Dashboard links not working

Those links are supposed to show submenus. If they are not showing up, that usually means your theme has a conflict with our plugin (90% of the time, this is boostrap). Please check our documentation about conflicts with Bootstrap as well as our FAQ entry about that.

How can I hide certain submenus of the Settings tab in the dashboard?

If you would like to code it yourself, here is a good tutorial for customizing the Admin Menu. http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/how-to-customize-the-wordpress-admin-area/ Copying from the tutorial, they remove the Editor sublink: function remove_editor_menu() { remove_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘_add_themes_utility_last’, 101); } add_action(‘_admin_menu’, ‘remove_editor_menu’, 1); note: you need to know the function / action that displays it

WordPress dashboard is slooow. Front end is fast

Try this link: WordPress Support It suggests these 7 steps about half way down: Manually run /wp-admin/upgrade.php (visit it in your browser). Try decativating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause. Try switching to the Twenty Ten theme to rule-out a theme-specific issue. Download WordPress again … Read more

Reorder dashboard widgets

Clearing things up First, there’s a slight misunderstanding. wp_dashboard_setup is an action and not a filter. If it would be a filter, it would have one or multiple arguments and would need to return the first one. How-To #1 For an example of this action, see the following mu-plugin I use: <?php /** * Plugin … Read more

How to disable or hide “collapse menu”

Here is a simple css display: none function, it just adds some css in the html, if there are more stuff that you want to hide i recommend you to add a new css-file with the function admin_enqueue_scripts function wpse_remove_collapse() { echo ‘<style type=”text/css”>#collapse-menu { display: none; visibility: hidden; }</style>’; } add_action(‘admin_head’, ‘wpse_remove_collapse’);

“You have the latest version of WordPress. Future security updates will be applied automatically.”

Since version 3.7 WordPress has automatic background updates. By default, only minor releases – such as for maintenance and security purposes – and translation file updates are enabled on most sites. In special cases, plugins and themes may be updated. Of course, as with many things in WP, you can modify that behavior with config … Read more

Make sub menu items a main link in the admin menu using fuctions.php

OK, it’s a bit messy, but it works. Take a look function remove_submenus() { global $submenu; unset($submenu[‘themes.php’][10]); // Removes Menu } add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_submenus’); function new_nav_menu () { global $menu; $menu[99] = array(”, ‘read’, ‘separator’, ”, ‘menu-top menu-nav’); add_menu_page(__(‘Nav Menus’, ‘mav-menus’), __(‘Nav Menus’, ‘nav-menus’), ‘edit_themes’, ‘nav-menus.php’, ”, 99); } add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘new_nav_menu’); Essentially it is removing the … Read more

Editor access to plugin settings

Unfortunately, the plugin author did not leave room for a filter. But I did request one for you here. I suggested changing: /* Add option page */ function cd_setting_page(){ add_options_page( ‘Commenter data Settings’, ‘Commenter data Settings’, ‘administrator’, ‘commenterdata-settings’, array( $this, ‘cd_renderer’ )); } to /* Add option page */ function cd_setting_page(){ $cap = apply_filters( ‘commenter_data_settings_page_capability_filter’, … Read more