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