Title: Making wordpress easily manageable Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Making wordpress easily manageable * [Driglou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driglou/) * (@driglou) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-easily-manageable/) * I made a few websites with wordpress, but till this day I keep wondering and thinking, how do I make easily manageable wordpress website, so my clients don’t need to learn things and they have a simple, personalized and well sophisticated CMS. * I don’t mean about tones of features, like changing colors of backgrounds in website or similar stuff, but the content creating side of wordpress. Things like Custome Fields, Inline editing, etc… * Maybe someone can give me some tips and examples of a good made admin panels. Is more like a general discussion than a question, yet I am waiting everyone that has something to suggest. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [Digico Paris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digico-paris/) * (@digico-paris) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-easily-manageable/#post-6582740) * Hi, * Not an expert on this, but sure with a little work you can create special users( that are custom admins) that only see what you want in admin panel. You even disable many parts of the left admin panel if you dig. * This requires some php customization and such, but nothing that looks huge to code, I know some agencies do that. * No example at hand, sorry. * [Jason King](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasoncharlesstuartking/) * (@jasoncharlesstuartking) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-easily-manageable/#post-6582947) * There are plenty of code snippets that you can (carefully) chuck into functions. php to make the editing toolbar and the dashboard behave in a way that better suits your clients. Google ’em. * Even better, take that code and put them into your own plugin – easier than it might sound, and ready for quick install on other sites. * Here’s a few things I do: * – add the Formats drop-down to the editor and create formats for buttons, lead paragraphs etc. Why is this really useful option normally hidden? * – remove H1, H5, H6 from the drop-down so clients don’t choose them * – remove the colour picker and other never-used icons, and put all icons onto a single row * – put a maximum number of characters on the Excerpt box, with a counter so they know how many chrs they’re written * – hook the stylesheet up to the editor so that it’s actually WYSIWIG * – remove the link to Appearance > Editor – it’s too dangerous! * – add a panel to main dashboard with my contact/support info on it * – remove default widgets that shouldn’t get used * – etc etc * [RonB80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronb80/) * (@ronb80) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-easily-manageable/#post-6582949) * Jason, I just wish I had a minim of your knowledge, having read what you would do, I would not even know where or how to start. As I said earlier, I am not a computer idiot but my knowledge is basic so what you have said means very little to me. All I want to do is remove the word count from the bottom of my home page and be able to complete the contact details which appear right at the bottom of the page. * I do appreciate you advice and feel so sorry that because of my lack of knowledge am not able to take advantage of it but thank you very much in deed fro trying to help me. I chose WordPress to build my site because it said it was easy to use, well it is, unless you need to make alterations and then it isn’t. Kindest regards, * RonB80 (Now 83!!) * [Jason King](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasoncharlesstuartking/) * (@jasoncharlesstuartking) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-easily-manageable/#post-6582950) * What’s your website address? It would be unusual for a word count to appear to the public. * [RonB80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronb80/) * (@ronb80) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-easily-manageable/#post-6582951) * Thank you for coming back. My web site add is [http://parishofifield.apps-1and1.net/](http://parishofifield.apps-1and1.net/) you will see the text I am trying to get rid of right under the striped bars. Also right at the bottom of the page where it says “Join us at // Telephone”, I cannot find anyway to add any text in there. It is all a mystery to me and I have spent hours working at it all to no avail. I am nearly half way down a bottle of malt whisky in attempts to dull the frustration of it all. * Kind regards, * ronB80 (now 83 and getting older by the day!!!) * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-easily-manageable/#post-6582952) * [@ronb80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronb80/), Please don’t take over someone else’s topic. * [Digico Paris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digico-paris/) * (@digico-paris) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-easily-manageable/#post-6582997) * Guys, it seems this topic is going a bit offroad of creating special users. * [@ronb80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronb80/) Just checked your website. To be quick, I suggest you try another theme like Twenty Fifteen or Dazzling. New themes allows to do that kind of changes _much easier than before_. Plus, you can setup these right from your admin panel, without loosing your actual website and switch back to what you use _at any time_. * [https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyfifteen/](https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyfifteen/) [https://wordpress.org/themes/dazzling/](https://wordpress.org/themes/dazzling/) * In general, texts like you want to change could be found either on: * – Dashboard > Appearance > Theme Options > footer or so – Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets – If not in any of those, it’s a theme specific page or a specific CSS class – it’s useful to know at least some basic CSS to customize your WP website – you can find many good tutorials on the web * Good luck, Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Making wordpress easily manageable’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin/) * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) * 7 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [Digico Paris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digico-paris/) * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-wordpress-easily-manageable/#post-6582997) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics