A few days ago, i have been asked to create a custom WordPress dashboard to replace the orginial one. It wasn’t just displaying or hiding already custom metaboxes, it was replacing the whole dashboard. This was the first time…
When you’re building a website for your client, sometimes there are parts of the WordPress admin that you don’t need them to be able to access. In fact, if they don’t need to access them, why not get them out of the way and simplify the admin…
In a recent article by Claudio Simeone, he demonstrated how you could add extra columns to your post, or custom post type, admin screens (or remove existing ones). In this quick tip I build on that by showing you how to make your newly created columns sortable…
The backend of WordPress is one of the better ones out there. However, depending on your needs, the menu can be a little crowded with fluff that you just don’t want or need there. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to tame your admin…
In this tutorial we will see how to add a new column to the WordPress Posts management screen and in this column we will show the Featured Image of each Post. This new column will also be added in the management screen of any active Custom Post Type…
The admin area is the heart of any WordPress-powered website. It’s where everything is controlled and where admin, editors, authors and contributors publish content to posts…
I am always interested to find new ways to mess around with the back end of WordPress. Take the Posts screen, for example. Here is a screenshot from my blog. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could bulk out this…
You may wish to customise the WordPress admin dashboard for many reasons such as for clients to match their web site, if you are providing WordPress as a service (SAAS), to hide the fact the site is…
This tip comes to your courtesy of our friends over at WP-Snippets.com. When it comes to WordPress post editing, sometimes the fewer options for tinkering with, the better. There are users who can get confused …
If you’re a theme developer it is handy to keep a record of various pieces of code you can add to your theme’s functions.php file so you can reuse them. In this post …
I regularly take notes for the websites I run. Over the last few years I have used the excellent…
As a consultant, developer, or designer, sometimes you just get hired to do the project and leave. Often in these circumstances, many developers customize the WordPress admin area and remove all the main settings options, so the client cannot break the site. However, it is really frustrating when another developer comes in just to find out that he has to take out…
Have you ever worked with a client who has a hard time understanding technology? Well, as a consultant, designer, or developer, it is your job to make things easier for them. WordPress admin panel comes with a lot of options in the menu, but you can get rid of them fairly easily if necessary. With one of our clients, we needed to get rid of few menu items, so it is easier for her to understand things. In this article…
We will soon be posting a guide to customising the WordPress admin for your clients, in the meantime this videocast by Troy Dean will give you ton of valuable information on this topic. If you enjoyed this post, make sure to subscribe to WP…