Overview
The Publisher Dashboard is a centralized management tool built into your WordPress admin area. It gives you direct control over two major areas of your Lede site: Customer Data and Settings.
Using the dashboard, you can manage your subscriber base, configure how your site looks and behaves, set up integrations with third-party services, and control features like paywalls and registration walls — all from a single interface.
Accessing the Dashboard
The dashboard is available to WordPress users with “administrator” level permissions. To access it, click the Dashboard link under the Lede tab in your WordPress admin sidebar.
How the Dashboard is Organized
The dashboard has two top-level tabs:
- Customer Data — View and manage your customers, orders, products, newsletters, sales, and coupons. This is where you handle day-to-day subscriber and revenue operations.
- Settings — Configure how your site looks and behaves. This is where you manage your site’s appearance, content gates, messaging, integrations, and feature toggles.
Each tab has a sidebar on the left that lets you navigate between sections. The sidebar changes depending on which top-level tab you’re on.
Customer Data vs. Settings
A helpful way to think about the distinction:
- Customer Data is about who — your subscribers, what they’ve purchased, what newsletters they receive, and what discounts are available to them.
- Settings is about how — how your site looks, how users log in, how your paywall behaves, what messaging visitors see, and which third-party services are connected.
Changes you make in the Settings panel take effect on your live site. Some changes (like color or typography updates) may take a few minutes to appear due to caching.