Ultimate Guide to Customising the WordPress Dashboard

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Let's build a more powerful, better-looking, and functionally improved WordPress Dashboard together.
I'm going to take 3 plugins and take the WordPress Dashboard from drab to fab and add a lot of useful features to the dashboard, media manager, style, and more.
If you're fed up with looking at an uninspiring WordPress Dashboard or you want to provide your clients with a nicer, branded experience, this tutorial is the perfect starting point.
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  • @StringerBell
    @StringerBell2 жыл бұрын

    One advice. It's a good idea to show the before and end result in the beginning, that way your retention rates will be much higher.

  • @Elsteck

    @Elsteck

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes usually a good practice. In this case there is no end result and the before is well known 😏

  • @itevensystems8860

    @itevensystems8860

    2 жыл бұрын

    Clever idea. You are correct I guess. Wander if any studies been done in this regard to back up your claim. Can you forward any please?

  • @AntGeezer

    @AntGeezer

    2 жыл бұрын

    Spot on. Trying to build this up in your head as he goes along is not the best user experience!

  • @JordanStambaugh1

    @JordanStambaugh1

    4 ай бұрын

    But then people would just leave if it wasn’t what they were looking for

  • @TheDocPixel
    @TheDocPixel2 жыл бұрын

    I second the assessment about Thomas Ehrig, the dev behind Happy Files and Bricks. I would go so far as to name him one of the very best modern devs for Wordpress out there. He and his team are building some of the very best "no-bloat" tools and plugins on the market using modern frameworks and practises. Plus he's a nice guy :)

  • @comleonmoto
    @comleonmoto2 жыл бұрын

    And last but not least, HappyFiles and Ultimate Dashboard support (the main flaw of numerous plugins) is #1.😎

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    I've not needed to use support for them, but that is great to hear. :)

  • @andrewdowniephd
    @andrewdowniephd2 жыл бұрын

    Very nice set of tools. Many thanks for another great tutorial.

  • @WaleedZubair
    @WaleedZubair2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much sir your videos are always very informative. ❤❤❤

  • @BestMLMDXN
    @BestMLMDXN2 жыл бұрын

    Dear Sir, i really enjoyed your video. It will help me to take my sites to next level. Hope to see more videos.. With care, As we celebrate Holi ( Festival of colours ) here in India, may yours and yours family lives be filled with colours of bliss, prosperity and health. Yours student, Vivek Kumar ( Dehri On Sone, Bihar, India )

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    And yours too Vivek :) Have a wonderful holiday.

  • @sportyguy2009
    @sportyguy20092 жыл бұрын

    Paul, I enjoy most of your videos and find them very educational. I have been a big fan and user of Happy Files for a while now. But, I learned something unintended that I found incredibly useful which, up until now, I had used another plugin for. While you were demonstrating Happy Files, I noticed in settings the ability for infinite scrolling had been added. Woohoo! I was able to turn that on and delete the "Media Library Enable Infinite Scrolling" plugin. Can't wait until Happy Files adds the feature for replacing images so I can delete the Enable Media Replace plugin too. Anyway, thanks for your great videos and, in this case, for the unintentional tip. ;-)

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm all for unintentional added value.. lol

  • @RichardWadeUK
    @RichardWadeUK2 жыл бұрын

    Great overview mate (as always!). I tend not to be that bothered with a custom back-end, BUT I have been blown away by your demo and can see the clear benefits of taking such steps. I'm just a tad torn by the high annual cost of the Ultimate Dashboard plugin and would consider it on a TLD.

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Cheers buddy. I know what you mean. I tend to just ignore the back-end for my own uses, but after seeing a recent video by Kyle (The Admin Bar), we got chatting about the dasboard and he reminded me about UDP which I'd used in the past, so went back for another look. Hence this video. There are some great free options out there that may do all or most of what you want. Take a look at White Label CMS from Troy Dean's company - wordpress.org/plugins/white-label-cms/ I've used that on client sites in the past and it has a lot of great features, but includes ads, etc., so not my preference for a clean setup.

  • @amineunshakable1295
    @amineunshakable12952 жыл бұрын

    I can easily see this KZread channel will cross 250k subscribers by the end of the year if not more than that

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't that be nice :)

  • @amineunshakable1295

    @amineunshakable1295

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@WPTuts this year it’s the year this channel will raise to the top

  • @d.k.rathod2540
    @d.k.rathod254010 ай бұрын

    awesome video ..❤ this video is resolved my mind doubt thnk you so much sir .. for wonderful video

  • @visualmodo
    @visualmodo2 жыл бұрын

    Very good content!

  • @michaelfoerster3364
    @michaelfoerster33642 жыл бұрын

    Hi, great and informative video. Can you please also make a video or recommend a plugin to make the backend faster. I saw that there are some plugins which let you choose which plugins and resources to load in the backend. I think that would be a good addition to this video. Thanks!

  • @kerawelt2008
    @kerawelt20082 жыл бұрын

    Superb !

  • @kwsim539
    @kwsim5392 жыл бұрын

    The Ultimate Dashboard has a nice UI, but I am going to stick with White Label CMS, which is free and provides much of the same functionality that Ulitmate Dashboard provides. White Label CMS still uses Elementor for building a custom dashboard and I have more flexibility with customizing my dashboard by dropping in my own custom CSS in the Settings tab. As for HappyFiles, I went ahead and purchased the Unlimited Pro. This was too good of a price to pass up. Working with it I found this was like a stripped downed version of the Premio Folders plugin. I love the fact it allowed me to import other folder plugins like Premio, which made the transformation seamless. I guess if you don't need all the bells & whistles that Premio Folders provides, this is definitely a must-have.

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    White Label CMS is a great option and one I've used many times myself and it is a great alternative to UDP. Good to hear you're liking HappyFiles. I was lucky enough to grab it on LTD a couple of years ago for about $20 (a complete steal) and it's great that Thomas has gone back to the project recently and updated the framework being used. It is so much snappier to use now. I'm in the camp of having the feature I need and will use over everything and the kitchen sink included. HappyFiles hits that nail on the head for me.

  • @marlokessler
    @marlokessler2 жыл бұрын

    I can also really recommend UIPress (former Admin 2020)

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Admin2020 was a solid option as is UIPress - For me, I just prefer to be able to very quickly set things up to my taste. Tools like that and WPAdminify are a solid all in one solution and a great alternative option. :)

  • @marcoprofwebsitenl6484
    @marcoprofwebsitenl64842 жыл бұрын

    The wp dasbord has become your life's work. I know how much you hate it. Thanks for this update👍

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    I wish the WordPress peeps would deal with it so we don't need to.. lol

  • @marcoprofwebsitenl6484

    @marcoprofwebsitenl6484

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@WPTuts Well you can't look a given horse in the mouth. It's an open society.

  • @Hebhansen
    @Hebhansen Жыл бұрын

    Installed Happy Files Free - Limit 10 Categories. I deleted all those I had before. It still complains that I have more than 10 folders. Other than that, thx, very informative

  • @1Deduced
    @1Deduced2 жыл бұрын

    great tutorial. I would love to implement this on some of my bigger clients. Will branding the dashboard have any effect on site speed/dashboard speeds?

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    With good hosting, it shouldn't make a noticable impact on site speed. This video was recorded on a basic Cloudways hosting account with the lowest specs and as you can probably tell from the video, it' pretty snappy. Nothing is sped up and in most cases, not edited to cut out load times.

  • @matt-minev
    @matt-minev Жыл бұрын

    Powered by Unicorn Poop is such an amazing idea!😂

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol. I wondered if anyone would mention that. 😁

  • @ebongueandre
    @ebongueandre Жыл бұрын

    Hello and thank you, witch one can allow to show the list of event in the admin page (like in the frontend )?

  • @chipcmt
    @chipcmt Жыл бұрын

    Hi mate, what plugin stack would you recommend to freshen up the WP dashboard and login screen in 2023? I've watched all your reviews and they all seem to do a good job but none of them cover everything. LoginPress looks like the best options for the login/register screen as it offers social logins which I need for my upcoming project, but it doesn't offer WP dashboard customisation. What plugin would you pair with this for that? I was quite keen on Ultimate Dashboard Pro for everything, but it doesn't offer social logins for the login screen, so that makes me lean back to LoginPress. Thanks for your help! :)

  • @bigdude6513
    @bigdude6513 Жыл бұрын

    There doesn't appear to be a free version of happy files. cant find it on their website

  • @jamorahcito
    @jamorahcito2 жыл бұрын

    Hi Paul. After trying everything under the sun, and learning from you, I have settled for zionbuilder and wpfrontendadmin. Bricks not ready yet, oxygen ui too slow, elementor, well, enough said, I have kept my 150 a year license for whatever reason, don't really use it. Wondering why you have never reviewed wpfrontendadmin (from the guys that do sheet editor also incredibly useful!), have you seen the latest zion update along with ziultimate you can do ANYTHING dynamic short of custom wpqueries in oxygen. and one last question, i am considering buying the brizy cloud LTD for 1500 for my simpler client needs. Noticed you used to be big on brizy, but as of late, radio silence? hope to hear from ya!

  • @rizamoriza9931
    @rizamoriza99312 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this video . I wonder if creating Front end (fake) dashboard solution is better/efficient solution than buy more premium plugins

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’d say both have pros and cons. For complete control and to remove clients from the WP Dashboard, a custom frontend solution is better. But, it can also be a lot of work to set up and maintain.

  • @trainofthoughtvids
    @trainofthoughtvids2 жыл бұрын

    I think Branda is way better than this because the free version of Branda has a ton of options. Just my opinion. Btw thanks for the vid. I always come here for learning new things on WordPress.

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Branda is a great option and one I've covered in the past. It's great that we have so many options to choose from, both free and premium. :)

  • @soul.rebel1986

    @soul.rebel1986

    2 жыл бұрын

    I use branda also, very good plugin.

  • @jasonbeard
    @jasonbeard2 жыл бұрын

    You look tiered, maybe a vacation away from home for 2 weeks may help.... JB

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's what a 3 month old baby does to you.. lol

  • @itevensystems8860
    @itevensystems88602 жыл бұрын

    Wpadminify is what I recommend

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good plugin but has too many default changes made to the dashboard in my opinion. :)

  • 2 жыл бұрын

    Is a plugin like this negatively affecting a websites performance in any way?

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    All plugins will have an impact on performance by their very nature. But, in general I’ve found the benefit outweighs the minimal impact they may have.

  • @imkareem1600
    @imkareem16002 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing! But still never seen this feature in the WP dashboard has been done! The menu "Horizontal" and has the option to drag it back N' forth as in KZread menu or Twitter!!! May you please do this? Or can help? Or even Guide...I'm pretty sure this feature is missing! No one has ever done any type of help or guide or blog or video how to do it!!! Hopefully you might consider an answer for this?! For god sake! Do it! 🙏

  • @MustafaSheikh
    @MustafaSheikh Жыл бұрын

    ultimate dashboards seems to be removed from wp . now when you search in plugins it doesnt appear

  • @helmutgobel9974
    @helmutgobel99742 жыл бұрын

    I canÄt find the settings for Happy Files Pro in my website backend. Is this a special edition?

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not to my knowledge. This was downloaded directly from the HappyFiles website yesterday specifically for the video. :) It is the Pro version, so maybe the free version doesn't give you thr additional features in the settings panel.

  • @helmutgobel9974

    @helmutgobel9974

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@WPTuts I do have the Pro version, but I fugured, I still had the version 0.7.1 installed, which had no automatic upgrade feature. So, I downloaded the latest version, and now it worked, like in your video. Thank you. Have great day and ... take care. ;-)

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@helmutgobel9974 ahh great to hear that you got it sorted. There is a big difference from the original plugin in both speed and the added feature. This is one of my best buys for sure. :)

  • @mfrapp20
    @mfrapp202 жыл бұрын

    How much bloat does it add if you added all of these things? That’s my only concern

  • @kylevandeusen
    @kylevandeusen2 жыл бұрын

    🤯

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    I wonder where I got the idea from? ;)

  • @kylevandeusen

    @kylevandeusen

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@WPTuts I'm just pissed how quickly you can turn around a video of this quality.🤨

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kylevandeusen For a recurring $50K retainer, I'll show you how.. lol

  • @kylevandeusen

    @kylevandeusen

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@WPTuts sure, give me $50K and teach me. What a guy!

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kylevandeusen 🤣🤣🤣

  • @barom7493
    @barom74932 жыл бұрын

    nagyon megviseltnek tűnsz. nem aludtad ki magad mostanában rendesen?

  • @WPTuts

    @WPTuts

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s what a 3 month old baby does to you. Lol

  • @barom7493

    @barom7493

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@WPTuts :D

  • @erich1998
    @erich19982 жыл бұрын

    I hear unicorn poop is more valuable than gold. That's an expensive website!

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