DawsonyWeb Client Video Tutorials

Give your clients a library of how-to videos inside their WordPress dashboard. Add your own uploads or YouTube and Vimeo links, choose which user roles see the tutorial library, and let clients track what they have watched. It is built for agencies and freelancers who want fewer “how do I” emails after handover.

Features

• Personal progress – Mark tutorials complete or incomplete and see your progress. Editing tutorial content resets its completion status.

• Keyboard ordering – Use Up and Down controls to reorder tutorials, then save the new order.

• Repeatable tutorial blocks – Add as many tutorials as you need, each with a title, description, and video.

• Searchable library – Find tutorials by title or description without reloading the page.
• Click-to-load players – Viewers choose when to connect to an external video provider.
• Dashboard widget – A compact tutorial list appears on the WordPress dashboard for quick access.
• Dedicated tutorial page – A full admin page with video players and descriptions so clients can watch without leaving wp-admin.
• Role-based visibility – Control which user roles can see the tutorials page and widget.
• Drag-and-drop ordering – Reorder tutorials with a simple drag handle.
• Media library integration – Select videos directly from the WordPress media library.
• YouTube and Vimeo links – Paste a hosted video URL instead of uploading a file.

Use Cases

• Agencies providing training materials to clients after site launch.
• Freelancers who build sites and need to leave behind how-to guides.
• In-house teams onboarding new editors or content managers.

Philosophy

• No front-end output or performance impact – everything runs in wp-admin only.
• No plugin telemetry. Hosted videos connect to their provider only when the viewer chooses to load or open one.
• Input sanitisation and escaped output.
• Nonces for all actions, capability checks for all settings.
• Uninstall removes tutorial settings and the current site’s saved completion data. Uploaded videos remain in the Media Library.

Privacy

Tutorial settings are stored in WordPress options. Completion tracking is stored in site-prefixed user meta for each user. Media-library videos are served by your site. YouTube and Vimeo videos are click-to-load: no provider request is made until a viewer selects Load video or follows the external video link. Loading a video sends connection information, including IP address, to that provider and is subject to its privacy policy.

YouTube privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Vimeo privacy: https://vimeo.com/privacy

Automatic Installation

1. Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress admin.
2. Search for “Client Video Tutorials for WordPress Admin”.
3. Click Install Now, then Activate.

Manual Installation

1. Download the plugin ZIP file.
2. Go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
3. Upload the ZIP and click Install Now.
4. Activate the plugin.

FTP Installation

1. Extract the ZIP file.
2. Upload the dawsonyweb-client-tutorial-videos folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
3. Activate via Plugins in the WordPress admin.

1. 

   Reorder tutorials using keyboard-accessible Up and Down controls.

2. 

   Track your own tutorial completion in the searchable library.

1.3.3

• Updated the plugin display name with distinctive DawsonyWeb branding. No functionality changes.

1.3.2

• Improved plugin directory listing and documentation.

1.3.1

• Updated the public plugin name and listing text. No feature, settings or data changes.

1.3.0

• Keyboard-accessible Up and Down controls reorder tutorials, with position announcements and persistent ordering after saving.
• Private per-user completion tracking includes a library progress summary and an option to mark guides incomplete. Changing tutorial content resets its completion status.

1.2.0

• Redesigned management screens and the tutorial library to match Product & Shipping Label Designer for WooCommerce.
• Keep the selected settings tab after saving. Recover defaults for incomplete legacy settings.
• Validate role selections and video attachments, repair duplicate tutorial IDs and handle malformed tutorial fields safely.

1.1.0

• Added tutorial search and click-to-load external videos. Removed the Tutorial Videos menu for roles that cannot view the tutorial library. Refreshed the DawsonyWeb workspace and documented video-provider privacy.

1.0.9

• Added YouTube and Vimeo URL support for tutorial videos.
• Uploaded media-library videos continue to work as before.

1.0.8

• Compatibility: tested up to WordPress 7.0.

1.0.6

• Fix: Renamed plugin slug and main file to match WordPress.org directory slug.
• Fix: Updated text domain to match plugin slug (dawsonyweb-client-tutorial-videos).
• Fix: Applied uniform dawscltu_ prefix to all globally-registered identifiers.

1.0.5

• Fix: Removed controls for features not included in the tutorial-management package.
• Fix: Updated plugin metadata and text domain for WordPress.org compliance.
• Fix: Kept the tutorial library, dashboard widget and Manage Tutorials settings as the tutorial-management screens.

1.0.4

• Fix: Watched state now persists correctly on page refresh (ID case-sensitivity bug).
• Fix: Admin tab input sanitisation improved (wp_unslash + sanitize_key).
• Fix: Global variable scoping in template (moved inside closure).
• Fix: Added caching to user progress database query.

1.0.0

• Initial release.
• Repeatable tutorial block manager with title, description, and video.
• Dashboard widget for quick tutorial access.
• Dedicated Tutorial Videos admin page with embedded video players.
• Role-based visibility settings.
• Drag-and-drop tutorial reordering.