Is it possible to get rid of admin new updates notifications?

Try this: http://www.vooshthemes.com/blog/wordpress-tip/wordpress-quick-tip-remove-the-dashboard-update-message/ which seems to work good for 2.9- versions //Copied from the above referenced article remove_action(‘wp_version_check’, ‘wp_version_check’); remove_action(‘admin_init’, ‘_maybe_update_core’); add_filter(‘pre_transient_update_core’, create_function( ‘$a’, “return null;”)); For 2.9+ try this: http://www.wpinsite.com/code-snippets/remove-wordpress-dashboard-update-notification-message/ add_action(‘admin_menu’,’foo_hide_update’); function foo_hide_update() { remove_action( ‘admin_notices’, ‘update_nag’, 3 ); }

Removing the advanced menu properties

This is a core function in wp-admin/includes/nav-menu.php. You can either hide the items with CSS or use the myEASYhider plugin here. IIRC, in order to actually override core functions, it must be done from a plugin rather than functions.php, so either way you’ll be using a plugin that could potentially be turned off by the … Read more

Hiding the media-new.php File URL option via jQuery

This is because those elements aren’t present when the page is finished loading, they’re inserted later on using javascript. Try hooking into #media-items and running your code when new elements are inserted rather than when the root element is ready.

Remove “minor-publishing” div from Publish admin metabox

In short- no. The html in question is hard-coded in the post_submit_meta_box callback function. You can, of course de-register the publish metabox and re-register your own which mimics post_submit_meta_box (but making your alterations) and being sure to keep the names of the inputs exactly the same. This method has been outlined the following posts where … Read more

WordPress blog code format

You need to wrap your code in either code or pre tags. code is for when inline code in a sentence e.g. include(“hello.php”) whereas pre is for preformatted blocks of text e.g.: function hello_world(){ echo ‘hello world’; } For code highlighting etc, you’ll need to look for plugins. The easiest way of using these tags … Read more