Dashboard Switcher

Clients call you because they cannot find what they need

You hand over a finished website, the client logs into the WordPress dashboard and finds news widgets and a generic welcome screen that says nothing about their business or about you. A week later they write to you about something you already explained. Dashboard Switcher replaces that first screen with your own content.

The idea behind it: the dashboard is the one part of a website your client sees every time they work on it, and almost nobody takes advantage of it. Whoever builds websites for others gets a space of their own there, in front of the client, right when they need help.

What Dashboard Switcher does with the WordPress dashboard

It works on a simple logic: you create the content with the page builder or theme you already use and implement it inside the plugin. No coding needed.

• Custom welcome screen: fully replaces the WordPress welcome screen with the content you want (video tutorials, instructions, a contact form).
• Custom elements: if you do not want to replace the whole screen, you add one or more elements of your own alongside what is already there.
• Your own admin pages: you can add up to 30 new pages to the dashboard and load any content you want into them, with a menu icon picker.
• Synchronization: the content is loaded through an iFrame, so you edit once and the change reaches your clients' websites.
• Multisite: you can push your custom pages to all subsites in the network.
• Extra control: user role management, multisite restriction and security options for iframes.

One limit to keep in mind: the content lives on a central site and is displayed through an iFrame. So you need that source website built and reachable, and the plugin installed on every website where you want to show it. It is not a dashboard editor by itself: it does not ship content templates, you build them with your page builder.

Three uses that make sense in a dashboard

Support and onboarding

Instructions, FAQs and a contact form or buttons in the backend reduce repeated questions. The client has the answer right where they are working.

A showcase for your services

The dashboard can display your maintenance services, add-ons or news. It is a direct channel to someone who already knows you, so use it in moderation: if it looks like constant advertising, the client stops looking at it.

One piece of content for many websites

If you manage several websites, you maintain a single welcome page instead of editing each dashboard separately.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to know how to code?

No. You build the content with the page builder or theme you already use and connect it from the plugin.

Can I use it on my clients' websites?

Yes, it is designed for that: freelancers, agencies and developers who deliver websites to third parties. It also works on your own site.

Does it work on multisite?

Yes. You can push your pages to all subsites in the network and limit it with the multisite options.

Can I show different things depending on the user?

The plugin includes user role management. Check in the demo how far it goes for the case you have in mind.

Build the content first, then connect each website

Before installing, be clear about what you want the client to see: a welcome message, a couple of elements or several help pages. Build that content on your source website with your page builder and check how it looks inside an iframe, because theme menus or headers can get in the way in a small frame. Then implement the screen, elements or pages in the plugin, and repeat the connection on each client website. Test with a single site before rolling it out to the rest.