Is it possible to hide the dashboard completely from the Non-admin users and give them access to only New post and edit posts page? Thanks. 4 s 4 As far as ease of use, especially for WordPress Admins not too firm in PHP, I second brasoflo’s plugin recommendation (Adminimize). For the sake of completeness, this … Read more
Is there a way to have “Pages” set as the default tab when the user logs in to the admin area? I am using a heavily customised set up, where none of the dashboard widgets are useful so they are hidden anyway. 3 s 3 The best way is to re-direct user logins to your … Read more
I have a custom menu using add_menu_page: add_menu_page(‘My menu’ , ‘Some text’, ‘read’, ‘nwcm’); Under it, I show a custom post type menu item; // Create the news custom post type register_post_type(‘nwcm_news’, array( ‘labels’ => array( ‘name’ => __(‘News for clients’, NWCM_TEXT_DOMAIN) , ‘singular_name’ => __(‘News’, NWCM_TEXT_DOMAIN) ) , ‘public’ => true, ‘has_archive’ => true, … Read more
I found the following snippet will displays the number of Custom Post Types published in Dashboard’s At A Glance widget, like this: Is there a way to turn that “81 Wrestlers” text to a link to the post types list. Here’s the code: add_filter( ‘dashboard_glance_items’, ‘custom_glance_items’, 10, 1 ); function custom_glance_items( $items = array() ) … Read more
I am writing a theme and in it I have a function which creates two metaboxes. The forth parameter of the “add_meta_box()” function I used can be set to ( high, core, default or low). I want the boxes to appear in a particular order ( ie order within one of these 4 groups – … Read more
I created a custom post type with a custom taxonomy. I have about 1500 posts all of which are assigned to some sort of taxonomy term…some being assigned to 200+ terms. I noticed that from the dashboard, it takes an extremely long amount of time to view the custom post types, most of the time … Read more
I have noticed that some plugins such as Contact-form-7, Nextgen-gallery, possibly others, have an interesting anti-feature of not registering their shortcodes when is_admin() is true. The problematic thing is, if you want to generate some dynamic content (which may have shortcode) from ajax, and use the “correct” wp way of doing it, admin-ajax.php, it is … Read more
Is it possible to change the Default “Home” admin page when logging into the WordPress Dashboard? I thought about a couple of possibilities… Substitute the content on the Dashboard home page with custom content. Redirect to a different admin page within the WordPress Dashboard upon successful login. If it is possible to do either of … Read more
I found a WordPress hook called “edit_form_after_title” to add a text box after the title. How can I use this hook to display the excerpt after the title while creating a new post? 4 s 4 It’s simple, just unregister postexcerpt box first then add another one on the top. Here is my code add_action( … Read more
I recently updated a WordPress instance from 5.4 to 5.5 to end up with an annoying margin-top in the admin area, above the menu directly. I deactivated all plugins, switched themes, did some inspection, and I ended up with some findings. The CSS class causing the margin-top is .php-error, which is appended to #adminmenuwrap when … Read more
