How to manually activate user in dashboard only by admin
We are using this wordpress plug in – New User Approve Provides functionality to approve/deny new user registrations.
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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
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 Arrange Posts by Size in the WordPress Dashboard?
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
How to remove the site health dashboard widget?
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’); }
Dashboard like meta boxes in my plugin – how to save their position and open/closed state?
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
show number of open comments on custom dashboard
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
How to display the user that published a pending post?
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
How to Make an admin_notices Message That Disappears Once the User Leaves That Particular Page?
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
How to Remove All Widgets from Dashboard?
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