{"id":854,"date":"2011-07-01T23:08:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T03:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.boston.wordcamp.org\/?p=854"},"modified":"2011-10-09T18:48:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T22:48:02","slug":"customizing-the-admin-interface-for-better-usability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/customizing-the-admin-interface-for-better-usability\/","title":{"rendered":"Customizing the Admin Interface for Better Usability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/jakerainis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jake Rainis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nikibrown.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Niki Brown<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What the presentation is about<\/strong><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve  been developing websites in WordPress professionally for several years  now and have really been fascinated by the aspect of its use as  full-blown content management system. WordPress is obviously a very  powerful platform. Throughout our experience, we&#8217;ve made many  content-managed websites for clients. To us developers, the WP admin  interface is very simple and intuitive, particularly considering the  amount of trouble that we go through on the back-end to make it behave  the way it should. However, we&#8217;ve found that a lot of clients that were  so gung-ho about having their own self-powered CMS simply weren&#8217;t using  it. It still wasn&#8217;t easy or intuitive enough. Formatting through the WYSIWYG was a pain in the butt. They&#8217;d get lost trying to create a new  piece of content. They&#8217;d add a page, it would break the menu layout.  Yes, the site was content managed, but it wasn&#8217;t client manageable.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps  you or someone you know has been in a similar situation with a client.  It sucks. You&#8217;ve done the work you estimated you&#8217;ve given the client  that deliverable but the client isn&#8217;t quite satisfied. So no one wins.  In the interest of combating this problem, we&#8217;ve found some great  plugins and techniques to customize your WordPress site to fit the  specific needs of your client and make it feel like THEIR CMS, and an  out-of-the-box WordPress install.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who this presentation is for<\/strong><br \/>\nThis  presentation isn&#8217;t meant to be overly technical and in-depth  &#8216;programmatically&#8217;, but rather an overview of what you can do easily to  improve client usability or usability for you and your own site. However, even if you&#8217;re just a little familiar  with WordPress development, this presentation will give you more than  enough information to achieve this functionality on your own. We&#8217;ll be  taking questions afterwards if you have something specific to ask and  we&#8217;re always available online to help as well, so hit us up!<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jake Rainis and Niki Brown What the presentation is about We&#8217;ve been developing websites in WordPress professionally for several years now and have really been fascinated by the aspect of its use as full-blown content management system. WordPress is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/customizing-the-admin-interface-for-better-usability\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Customizing the Admin Interface for Better Usability<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7694169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6846],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tTIn-dM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7694169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}