Is it possible to get rid of admin new updates notifications?

Try this: http://www.vooshthemes.com/blog/wordpress-tip/wordpress-quick-tip-remove-the-dashboard-update-message/ which seems to work good for 2.9- versions //Copied from the above referenced article remove_action(‘wp_version_check’, ‘wp_version_check’); remove_action(‘admin_init’, ‘_maybe_update_core’); add_filter(‘pre_transient_update_core’, create_function( ‘$a’, “return null;”)); For 2.9+ try this: http://www.wpinsite.com/code-snippets/remove-wordpress-dashboard-update-notification-message/ add_action(‘admin_menu’,’foo_hide_update’); function foo_hide_update() { remove_action( ‘admin_notices’, ‘update_nag’, 3 ); }

Removing the advanced menu properties

This is a core function in wp-admin/includes/nav-menu.php. You can either hide the items with CSS or use the myEASYhider plugin here. IIRC, in order to actually override core functions, it must be done from a plugin rather than functions.php, so either way you’ll be using a plugin that could potentially be turned off by the … Read more

Hiding the media-new.php File URL option via jQuery

This is because those elements aren’t present when the page is finished loading, they’re inserted later on using javascript. Try hooking into #media-items and running your code when new elements are inserted rather than when the root element is ready.

What would cause edit buttons for plugins to disappear?

Edit buttons display only when the necessary file permissions are acquired by PHP. http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-plugins-list-table.php#L380 is_writable(WP_PLUGIN_DIR . “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” . $plugin_file) current_user_can(‘edit_plugins’) will always return false if the DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT flag is set to true (recommended) in the configuration, no matter if you’re the administrator or not. http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-includes/capabilities.php#L1118

Remove “minor-publishing” div from Publish admin metabox

In short- no. The html in question is hard-coded in the post_submit_meta_box callback function. You can, of course de-register the publish metabox and re-register your own which mimics post_submit_meta_box (but making your alterations) and being sure to keep the names of the inputs exactly the same. This method has been outlined the following posts where … Read more

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