Case study – a custom backend dashboard

Throughout this chapter, we discovered that modules increase the flexibility of your website, either on the frontend or backend. We also saw that modules can be used in the backend to customize the administration experience, simplifying paths, and enriching the level of information shown in the dashboards.

With Joomla 4 dashboards, every backend can be different from the others, thanks to the custom modules placed in different positions. In this section, we will analyze, as a case study, a customized backend dashboard.

The scenario

We are building a website for a school, and we will give administrator access (with some limited privileges) to the school’s staff to allow them to create articles. We also want to provide some on-screen guidance to them, to remind them where they should go to do the operations. To do so, we need to create custom modules with some text instructions and links to access features. In this case study...