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Add my own button next to “Screen options” and “Help” in the admin

The HTML echo ‘<div id=”screen-meta-links”>’; echo ‘ <div id=”contextual-help-link-wrap” class=”hide-if-no-js screen-meta-toggle”>’; echo ‘ <a href=”#” id=”your-own-button” class=”show-settings”>Text for your button</a>’; echo ‘ </div>’; echo ‘</div>’; echo ‘<br style=”clera:both” />’; echo ‘<div id=”your-button-content” class=”your-button-hide”>’; // your content goes here echo ‘</div>’; And you need some custom JavaScript jQuery(document).ready( function($){ $( ‘.your-button-hide’ ).each( function(e){ $( this ).hide(); … Read more

How can I make an Ajax login form work with FORCE_SSL_ADMIN enabled?

There are ways of doing it; this way, for instance. My guess is that Login With Ajax isn’t using all of the techniques described in that article, and some browser security feature is blocking it. Try getting in touch with the developer and suggesting improvements, with a pointer to that article.

3.3: How do you hide the new dashboard welcome panel?

If you’re using multisite, there’s a plugin you can network activate to disable the welcome panel on all new sites. It’s aptly named “Hide Welcome Panel for Multisite.” If you just want to do this for a typical (single site) installation, it’s also pretty easy. The welcome screen is shown for a user if a … Read more

How to obtain the user ID of the current profile being edited in WP-Admin?

There is a global variable called … $user_id available on that page. Always. From user-edit.php: $user_id = (int) $user_id; $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); if ( ! defined( ‘IS_PROFILE_PAGE’ ) ) define( ‘IS_PROFILE_PAGE’, ( $user_id == $current_user->ID ) ); if ( ! $user_id && IS_PROFILE_PAGE ) $user_id = $current_user->ID; elseif ( ! $user_id && ! IS_PROFILE_PAGE ) … Read more

Plugin to remove Admin menu items based on user role?

Update: reading mike’s answer again got me thinking that you can add a new capability to a role and use that as you removal condition, so: // first add your role the capability like so // get the “author” role object $role = get_role( ‘administrator’ ); // add “see_all_menus” to this role object $role->add_cap( ‘see_all_menus’ … Read more

Load plugin scripts and styles only on plugin page

When you register a plugin option page you get a hook from the registration function: $hook = add_menu_page( ‘T5 Demo’, // page title ‘T5 Demo’, // menu title ‘manage_options’, // capability ‘t5-demo’, // menu slug ‘my_render_page’ // callback function ); Use this hook to enqueue the scripts and styles: add_action( “admin_print_styles-$hook”, “my_enqueue_style” ); add_action( “admin_print_scripts-$hook”, … Read more

How to disable the “Your site has updated to WordPress x.y.z” admin email?

In your functions.php add: add_filter( ‘auto_core_update_send_email’, ‘__return_false’ );

How to remove list view from media library?

This is a little hacky, but doesn’t require you to edit core files, which you should never do, as you are aware. add_action(‘admin_init’, function() { $_GET[‘mode’] = ‘grid’; }, 100); This will always force the mode into grid view. What it does not do, it does not remove the List View icon it does not … Read more

Change admin bar to default:off

add_action(“user_register”, “set_user_admin_bar_false_by_default”, 10, 1); function set_user_admin_bar_false_by_default($user_id) { update_user_meta( $user_id, ‘show_admin_bar_front’, ‘false’ ); update_user_meta( $user_id, ‘show_admin_bar_admin’, ‘false’ ); } Place in theme functions file or you can make into a plugin. Once user registers it will go and set the users admin bar prefs to false. The user can then, once logged in, set this to … Read more

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