Site”.
If these settings are saved, this next screenshot shows what we'll see in the toolbar. Only the “Comments” and “New” links remain.
We can also take a look at another option in “Admin Features” which allows you to hide dashboard widgets. In this screenshot below, all the dashboard widgets have red Xs.
The settings in the screenshot below will produce this on your WordPress dashboard. All your dashboard widgets are hidden.
The Best Plugin to Control Your WordPress Users
PublishPress Capabilities enables you to customize what users see in every area of WordPress from editing posts and pages to admin menus, profile pages.
