A Tour Of The Dashboard
A quick walkthrough of the Protuno admin menu, what each section does and where to find the key controls after your first install.
After activating Protuno, a new Protuno item appears in the WordPress admin sidebar. Every feature in the plugin is organized under this menu. This page walks you through what each section contains so you know where to go for what.
The Protuno Admin Menu
| Menu item | What you find here |
|---|---|
| Theme Builder | Create and manage site-wide templates: headers, footers, single post layouts, archive pages, WooCommerce templates, and 404 pages |
| Form Submissions | View every submission from forms built inside Proton widgets, with read/unread status, filtering by form name, and CSV export |
| Global Style | Manage site-wide CSS variables, typography classes, and layout utilities that apply across all Proton widgets |
| Role Manager | Set access levels for each WordPress user role, which modes they can use (content editing only, full design access, or none) and which features they can reach (Theme Builder, Global Style, AI chat) |
| White Label | Replace Protuno's name, logo, and plugin description with your own branding for client deliveries |
| Settings | Plugin-level toggles: enable or disable form submission storage, configure AI provider connections, and manage your Pro license |
Theme Builder
Go here to build any template that applies across your site, not just an individual page. Click + Add New to choose a template type: Header, Footer, Single (Post/Page), Archive, Single Product, Products Archive, Search Results, or 404 Page.
Templates you build here use the same Proton widget. Everything you learn about building sections applies to building templates.
Form Submissions
Every time a visitor submits a form built with Protuno (using the data-atom-form attribute in a Proton widget), the submission is captured here. You can:
- View the submitted data for each entry
- Filter by form name or by read/unread status
- Mark submissions as read
- Export submissions to CSV
Form submission storage can be turned on or off under Settings.
Global Style
The Global Style manager holds one style block that lives in your site's <head>. Everything you add here, CSS custom properties, typography classes, layout utilities, is available on every page that has an active Protuno template or widget.
Typical things to define here:
- Color variables (
--color-brand,--color-text) - Typography classes (
.text-heading-h1,.text-body) - Spacing and layout utilities (
.pr-boxedfor max-width containers)
Any Proton widget can then use these values, keeping your design consistent site-wide.
Role Manager
Protuno has three access levels for WordPress user roles:
- None: the user cannot see or use Protuno at all
- Content: the user can update text, images, and links through the Elementor panel but cannot open the code editor or AI chat
- Full: the user has complete access to all editing modes
Administrators always have Full access regardless of what Role Manager says.
You can also control three feature toggles per role: whether the role can use the Theme Builder, the Global Style manager, and the AI chat.
White Label
If you are delivering a site to a client, White Label lets you replace all Protuno branding, the admin menu name, the plugin listing name and description, the widget name in Elementor, and the dashboard logo, with your own product identity.
A Force Disable switch is also available here. Turning it on hides Protuno completely from the client's dashboard. To restore access, deactivate and reactivate the plugin.
Settings
The Settings page has two main areas:
Form Submissions: A toggle to enable or disable database storage for form submissions. When off, submissions are still processed (emails sent, webhooks fired) but nothing is stored in the database.
License: Where you enter and activate your Protuno Pro license key. Once activated, Pro features unlock in the dashboard.
Frequently Asked Questions
I do not see Global Style, Role Manager, or White Label in my menu. These are Protuno Pro features. Install and activate Protuno Pro to access them.
Where do I connect an AI provider? Go to Protuno → Settings and look for the AI configuration section. You can enter an API key for supported providers there.
Can I rename the Protuno menu item? Yes, using the White Label feature (Pro). You can change the menu name to anything you want.