Navigating a Cluttered Dashboard

As you add more plugins to a WordPress site—such as SEO tools, e-commerce suites, and translation modules—the main Posts and Pages dashboard screens can quickly become cluttered. Each plugin often adds its own column to the list view, displaying data like SEO scores, view counts, internal links, and custom metadata. On smaller laptop screens, these crowded columns compress your page titles into unreadable text, making it difficult to find and edit your content.

The Admin Columns Minimalist plugin helps you clean up this workspace. It provides a simple management screen to turn off unnecessary columns, restoring a clean, organized view to your content dashboards.

Cleaning Up Your Dashboard Columns

  1. Onboarding Phase: Go to Plugins > Add New, search for "Admin Columns Minimalist", click Install Now, and then Activate.

  2. Opening the Configuration Panel: Navigate to Settings > Minimalist Columns.

  3. Selecting Columns to Hide: The plugin displays an organized grid listing every column active on your site. Check the boxes next to the data screens you want to remove from your view:

    • Hide Tags / Categories: Clear out extra taxonomies if you don't use them for organization.

    • Suppress SEO Analytics Columns: Hide readability scores or keyword focus metrics from your primary view.

    • Remove Comments Indicator: Turn off the comments bubble column if you have discussion sections disabled across your site.

  4. Saving Your Layout: Click Save Column Preferences to apply the cleaner view.

A Streamlined Writing Workflow

Once configured, navigate back to your Posts > All Posts screen. The crowded layout is replaced by a clean, spacious view that prioritizes what matters most: your content titles and modification dates.

This clean workspace helps your editorial team review and update content faster, free from the distraction of unnecessary plugin data columns.