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Allow admin login at /admin

another option – redirect /admin/ to wp-login.php with a parse_query action hook: function wpa53048_parse_query( $query ){ if( $query->query_vars[‘pagename’] == ‘admin’ ): wp_redirect( wp_login_url() ); exit; endif; } add_action( ‘parse_query’, ‘wpa53048_parse_query’ ); EDIT Well the above apparently only works with certain permalink structures. Here’s another method hooked to parse_request: function wpa53048_parse_request( $query ){ if( $query->request == … Read more

AJAX request on the frontend always returns 0 if user is not admin

As mmm didn’t post an answer but just wrote a comment, here is the answer: As the documentation for wp_ajax states in its notes, the hook only fires for logged in users. If you want to use an ajax call on the frontend for users that are not logged in, you have to use the … Read more

Can I set a default dashboard layout for all users?

Hi @Relequestual: I think what you want is here: Dashboard Widgets API / Advanced: Forcing your widget to the top It doesn’t require you to change code per se, just to add the code like shown in the WordPress Codex to your theme’s functions.php file which is a standard way to customize and/or extend WordPress: … Read more

front end logo upload like happytables

I actually wrote this for Happy Tables so should be able to give you a couple of pointers, though I don’t have time to go into too much depth at the moment. We use this “image well” on tables tables a fair bit, it’s basically the drag/drop upload from the WordPress upload. Similar to something … Read more

How can we customize the logo and some text on the welcome screen?

Whenever we find ourselves in the situation “there must be a way to overcome this hard-code“, jQuery comes to rescue… The Result The Code The following code must be pasted at the end of the active Theme functions.php file. Or it can be used in a custom plugin, which will make the code “theme-independent”. add_action(‘admin_head-index.php’, … Read more

How to change WordPress default strings?

Additionally to kaiser’s answer, you can load customized .mo files that overrides the original file using load_textdomain_mofile filter. For example: add_filter( ‘load_textdomain_mofile’, ‘cyb_filter_load_textdomain_mofile’, 10, 2 ); function cyb_filter_load_textdomain_mofile( $mofile, $domain ) { if ( $domain == ‘some-textdomain-to-override’ ) { $mofile = WP_LANG_DIR . ‘/overrides/’ . basename( $mofile ); } return $mofile; } It may be … Read more

use add_settings_field properly?

Documentation for add_settings_field() Says following: You MUST register any options used by this function with register_setting() or they won’t be saved and updated automatically.

Custom order of terms for custom taxonomy in admin and website

Still looking myself. After some exploring I decided to use the Term Menu Order plugin by @jameslafferty. This will add menu_order to the terms table and can be used across taxonomies and templates. @TheDeadMedic seems to have enhanced this functionality over here, discussing a similar issue.

How can I log a user out of WordPress before the page loads?

This should do it: add_action(‘plugins_loaded’, function(){ wp_set_current_user(0); },0);

Disable the post save process completely

function disable_save( $maybe_empty, $postarr ) { $maybe_empty = true; return $maybe_empty; } add_filter( ‘wp_insert_post_empty_content’, ‘disable_save’, 999999, 2 ); Because wp_insert_post_empty_content is set to true, WordPress thinks there is no title and no content and stops updating the post. EDIT: An even shorter variant would be: add_filter( ‘wp_insert_post_empty_content’, ‘__return_true’, PHP_INT_MAX -1, 2 );

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