Pimp your wordpress dashboard

The WordPress dashboard throws a lot of information at you, and sometimes it can be a little overwhelming. The good news is that you can customize it to suit your own preferences and workflow.

• If you don’t want to see recent comments, hide them.
• If you don’t want to see the latest posts from the Automattic team, hide them too.

How to: In the upper-right corner of your dashboard, you have two buttons: “Screen Options” and “Help”. Click “Screen Options”.

Now you can choose to show or hide any of the widgets that appear on your dashboard. Here are some of the options you may see.

• At a Glance
• Activity
• Quick Draft
• WordPress News
• Welcome

From the dashboard, you can also drag and drop these widgets to appear in the order and position you prefer. Also, you can minimize each of the widgets by clicking the small triangle in the upper-right corner of any widget.

Here’s what one of the setup looks like – lean and mean.