A Guide to the New Dashboard – pt 1
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1. Customization
– Click “Screen Options” (top right) to select items to be displayed.
Screen options are specific to a particular screen: there are separate options for the main dashboard screen, the post, page and link editors, the lists of posts, pages, categories, tags, links, link categories and comments, the media library, the authors & users screen.
– In the main dashboard screen, the items (called “modules”) can be dragged and rearranged, both vertically and horizontally (including having them in either one or two columns).
– In the post editor and the page editor, all modules except the title bar and the main editor window can also be rearranged: you can change their order, also move any or all of them below the editor window.
– All modules can collapse or expand, by clicking on their title bar.
– In the navigation menu (left sidebar), any section can collapse or expand, by clicking the arrow in its title bar.
– The whole navigation menu can be minimized to a column of icons only, by clicking on the arrows of the grey separator lines.
2. Main navigation changes
Top level navigation used to be Write ( -> post or page), Manage ( -> posts or pages), etc. Now it’s reversed: Posts ( -> add new or edit), Pages ( -> add new or edit), etc. Therefore:
– “Write: Post”, “Write: Page” and “Write: Link” are now “Posts: Add New”, “Pages: Add New”, “Links: Add New”.
– “Manage: Posts”, “Manage: Pages” and “Manage: Links” are now “Posts: Edit”, “Pages: Edit”, “Links: Edit”.
– “Manage: Media Library” is now “Media: Library”. The “Media” section now includes “Add new” (uploading directly to the library, not via the post or page editor).
– Managing as well as adding categories and tags is in the “Posts” section; managing as well as adding link categories is in the “Links” section.
(Note that clicking on a section title in the navigation menu is the same as clicking the first item of the section.)
In addition:
– “Design” is now “Appearance”. “Custom Image Header” is now top level.
– The “Tools” section includes Turbo, Press This, Import and Export.
– The name of the blog (top left) works as the former “Visit site” tab. There is also a “View” tab under the post/page titles in “Posts/Pages: Edit”.
– The Forum and Support links are under “Help” (top right).
– Up left in the Admin bar there is a “New Post” shortcut. A similar shortcut to the right includes creating new page and uploading media as well as access to comments and drafts.
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Thanks for posting this. I think that once people realise the customisability of 2.7 there won’t be nearly so much fuss.
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Maybe WordPress admin could ‘insert’ (something like) this as a temporary memo on the dashboard?
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@All: Thanks.
@diamondfistwerny: Agree. I’m thinking of someone who signs up for a blog today; IF he has problems, then MAYBE he’ll click Help, click Support, and find this:
http://support.wordpress.com/wordpress-27-changes/
Otherwise he may never suspect he can rearrange, resize, collapse or remove modules – which isn’t the most obvious thing in the dashboard, is it? So I think we should at least have a note or a link on customization. -
Agree. It’s not obvious that you can move things around. Also, if a new person did not know that the system is new, then the old answers in the forums won’t be very helpful. (Like describing where things are…)
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No, the forums and the search feature will still be here, it is just that the FAQ’s are being updated and moved to the new place. I expect that they will be going through and reviewing and closing irrelevant threads that don’t apply to 2.7, as they did after the switch to 2.5.
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Thanks for the info about the new “support” pages and it’s great if the FAQ’s are to be updated.
Also, this post should be made a sticky.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/a-guide-to-the-new-dashboard-pt-1?replies=13 -
I have a question: is the dashboard display a per user option or a per blog option? In other words, if I have a blog that has multiple authors, will the changes I make to the layout only affect what I see when I’m in the dashboard or will it affect what EVERYONE sees in the dashboard?
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@vivianpaige
Your configurations (screen options, open/closed state of modules, module locations, media insert choices like alignment and link url) are per user per blog.So your configurations aren’t seen by anyone else. If you have multiple blogs, you can configure each differently.
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The cookie also gets saved to the database, so if you jump to another computer or use multiple browsers, your configuration will move with you.
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I’m wondering if the new ‘Visit Site’ arrow that’s appeared is a permanent feature? It does look a bit naff. I know people requested it, but once you’ve found the link you don’t need it constantly pointed out.
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