I am not 100% certain if you are looking for a way to remove the Meta-boxes? If so, following plugin could solve your ‘issue’. (please backup and so on …) /** * Remove Dashboard widgets * * @version WordPress 4.6.1 */ add_action( ‘wp_dashboard_setup’, ‘wpse241195_disable_dashboard_widgets’ ); function wpse241195_disable_dashboard_widgets() { remove_meta_box( ‘dashboard_incoming_links’, ‘dashboard’, ‘normal’ ); // Incoming … Read more
You can add featured image thumbnail in post column with this code. Copied from here Add Featured Post Thumbnails to WordPress Admin Post Columns. Haven’t tried it myself but it must work. add_image_size( ‘admin-list-thumb’, 80, 80, false ); // add featured thumbnail to admin post columns function wpcs_add_thumbnail_columns( $columns ) { $columns = array( ‘cb’ … Read more
Check if you or a plugin include bootstrap and the bootstrap CSS / Theme files. Bootstraps .hidden class looks like: .hidden { display: none !important; } But overrides wordpress’ definition of .hidden: .hidden { display: none; } The Top ‘Help’ & ‘Screen Options’ bars are displayed via inline style display: block, which is overridden by … Read more
global $wp_meta_boxes returns NULL
You basically have two options: Use any of the available File Manager plugins for WordPress. Just Google them, literally that phrase I just used. Implement a custom PHP code in your theme or custom plugin which will utilize any of the PHP functions for manipulating the files. For example, check these: file_get_contents() – For reading … Read more
After a lot of testing and considerable frustration, I discovered the problem. I am including this solution in the hope that it saves someone else a lot of frustration if they encounter a similar problem. The problem to be the presence of a PHP closing tag ‘?> ‘ in the functions.php file of the child-theme. … Read more
Inside your add_meta_boxex hook callback function, you will have an add_meta_box() call. Wrap that call in a conditional, using data from the $post global (I’m fairly certain it is available in edit.php). For example, you could use either the Page ID or slug. Page ID: global $post; if ( ‘123’ == $post->ID ) { // … Read more
Hook into admin_head, the last action before the menu is rendered, and change the global $menu: add_action( ‘admin_head’, ‘wpse_71303_change_menu_cap’ ); /** * Change the capability to access an admin menu item. * * @wp-hook admin_head * @return void */ function wpse_71303_change_menu_cap() { global $menu; foreach ( $menu as $key => $item ) { // Find … Read more
This is pretty easy to do with the Dashboard Widgets API http://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Widgets_API. Here are the steps I would take to create this: Queue up a jQuery script for AJAX handling Create a PHP AJAX function and corresponding AJAX hook for saving the form data Create the dashboard widget with HTML form input(s) Here’s a sample … Read more
If you would like to code it yourself, here is a good tutorial for customizing the Admin Menu. http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/how-to-customize-the-wordpress-admin-area/ Copying from the tutorial, they remove the Editor sublink: function remove_editor_menu() { remove_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘_add_themes_utility_last’, 101); } add_action(‘_admin_menu’, ‘remove_editor_menu’, 1); note: you need to know the function / action that displays it