When you log in to a WordPress site, you will see boxes full of information. These are called “Dashboard Widgets”.
Typical dashboard widgets include “Welcome to WordPress!”, “Quick Draft” and “At a Glance”. Additionally, when you add plugins, they will also add extra dashboard widgets.
We received an interesting question this week from a PublishPress user. One of our customers wanted to remove elements from the “Screen Options” dropdown panel in WordPress. The “Screen Options” tab is available in most areas of the WordPress admin area. This image below shows an example from the “Pages” screen.
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…
When you log in to a WordPress site, you will see boxes full of information. These are called “Dashboard Widgets”. You will probably see a “Welcome to WordPress!” widget with lots of useful links. There’s also a “WordPress Events and News” widget with official updates. There’s an “At a Glance” widget so you can quickly…
WordPress sites display an admin toolbar for all logged-in users. This is visible on the frontend of your site and also in the WordPress admin area. This toolbar contains shortcuts to key features in WordPress. A user in the Subscriber role will only see a few features. A user in the Administrator role may see…
A WordPress website always starts by looking very clean. But after you choose a theme and install a lot of plugins, the user interface quickly becomes very crowded. In other guides, we’ve shown you how to hide WordPress admin menus, hide the admin toolbar, and hide dashboard widgets. In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to…
PublishPress provides 3 dashboard widgets: Unpublished Content, Notepad, and Posts I’m following. These widgets appear on the main Dashboard screen in your WordPress admin area. If you don’t need these widgets, follow our guide to disabling dashboard widgets in WordPress. Unpublished Content The Unpublished Content widget gives an overview of the content that is in…