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How to Make a Custom Dashboard Widget to Display Custom Notification from Admin?

I am looking for a way to achieve the following: A group of users 'students' They login to the site Each student can see a 'Custom Dashboard Widget(s)' Each widget will carry a personal message ...
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How to remove Broken Link Checker widget from admin menu

I'm trying to clean up the Admin Dashboard widgets so that only the administrator level users can see the various meta boxes, but no matter what i've tried the Broken Link Checker widget will not go ...
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Conflicting post edit options under dashboard

My dashboard( It is multisite Installation ) section for pages and posts conflicts with options when there are morethan 5 data fields . For example : I have these things under my Posts section in ...
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Does the 3.4.2 Dashboard have Chrome Frame headers?

A quick google search for "Wordpress Dashboard Chrome Frame" seems to indicate that 3.2 and up integrate Google Chrome Frame is included in the Dashboard, but I haven't been able to find anything ...
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Determine Registered Admin Menus

Is it possible to obtain a list of which Top Level Admin Menus have been registered via some plugin? I'm talking about menus registered with: add_menu_page();
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How to make an interface similar to multi-site for switching between multiple (single) sites for administrators?

I have a few WordPress sites and I want to make it easier to manage. I was thinking of being able to switch sites in the dashboard like WordPress multi-site, but when I was looking into it I see ...
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Customize Welcome Panel Plugin

I am trying to create custom welcome panel in dashboard for WP and can't see where I went wrong. It's not allowing me to add html. function custom_welcome_panel() { $customwelcome_panel = ...
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How to disable or hide “collapse menu”

Is there a code in functions.php that I can add to disable or hide "collapse menu" button? The one that is on the left side of the admin menu in the dashboard. I'd need it for both admin, authors, ...
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Dashboard widget custom positioning?

I cannot figure out how to arrange my custom widgets one left and one right. I'm using this code to create custom widgets: //Add my comments. Shows user his last 5 comments function ...
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display URL or permalink instead of page title in dashboard

Is there a way to display the page url or permalink instead of the page title on example.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page I am doing some A/B testing and some pages have the same title, but a ...
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Custom User Field in Dashboard Widget

I checked justin tadlocks custom profile field tutorial and wanted to add the field in the custom dashboard widget but it seems it's not working. I want to show all the user information in this ...
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WordPress' ALL post count info on its dashboard does not match phpMyAdmin's ALL post count!

While phpmyadmin's wp_posts table reports something like this Showing rows 0 - 29 (10,223 total, Query took 0.0022 sec) SQL query: SELECT * FROM `wp_posts` LIMIT 0 , 30 Wordpress's dashboard ...
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Force page to open in html mode

Hi I have a page that always gets messed up when opening in Visual mode, can I force this particular page to always open in HTML mode for all users in the dashboard?
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How to Change the Categories Order in the Admin Dashboard?

The order of categories on dashboard is alphabetical. Can I change it to custom order?
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WordPress dashboard is slooow. Front end is fast

Every aspect of my dashboard is slow--it can take 30-60 seconds to get a list of pages, or to updated a post. Yet, the front end is fast. I checked all the plugins--no problem there. I deactivated ...
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Reset positions of metaboxes in admin

I am writing a theme and in it I have a function which creates two metaboxes. The forth parameter of the "add_meta_box()" function I used can be set to ( high, core, default or low). I want the boxes ...
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Disable dashboard drag&drop

I need to disable drag&drop functionality for dashboard widgets. This should be realized with jquery, just as it is for the dashboard_browser_nag. I'm no jquery expert - so can anybody tell me ...
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Add multiple images to author profile page

I'm developing a directory style theme using multi-site and each new author needs to be able to upload 5-10 photos to be displayed in their profile page. Is there any way of doing this? I don't mind ...
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Allow user access to Dashboard only!

Update: This snippet below removes the menu also for my admin account: function remove_menu_items() { global $menu; global $user_ID; if( $user_ID ) : /* Dashboard only acccess ...
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Adding an editable field to template?

I'm making a theme for a client (first time using Wordpress), and the client would like to have multiple site "descriptions" to be available. The first one as the main description, and the second one ...
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Plugin: Google Analytics for Dashboard error - Timestamp is too far from current time

Has anyone used the Google Analytics for Dashboard plugin? I've installed it successfully, but whenever I try to link it to my Google Account using the Start Login Process button, I keep getting a ...
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Dashboard - get status and position of metaboxes and pass them to ajax method

I'm wondering if it's possible to get status and position of metaboxes added to a dashboard-like page. The main page of my plugin has several metaboxes laying in a two-columns page and a "table of ...
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Make sub menu items a main link in the admin menu using fuctions.php

I am trying to customize the admin area using the functions.php file to make things easier for my clients. One request I have got before and hope to be able to accomplish, is to move some of the sub ...
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Easy lightbox effect inside of dashboard widget

I've got a dashboard widget that pulls from an RSS feed on my central server and allows anyone using my theme to see newly available skins. Using the dashboard widget, I'm currently presenting a ...
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RSS dashboard widget not showing visuals

I am using a RSS feeds widget on my dashboard as shown in this Q&A. Problem is feeds doesn't show up any visual like images or videos. I verified this by looking raw feeds which I used. Here is a ...
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Continuous Login Sessions For Super Admins Across Multi-Site Network of Sites

I've looked around on WPSE, and WordPress.org and Google. Can't seem to find much information on this topic. Is it possible to enable continuous login sessions across all WordPress Multi-Site linked ...
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remove post and categories/tags count from right now dashboard widget

I know it is easily possible to add a post-type count for a custom post type to the right now dashboard widget. However I wonder if it is also possible to remove stuff from this widget. E.g. I ...
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How to create a dashboard widget for one user

I will start by warning you that my programming skill is limited. I need to create a dashboard widget that will display in the WP dashboard for the users with the user_id=21. So far I have tried the ...
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wp-admin does not redirect to dashboard

I have a weird problem, which I could not solve yet. I installed wordpress 3.4.1 and made an own template. I use one plugin - qTranslate. Everything is fine on my local copy and also on my dev copy ...
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Inserting images in multiple posts native gallery

I am trying to find a solution to a problem that Wordpress seems to lack. Here is a scenario: I have uploaded images to a post using the native gallery to display the images. These images then ...
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Avoid updating post when sending POST or GET request to post.php

I've created a Plugin which adds a new meta-box on the post.php dashboard page, containing a form. Whenever a POST request is submitted from that form, I would like to save some post meta-data. I ...
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Modifying the built-in behavior of ajax tag type-ahead functionality of WordPress

Currently, it takes 3 characters to be entered into the tags, before WordPress can start suggesting matching tags. Where do I make it so it instantly starts those suggestions? I've got a 100's of ...
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Add a banner to the Dashboard

Is there a way to add a banner to the WP dashboard? I don't mean in a custom widget or anything, just a simple image banner.
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Remove “You are using Wordpress 3.2.1” from Right Now Dashboard Widget

I'm looking for a to hide the text on the dashboard that says "You are using WordPress 3.2.1" in the Right Now widget. Not that we don't love WordPress, but for our use-case (where we'll be providing ...
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Can I add/replace the Wordpress image in the Dashboard

Is it possible to change the Wordpress logo and header in the Dashboard so I can customise it a little more to my business? Ideally it could be done in a way so that it wouldn't break every time I ...
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Sync User to cPanel webmail?

I have a client who's site is built using WordPress. The account is using cPanel with webmail accessible at domain.com/webmail. They have 2 email accounts setup (user1@domain.com and ...
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Multiple columns in add/edit post/page? [closed]

If you go to the WP main Dashboard page, the screen options allow you to have 1-4 columns for the screen layout. When you get to the Add/Edit Post/Page pages (/wp-admin/post-new.php and ...
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“Discussion” checkboxes unchecked by default on pages? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: setting comments off as default for pages and custom post types? When I create a new page, I want these two checkboxes (from the "Discussion" meta box) to appear ...
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How to position custom dashboard widgets on side column

My Question: Is it possible to add custom dashboard widgets in the right hand column instead of only on the left hands side? I use wp_add_dashboard_plugin( $widget_id, $widget_name, $callback, ...
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load-* hook for dashboard

I'm trying to add a screen option to the dashboard screen. I have a function like: my_function() { ... add_screen_option() ... } Now, I need to know the correct action hook $hook to ...
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How to insert category list into post creation page, and retrieve chosen categories?

I would like to display the full list of categories on the Page creation page, so that the user can pick using checkboxes which category posts should appear on that page. I then need to retrieve ...
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Change labels on 'Nickname' and 'Biographical Info' in user-edit.php

For a project I'm working on, I want to change the labels of the 'Nickname' and 'Biographical Info' fields on edit profile (user-edit.php) page in the dashboard. I still want to use those fields as ...
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Good solution for adding jQuery tabs anywhere within WordPress?

Is there any solution for using jQuery tabs within the native WordPress scripts? If you know of a way to get any method of jQuery tabs working on the frontend and the backend please share your ...
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Grabbing how many posts by month for a dashboard widget

I am trying to develop a dashboard widget that counts posts or post types by month. I am really not sure how to go about doing this. I know how to create a dashboard widget and all that with post ...
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Can I limit this meta box to a particular page?

I am using a version of this (http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/meta-box-script-for-wordpress/) meta box script but I want to be able to limit which edit screen a meta box shows. For example, if I only ...
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Custom Role does not have access to dashboard

I was just adding a custom role by using the add_role() function. Here is the code below: add_role('user', 'User', array('read')); I figured this would give the same level of access as the ...
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Remove “Content” and “Discussion” from Right Now Dashboard Widget

How do I hide "Content" and "Discussion" element in the "Right Now" dashboard widget? Here's a screenshot:
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How to redirect non admins to homepage if trying to view mysite.com/wp-admin/?

I want all my users (contributors and authors too) but the admin to be redirected to the homepage if they try to view mysite.com/wp-admin/. Contributors and Authors must be able to add and edit posts ...
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Where are the files that control the multisite user dashboard?

In multisite where are the files that control the dashboard for the multisite user admin? Also where are the files for the normal, standard, wordpress admin dashboard? I want to tweak the mu user ...
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Custom order categories in admin dashboard

everyone, is there way to order categories in add/edit post in admin dashboard. The problem is my order must be custom, not by Name or ID. For example: Rumors (id 5) News (id 1) Features (id 7) etc. ...