In today’s episode, I share 3 simple tips to make your WordPress admin area better for yourself and your clients.
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Keegan 0:00
In today’s episode I’m going to share three simple tips to make your WordPress admin area just a little bit better for yourself and for your client.
Keegan 0:24
What’s going on everybody welcome to another episode of the Divi addicts podcast. As always, we appreciate you being here. And this week we’re talking about the admin area and how you can customize it to make things better for you. And also better for your clients. This comes back to one product that I really really love that I use a lot because I have a membership to them is WPMU DEVs brand a plugin, they recently redid it, and it’s really, really good. You can brand your login pages, you can change the menu structure on the left, you can change the names, you can change posts to blog posts, you can change any of the names of any of the plugins to something different, you can change the icon.
Keegan 1:04
But there’s a few things that I really highly recommend that you do to really make the site easier for you to use and easier for you to pass on to a client. So this plugin, first and foremost is going to give you the ability to customize the admin area so that you can organize things by priority. You know, putting your if you’re using Divi put Divi at the very top next to your dashboard, then your posts, then pages if you write new pages often if you’re doing landing pages or you know the priority depends on how you use your site.
Keegan 1:35
But you can take your downloads, if it’s easy digital downloads your products, if it’s WooCommerce, and move them up to the top based on different job or different roles that you have, I’m going to call it job codes based on different roles that you have. And your user access, you can customize them as well. So he can rename things for an editor and a contributor and a subscriber and move those menus around as well. So that’s the first tip is customize that admin area, specifically the menu.
Keegan 2:03
The second thing is with the duplication post plugin, you can like this is something I think really should be part of Divi, by default is the ability to go in and duplicate a page right inside of the inside of the the list of pages or posts that you have, you know, when you hover over and underneath it, you have edit, you have quick edit and all those things, the duplication plugin adds another option where you can just hit duplicate, and it’ll copy that change the name, and then you’ve got the same page and you can go in and change the copy. I love that for a lot of different reasons, I use it pretty often. So that’s another one that, to me is a function now a functionality that I think most people who aren’t very tech savvy, completely expect to be there, but it’s not. So that’s one that I added on every single site.
Keegan 2:48
And then the last one is going back to the very first plugin with branda. And it’s to brand the client admin area, you know, customizing it as one thing. And given an extra functionality is a great thing also. But you really want to if you’re if you’re doing client websites to brand the client’s WordPress area, because every time they log in to do a new post or whatever, they’re going to see your logo, they’re going to see your branding.
Keegan 3:13
And that stuff goes a long way to keep you top of mind. If you pair that with like a safety plan, where you’re doing maintenance and upload updating WordPress, updating themes and plugins and all that stuff, you’re going to stay top of mind and it’s going to make people think about you every single time because the last thing you want them to do is to go a year or two down the road with their website that you built. And then when the time comes for them to get a new site or update their site, they don’t think about you recurring incomes, the name of the game, repeat business referrals. That’s the name of this game. So make sure that your branding is in the back end. Especially if you’re using Divi I host with Flywheel and they have a thing called Blueprints. And Blueprints allow you to basically set a stage and then create a template that you can use as a base install for every site you have moving forward.
Keegan 4:01
This is a game changer because it speeds up the time and allows you to have consistent back in layout. And then you can just build based on the client’s needs on top of that, but I build those templates with everything that I use on the regular. So those are those are the three quick tips number one, customize the admin area menu. Number two, add in the duplicate post plug in that way you can duplicate any post page, custom post type any of those things. And then the third one is to brand your client admin area. If you do those three things, you’re going to get better usability out of the back end, you’re also going to stay top of mind and give the client and yourself a better user experience when you’re using your WordPress site.
Keegan 4:46
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