Removing a widget via theme editor

You should be able to remove the widget from Apperances > Widgets page on your WordPress menu. Have you tried that yet? Also, if you are using the Genesis theme from StudioPress, you and can’t find a suitable way to remove it, try inspecting the widget element, see what CSS ID or class is controlling … Read more

Bash script to check available updates

WP-CLI and AWK One way is to do the counting of the available string in the third column via AWK: wp plugin list | \ awk ‘BEGIN{N=0;} \ ($3==”available”){N++; print $0;} \ END{print(N>0)?”Plugin updates available: “N:”No plugin updates available”;}’ where N is the number of available updates, in case you need the number, $0 is … Read more

Hide Plugin Custom Post Type Menu Link

Those methods that you were using, remove the page totally. If you were the plugin author I would suggest to create the admin page calling add_submenu_page with a parent id of null. Since you can’t change the plugin code the only way to achieve this is using CSS. Read this ticket for more information about … Read more