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Displaying Custom Post Types In “At A Glance” Meta Box

Here is the function that I use to display CPT in the “At a glance” widget add_action( ‘dashboard_glance_items’, ‘cpad_at_glance_content_table_end’ ); function cpad_at_glance_content_table_end() { $args = array( ‘public’ => true, ‘_builtin’ => false ); $output=”object”; $operator=”and”; $post_types = get_post_types( $args, $output, $operator ); foreach ( $post_types as $post_type ) { $num_posts = wp_count_posts( $post_type->name ); $num … Read more

Reset positions of metaboxes in admin

In you PhpMyAdmin query for: (if you have a different database prefix, change that in the query, also change the user_id to yours) SELECT * FROM `wp_usermeta` WHERE `user_id` =1 AND `meta_key` LIKE ‘meta-box%’ Than delete those values and you will get the original order back. If you only want to change the menu order … Read more

WordPress dashboard, viewing CPT results in 504

The CPT and taxonomy terms are created via plugin. I was able to lessen the query by adding the following to my plugin: add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘nwtd_lpfs_custom_admin_query’ ); function nwtd_lpfs_custom_admin_query( $query ) { if( !is_admin() && !$query->is_main_query() ) { return; } if( is_post_type_archive( ‘services’ ) ) { $query->set(‘no_found_rows’, 1 ); $query->set(‘update_post_meta_cache’, 0 ); $query->set(‘update_post_term_cache’, 0 ); … Read more

Why not register shortcodes if is_admin dashboard?

I have observed the same issue with contact-form-7 a while back. But note that registering shortcodes based on is_admin is doing_it_wrong (see gmazzap`s answer) There are the two reasons that seem legitimate at first sight (and why they are wrong): (Unlikely) The plugin author tried to optimize the script to only register shortcodes when they … Read more

How to Change the Default Home Page for the WordPress Dashboard?

Easy enough, decided to just do the redirect option. I used the wp_login action hook. You could also probably use this for redirecting your users to ANY page on your website. You can also check user capabilities from the $user Object passed in as a function parameter if you want to send different user levels … Read more

Move excerpt meta box to above content editor

It’s simple, just unregister postexcerpt box first then add another one on the top. Here is my code add_action( ‘admin_menu’, function () { remove_meta_box(‘postexcerpt’, ‘post’, ‘normal’); }, 999 ); add_action(‘edit_form_after_title’, ‘post_excerpt_meta_box’);

How to fix the admin menu margin-top bug in WordPress 5.5?

I ran into that issue too, and it turns out that it was because there actually was an error that wasn’t displaying. Once I fixed that underlying error, the top margin problem went away. This is in wp-admin/admin-header.php: // Print a CSS class to make PHP errors visible. if ( error_get_last() && WP_DEBUG && WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY … Read more

Determining WordPress’ Version from the Host’s Command Line?

Just run this grep command from the command line: grep wp_version wp-includes/version.php

Add screen options to custom admin pages

You don’t need to invent a new screen option row. Just use proper metaboxes. Currently, you are drawing pseudo-metaboxes: <!– Post status start–> <div class = “postbox”> <div class = “handlediv”> <br> </div> <h3 class = “hndle”><span><?php _e(“By Post Status”, ‘bulk-delete’); ?></span></h3> <div class = “inside”> <h4><?php _e(“Select the posts which you want to delete”, … Read more

How do I remove dashboard access from specific user roles?

To lock subscribers and contributors out of the admin: function wpse23007_redirect(){ if( is_admin() && !defined(‘DOING_AJAX’) && ( current_user_can(‘subscriber’) || current_user_can(‘contributor’) ) ){ wp_redirect(home_url()); exit; } } add_action(‘init’,’wpse23007_redirect’); Hope that helps. All roles give the user a capability that is the name of that role, so you can use any role name as a capability.

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