In this video, we’re going take a look at how to customize your WordPress dashboard. And the content that you see here is sorted into different modules which you can actually move about simply by clicking and dragging the content module that you see here, and placing it anywhere you like.
And you can do the same for your “Post” tabs as well when you are writing a new post, so let’s look at that.
So this is your “Add New Post” screen. And this is probably the screen that you’ll use most often for your blog whenever you’re writing a new post.
And as you can see, this screen is also made of of several modules. And the first thing you should know is that you can easily expand or collapse any of these modules simply by putting your mouse over the header section here, and you should see an arrow, and you click this arrow and it will expand or collapse the individual modules here.
Now you may not really need to use every single function in your WordPress “Add New Post” screen. So what you may want to do is to rearrange the modules (also called modules) according to the ones that you use most often.
And you can also do this for the “Sidebar” section of your WordPress “Add New Post” screen.
So for example, let’s say, I’m use tags lot (and I’ll cover tags in greater detail in a future Wordpress Tutorial, but for now let’s say that tags are very important to me.
So I can actually move the “Tags” section up, and you’ll see that the Publish section has dropped down.
And I’ll just release it here; now my Tags module will appear on top, whenever I access this screen until I decide to change it.
And of course, I can also collapse, or expand each individual section to save space and to make things a little bit neater. The whole idea is to make Wordpress easier and faster for you to use. And that’s how easy it is to customize your dashboard!
