November 2, 2020 — Im Februar 2020 – vor einer gefühlten Ewigkeit – hat sich Caspar Hübinger mit dem WordPress-Admin-Menü beschäftigt. Genauer gesagt mit dessen Struktur und den Möglichkeiten, sie zu vereinfachen.

Caspar arbeitet sich dafür durch die Grundlagen der User-Experience, hat mit Expertinnen aus verschiedenen Bereichen gesprochen und seinen Entwurf immer weiter verbessert bis er schließlich zu einem kleinen Proof-of-Concept-Plugin gekommen ist, das sich sehen lassen kann.

Bei unserem Meetup am 14.10. hat Caspar uns von dieser Reise berichtet und gezeigt, wie ein aufgeräumtes Admin-Menü für neue und alteingesessene WordPress-Nutzerinnen und -Nutzer funktionieren kann.

October 10, 2017 — A great end-user experience starts with a great experience for web admins. Editor interfaces shouldn’t be an afterthought—the most sophisticated tooling quickly becomes useless if it’s counterintuitive. Let’s talk through principles behind developing editor interfaces, as well as concrete tips about how to leverage core and plugin functionality to build on top of the WordPress admin.

April 3, 2017 — Managing multiple websites can be a challenge. This talk will cover the features of popular WordPress dashboard management tools to help you discover the best dashboard for your needs.

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January 14, 2017 — The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin is a powerful tool that allows you to extend the capabilities of WordPress admin without writing any additional code to create these fields.

We’ll explore:
• How ACF allows you to offer additional functionality to your clients
• How to use these new fields in your templates
• And how to make sure you don’t go too far when adding fields.

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August 24, 2016 — The WordPress Administration area is no walk in the park. Just because it’s, perhaps, the most user-friendly of the big CMSs doesn’t necessary make it objectively easy to use. All sorts of things that can seriously break your site are mixed in with trivial options. And, once you start adding robust plugins, things can get complicated – fast.

There are many ways to make WordPress more palatable for the common user (see: non-developers) and reduce the risk of big-time accidents. In this session, I’ll show you how easy it is to remove things users don’t need from the admin area—all with your own plugin.

Don’t worry if you haven’t written a plugin before. Not only will I give you the working plugin to start with, but I’ll explain everything along the way.

Let’s make WordPress just a little easier and safer for everyone!

Take aways:

Make the admin area easier for the most common users.
Reduce the risk of “damage” by users.
Customize the admin with a simple plugin (code provided!)

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