Are you tired of annoying WordPress notifications added by plugins and Themes ? Would you like to have better control over these notifications? In this tutorial, I'll show you how to add a notification center in WordPress that moves those notifications to a more convenient menu.

This menu will be similar to that of Facebook notifications.

Why do you need to add a WordPress action center?

WordPress allows plugins and Themes display notifications on the dashboard. sometimes these notifications become annoying in the sense that they increase the size of the pages and offend some users.

Here is what a classic dashboard might look like.

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If you are working at a customer's site, the notifications displayed can ruin the user experience on the dashboard. Your work will seem incomplete and unfinished.

If you have a WordPress multi-author blog, then some notifications may be visible to other authors as well. Sometimes these authors won't be able to do anything to perform the requested action or even hide the notification, which quickly becomes annoying.

How to correct the problem?

What we'll do is install and activate the following plugin: WP Notification Center, available at WordPress.org. After installing and activating the plugin, you will not have to do anything else. This plugin works " out-of-the-box“, Ie it does not need any configurations.

Now when you access your dashboard, you will notice a new menu that has been added to the user bar (the one at the top). This menu will capture the various notifications displayed by the WordPress plugins.

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New notifications will be counted and the total number of notifications will be displayed on the " Notifications"

However, there is no way to hide notifications on this action center. The only way to hide notifications is to perform the requested action.

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You will probably notice that the number of notifications varies between pages. The reason is that some plugins and Themes are configured to only display notifications from certain locations on the dashboard.

The user experience offered by this theme will be good both for your customers but also for your users (authors, publishers, etc.).

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