{"id":449,"date":"2024-06-23T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/23\/welcome-to-a-more-powerful-wp-admin-experience-wordpress-com\/"},"modified":"2024-06-23T20:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T20:27:10","slug":"welcome-to-a-more-powerful-wp-admin-experience-wordpress-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowfalconmedia.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/23\/welcome-to-a-more-powerful-wp-admin-experience-wordpress-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to a More Powerful WP-Admin Experience &#8211; WordPress.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\">WordPress.com News<\/a><br \/>The wp-admin experience you know and love comes to WordPress.com. <br \/>Eric Binnion<br \/>As Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg <a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2024\/01\/automattics-big-re-org\/\">teased in a January blog post<\/a>, our team at WordPress.com is working hard to enhance our developer experience. Improving what you see in your dashboard when you log into WordPress.com is one of our biggest goals.<br \/>Today, we\u2019re excited to unveil a more powerful wp-admin experience (if you know, you know), which will soon be available to all sites on Creator and Entrepreneur plans. Read on to find out how to get early access.<br \/>For many years, the default view for WordPress.com users has been a modernized, more friendly version of the classic WordPress experience. Around the office, we call this interface \u201cCalypso.\u201d It offers sleek post\/page management, easy profile edits, built-in tips and resources for starting or growing your site, and more.<br \/>While the Calypso interface is ideal for some folks, we\u2019ve heard from a lot of developers that you\u2019d prefer easy access to the classic WordPress dashboard experience. So, we\u2019re doing just that by making it possible for wp-admin to be the default view when you log in.&nbsp;<br \/>Our mission here is to empower our power users\u2014those on Creator and Entrepreneur plans\u2014to leverage WordPress to its fullest. This update promises:<br \/>While this initial launch is for Creator and Entrepreneur subscribers, our commitment extends to <em>all<\/em> WordPress.com users. We\u2019re excited about the possibility of expanding these features to everyone in the future.<br \/>Note: Early access has closed for now. Stay tuned for even more updates coming your way, including a few menu and navigation changes that you won\u2019t want to miss.<br \/><strong><label for=\"subscribe-field\">Email Newsletter<\/label><\/strong><br \/>Missing out on the latest WordPress.com developments? Enter your email below to receive future announcements direct to your inbox. An email confirmation will be sent before you will start receiving notifications\u2014please check your spam folder if you don&#8217;t receive this.<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<label \t\t\t\t\t\tid=\"subscribe-field-label\" \t\t\t\t\t\tfor=\"subscribe-field\" \t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"screen-reader-text\" \t\t\t\t\t> \t\t\t\t\t\tEmail Address:\t\t\t\t\t<\/label>  \t\t\t\t\t<input \t\t\t\t\t\t\ttype=\"email\" \t\t\t\t\t\t\tname=\"email\" \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"width: 95%; padding: 1px 10px\" \t\t\t\t\t\t\tplaceholder=\"Email Address\" \t\t\t\t\t\t\tvalue=\"\" \t\t\t\t\t\t\tid=\"subscribe-field\" \t\t\t\t\t\t\trequired\t\/>\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"action\" value=\"subscribe\"\/> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"blog_id\" value=\"3584907\"\/> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"source\" value=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/\"\/> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"sub-type\" value=\"widget\"\/> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_fragment\" value=\"subscribe-blog\"\/> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"_wpnonce\" name=\"_wpnonce\" value=\"503756035a\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"submit\" \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"wp-block-button__link subscribe-button-custom\" \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t> \t\t\t\t\t\tFollow\t\t\t\t\t<\/button> \t\t\t\t<br \/><span>Comments are closed.<\/span><br \/>Looking forward. Thank you!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441141&#038;_wpnonce=3b887cae7f\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441141\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"13\">13 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>and yet WP is the only website dashboard that changes with every deletion or addition of a plugin &ndash; totally juvenile<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441151&#038;_wpnonce=c6cc8f5ca6\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441151\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"7\">7 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>Hello there &#128075;<br \/>Personally, I tend to look at the flexibility of being able to change the dashboard as a good thing. So, I&rsquo;d be really interested to hear any more feedback that you&rsquo;re willing to share.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441175&#038;_wpnonce=f05135d68b\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441175\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"4\">4 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>It is not a step back when you realize that what you have offered in the past is not only relevant but still wanted.<br \/> Having said that, is there any chance that the Reader opens first the Subscription page instead of Discover, like it used to? <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441157&#038;_wpnonce=8daf16fd66\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441157\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"12\">12 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>Hello Spira &#128075;<br \/>Thank you for the request. I&rsquo;ll share your feedback with the team that works on Reader.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441176&#038;_wpnonce=9c5b053916\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441176\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"3\">3 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>Reader now defaults to the last option choosen. Thank you, Eric and team.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441307&#038;_wpnonce=c2fb380217\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441307\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"2\">2 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>Always pleased to know you&rsquo;re continually trying to enhance the blogging experience, thanks! Just one niggle, to do with the Reader: why does it default to &lsquo;Discover&rsquo;? I have a whole host of blogs I follow and would rather go straight to Subscriptions, much as I like to occasionally see what&rsquo;s recommended.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441158&#038;_wpnonce=14fc4e9342\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441158\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"13\">13 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>Hi Calmgrove &#128075;<br \/>Thanks for the feedback. I&rsquo;ll share your feedback with that team.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441177&#038;_wpnonce=8a821e28a0\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441177\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"1\">1 person<\/a><\/span><br \/>I use the webpage Reader on my laptop and &lsquo;Recent&rsquo; being both the first option and the default always seemed a winner, with &lsquo;Discover&rsquo; always a second object. As far as I&rsquo;m concerned the original default option is then definitely a case of &ldquo;less is more&rdquo;.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441178&#038;_wpnonce=5538558e65\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441178\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"3\">3 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>I use both dashboards (Default and Classic) freely every day depending on what tasks I&rsquo;m performing or what information I&rsquo;m looking for. I would like your assurance that wp-admin will remain available for everyone via the &ldquo;View&rdquo; tab with this new development. Thanks.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441159&#038;_wpnonce=292079156c\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441159\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"12\">12 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>Hello JenT &#128075;<br \/>Thank you for the comment! The &ldquo;View&rdquo; tab functionality remains untouched for sites that are not opted in to this new wp-admin experience.<br \/>May I ask what you like most about the default and classic views? And why do you switch between the views?<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441179&#038;_wpnonce=fdddfa4397\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441179\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"1\">1 person<\/a><\/span><br \/>Thanks for asking, Eric. I&rsquo;ve been around WordPress.com for a while, so &ldquo;grew up&rdquo; with the Classic dashboard.<br \/>I like the Classic WP Admin homepage for its one-page view of all the things that are important to me. I can dive into details by clicking any of the modules. I also like the WP Admin Posts and Pages Dashboards for the &ldquo;Quick Edit&rdquo; and Bulk Edit features and uncomplicated Previews and the ability to sort\/view Posts by Category or Tags. <br \/>I also like the Default view of the Posts dashboard for its easy ability to Share posts again on my Social Media sites (as a part of my upgrade plan) and for being able to quickly see Recent Views\/Comments\/Likes per Post.<br \/>The different views for the Media Library offer different options as well and each have their advantages.<br \/>There&rsquo;s probably more, but that&rsquo;s what I can think of off the top of my head. Again, thanks for asking.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441189&#038;_wpnonce=b2aa33a053\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441189\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"6\">6 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>And thank you for confirming that the View tab will remain. \ud83d\ude42<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441190&#038;_wpnonce=42f95f3f5c\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441190\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"4\">4 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>Every improvement is a step toward advancement. I love and cherish every step forward.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441166&#038;_wpnonce=007479d3d6\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441166\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"4\">4 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>I have activated the classic wp-admin, but dwelling around for 15 mins, I think the changes are very subtle. Most notable is classic wp-admin is now &lsquo;narrower&rsquo;, thus leaving more space for the layout.<br \/>I don&rsquo;t see &lsquo;WooCommerce&rsquo; and &lsquo;upgrades&rsquo; anymore. &lsquo;Stats&rsquo; is now combine in single menu called Jetpack. &lsquo;Upgrades&rsquo; is now organized into &lsquo;Hosting&rsquo;.<br \/>Overall, switching didn&rsquo;t make me go crazy finding those navigation based on previous experience. It&rsquo;s a lot cleaner and tidier. A positive welcome indeed, and moving forward I believe this save WP developers so much time to create different version between self-hosted and WP.com<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441199&#038;_wpnonce=a3b4962fad\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441199\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"6\">6 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>Hi Leo,<br \/>Thank you so much for the feedback. <br \/>I&rsquo;m glad to hear that the changes are subtle and that the change is a positive welcome!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441206&#038;_wpnonce=fd9e54337c\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441206\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"2\">2 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>I will do my best to give information that will help the project to succeed.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441300&#038;_wpnonce=d0df71d301\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441300\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"2\">2 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>I don&rsquo;t think there can be any competitor closer to WordPress. Everything on this platform is amazing, talk of easy of use, security and more. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441306&#038;_wpnonce=8932b33343\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441306\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"5\">5 people<\/a><\/span><br \/>I have looked at so many website builders that were free, only to find out that for them free meant &ldquo;$28&rdquo; every two months. keep creating WordPress!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/04\/wp-admin\/?like_comment=441647&#038;_wpnonce=158be90564\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\"  data-blog=\"3584907\"><span>Like<\/span><\/a><span id=\"comment-like-count-441647\" class=\"comment-like-feedback\">Liked by <a href=\"#\" class=\"view-likers\" data-like-count=\"2\">2 people<\/a><\/span><br \/><a id=\"enblog-cta-footer\" class=\"button is-primary is-large is-cta wpcom-button\" href=\"\/\/wordpress.com\/start\/?ref=enblog-cta-footer\">Get Started<\/a><br \/> \t\t<span>An <\/span><a class=\"automattic-logo\" href=\"https:\/\/automattic.com\/\">Automattic<\/a><span> Invention<\/span>\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou must be <a href=\"#\" class=\"jp-carousel-comment-login\">logged in<\/a> to post a comment.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiL2h0dHBzOi8vd29yZHByZXNzLmNvbS9ibG9nLzIwMjQvMDMvMDQvd3AtYWRtaW4v0gEA?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress.com NewsThe wp-admin experience you know and love comes to WordPress.com. 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