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
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
Sorting by size Adding custom column and sorting by post_content length is possible. It won’t be very efficient though, I’m afraid. First you’ll have to add your custom column and display the length of content in there. I’ve assumed that you’re interested in trimmed content (so ‘ ‘ is still empty). Then you’ll have to … Read more
The following snippet removes the registered site health dashboard widget from the dashboard. Add the code to your plugin or functions.php file: add_action(‘wp_dashboard_setup’, ‘remove_site_health_dashboard_widget’); function remove_site_health_dashboard_widget() { remove_meta_box(‘dashboard_site_health’, ‘dashboard’, ‘normal’); }
When ordering or closing metaboxes, those actions require nonces, add the following to your code and see if that resolves the problem. <?php wp_nonce_field(‘closedpostboxes’, ‘closedpostboxesnonce’, false ); ?> <?php wp_nonce_field(‘meta-box-order’, ‘meta-box-order-nonce’, false ); ?> Additional: You should add metaboxes to your page using add_meta_box and output them using do_meta_boxes passing in the hook for your … Read more
Actually, it is not that hard. The last access time for a user is in get_user_meta( get_current_user_id(), ‘last_access’, TRUE ). The date of each comment is in the column comment_date. Both share the same format, so we can compare them in SQL with a simple >. There is an action in the Right Now dashboard … Read more
The reason that get_the_modified_author() is not working is that it relies on being used within the WordPress loop. wp_get_recent_posts() does not set up a global post object. Here is a complete example based on your original code that replaces get_the_modified_author() with some simple code to get the name of the last person who edited the … Read more
The short answer is: Use Query Strings. If you notice in the address bar immediately after you publish a Post… You will see something similar to this: domain.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4935&action=edit&message=6 There’s a few different Query Variables: post contains the ID of the Post being edited. action is saying we’re currently “editing” the Post. message refers to what … Read more
From this Q&A, I’ve learned about the global variable $wp_meta_boxes. And over there is also the code to remove the default meta boxes. After examining the variable, this is the code I wrote to remove all Dashboard Widgets, including the ones added by plugins: add_action(‘wp_dashboard_setup’, ‘wpse_73561_remove_all_dashboard_meta_boxes’, 9999 ); function wpse_73561_remove_all_dashboard_meta_boxes() { global $wp_meta_boxes; $wp_meta_boxes[‘dashboard’][‘normal’][‘core’] = … Read more
If you want to remove metaboxes from the dashboard page you can add this to functions.php function remove_dashboard_widgets () { remove_meta_box(‘dashboard_quick_press’,’dashboard’,’side’); //Quick Press widget remove_meta_box(‘dashboard_recent_drafts’,’dashboard’,’side’); //Recent Drafts remove_meta_box(‘dashboard_primary’,’dashboard’,’side’); //WordPress.com Blog remove_meta_box(‘dashboard_secondary’,’dashboard’,’side’); //Other WordPress News remove_meta_box(‘dashboard_incoming_links’,’dashboard’,’normal’); //Incoming Links remove_meta_box(‘dashboard_plugins’,’dashboard’,’normal’); //Plugins remove_meta_box(‘dashboard_right_now’,’dashboard’, ‘normal’); //Right Now remove_meta_box(‘rg_forms_dashboard’,’dashboard’,’normal’); //Gravity Forms remove_meta_box(‘dashboard_recent_comments’,’dashboard’,’normal’); //Recent Comments remove_meta_box(‘icl_dashboard_widget’,’dashboard’,’normal’); //Multi Language Plugin remove_meta_box(‘dashboard_activity’,’dashboard’, ‘normal’); … Read more