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WordPress Customizing the WordPress Admin Area Custom Dashboard Widgets in WordPress Updating the Footer Text in the Admin Area in WordPress

Jonathan Obino
Jonathan Obino
3,155 Points

What about customizing it by, for example, the functions.php file?

In these last tutorials you are showing how to customize the admin area just with plugins, what about customizing them with hand coding?

Blake Anneberg
Blake Anneberg
23,304 Points

Good idea and hope this helps: There are different ways to do certain things. The videos your watching (if i remember) will allow you to help someone set up a very custom backend. just remember, when Wordpress updates (for security) files will get changed. so editing them with the plugins is a way of making sure what your doing is future proof and won't mess with future updates.

Jonathan Obino
Jonathan Obino
3,155 Points

well, customizing that with functions.php I think that does the job well, even if Wordpress updates it doesn't change your custom functions.php file

1 Answer

Zac Gordon
STAFF
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi!

I think you're missing about half the videos! We go through both code examples and plugin examples so you can take either approach.

Try this video for example: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/customizing-the-wordpress-admin-area/custom-dashboard-widgets-in-wordpress/how-to-add-custom-wordpress-dashboard-widgets-via-the-functionsphp-file

Jonathan Obino
Jonathan Obino
3,155 Points

I'm following the wordpress path, plugins are the next "episode" in the track, anyway thanks for quick answer, worth the money :D