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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Plugin Best Practices Common WordPress Plugins

Posted by Raqibul Hayder
Raqibul Hayder
2,386 Points

How to make the Wordpress admin page easy for clients to use?

I am building a website for a client and was wondering if there is a way to simplify the Wordpress admin page so that it is easy for the client to you?

Thank you :-)

5 Answers

Zac Gordon
STAFF
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Check out the course on how to customize the admin area!!!!

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Raqibul,

You could restrict the navigation options using a custom user role plugin. This would mean you could set the admin to only show specific areas such as posts and pages leaving the settings, etc for the administrator role.

Hope that helps.

-Rich

Raqibul Hayder
Raqibul Hayder
2,386 Points
Raqibul Hayder
Raqibul Hayder
2,386 Points

Thanks a ton for helping out!!

Can you please give more details on how to go on about doing that? Any readings or videos I can watch to get it done?

Appreciate it.

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Raqibul,

The following courses are excellent for that information:

Have a look through these and hopefully that should help.

Thanks

-Rich