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Setting admin edit panels & metaboxes positions and visibility for ALL users and admins

You can remove the default meta boxes with remove_meta_box and re-add them in a different position with add_meta_box: add_action(‘do_meta_boxes’, ‘wpse33063_move_meta_box’); function wpse33063_move_meta_box(){ remove_meta_box( ‘postimagediv’, ‘post’, ‘side’ ); add_meta_box(‘postimagediv’, __(‘Featured Image’), ‘post_thumbnail_meta_box’, ‘post’, ‘normal’, ‘high’); } The answer above is from the following thread: How to change default position of WP meta boxes? UPDATE If the … 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

Search posts by ID in admin

Not sure i understand why you’d want to query by ID, but that said it’s possible in a hacky kind of way(i like this method because it’s simple). add_action( ‘parse_request’, ‘idsearch’ ); function idsearch( $wp ) { global $pagenow; // If it’s not the post listing return if( ‘edit.php’ != $pagenow ) return; // If … Read more

if admin is logged in

current_user_can will accept a role name but, sadly, the behavior with roles is not entirely consistent. The following should work and is simpler than what you have, by a little bit. $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); if (user_can( $current_user, ‘administrator’ )) { // user is an admin }

Admin: very slow edit page caused by core meta query

If you want to test your custom SQL to see how it affects the loading time, you can try this query swapping: /** * Restrict the potential slow query in the meta_form() to the current post ID. * * @see http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/187712/26350 */ add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes_post’, function( $post ) { add_filter( ‘query’, function( $sql ) use ( … Read more

How to pass parameters to admin_notices?

I think a better implementation would be a “message” class e.g.: class WPSE_224485_Message { private $_message; function __construct( $message ) { $this->_message = $message; add_action( ‘admin_notices’, array( $this, ‘render’ ) ); } function render() { printf( ‘<div class=”updated”>%s</div>’, $this->_message ); } } This allows you to instantiate the message at any time prior to rendering: … Read more

How can I speed up my WP admin section?

jQuery / JavaScript in the footer One thing you can do is to move jQuery to the footer blog post. It’s per default not needed in the header. You will have check if everything still works tough, as I normally just do that for themes: <?php /* Plugin Name: Move jQuery to the footer */ … 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.

How to remove entire admin menu?

The correct hook to use is admin_menu and then create a function to remove the menus you want to remove. The following 2 functions remove all the menus. add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_admin_menus’ ); add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_admin_submenus’ ); //Remove top level admin menus function remove_admin_menus() { remove_menu_page( ‘edit-comments.php’ ); remove_menu_page( ‘link-manager.php’ ); remove_menu_page( ‘tools.php’ ); remove_menu_page( ‘plugins.php’ … Read more

How does admin-ajax.php work?

admin-ajax.php is part of the WordPress AJAX API, and yes, it does handle requests from both backend and front. Try not to worry about the fact that it is in wp-admin. I think that is a strange place for it too, but it is not a security problem in itself. How this relates to “enumerate … Read more

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