Choose a design for our next theme, get it free!

Update: Voting is now closed. Design #3 is the clear winner so that is the theme we will be developing next! Thanks to all the people who voted and left comments! We will announce the winners in due course who will get a FREE copy of the new theme.

Can I get your opinion?

I created a few designs for our next theme, and I’d like to know which one you like best.

As a thank you for your time, I’d like to give you a chance to win a free version of the theme just for voting.
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How to Simplify the WordPress Admin for Your Clients

The WordPress admin dashboard can be a scary thing for first-time users.

When we develop sites for clients, sometimes it makes sense to remove some of the UI items they don’t need in the admin area to make it less intimidating. We used many of these admin customizations with WordPress Multisite (or WPMU), to make our customer’s sites more user-friendly. (The code in this article works with normal WP and multisite)

There are basically 3 things you can do easily to start:

1. Remove some admin menus and sub menus
2. Remove some default widgets
3. Simplify dashboard and post/page list screens

Here are some tips and tricks for customizing the WordPress admin by adding code to your child theme’s functions.php file.

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