Wordpress dashboard customization: Why it is so important?

Most of you who have used WordPress are well versed with its dashboard. Serenetic blue themed dashboard with a black sidebar on the right.

The sidebar has all the options to configure a WordPress website with extended menus and minimizing button which folds vertically whole sidebar.

WordPress dashboard customization is a very popular topic today. Not out of fashion, but out of functionality, many WordPress developers and even newbies have chosen to customize.

Why customize dashboard?

Let’s look at the reason of why you should customize your WordPress dashboard.

Client Requirement

Yes, clients love it too. Very few of the clients request a customized dashboard but many developers prefer to deliver a site with a customized dashboard. It helps their customers to operate and update the site well.

WordPress has different options to configure modules and update content like posts, images, videos etc.

A developer knows its way but clients don’t. They often mistake or get tired while performing actions. So it is better to make it simple for clients to handle.

User Experience

It improves the user experience for users and admins. By selecting important elements and hiding the rest, users/admins will have no distraction while working on the dashboard. A positive user experience will never make them feel restless or exhausted.

A positive user experience directly affects efficiency and productivity.

Customize it for different user roles

By default WordPress has following user roles:

1. Administrator

2. Editor

3. Author

4. Contributor

5. Subscriber

Each user role has some limitations, Administrator being the most powerful user; other users are specifically for utilizing certain features of the site. For example, Contributor and Author seem similar but they have a difference.

A contributor is someone who can write and manage their posts but cannot publish them but an author is someone who can manage as well as publish their posts.

Customizing user roles for a site is required for websites which is managed under various departments.

No one will like their marketing team accessing their core WordPress files even in emergency.

These are the reasons why customizing WordPress dashboard is important. For any queries or doubts, you can comment below.

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