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How to create a custom template to admin dashboard

I was trying to create a template to customize my WP admin dashboard, not only a css mod but a entirely renew to my customers. I've successfully created a page template for a custom login page, and ...
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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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Show Welcome Panel on Dashboard for every user

I have customised the welcome panel on the dashboard for users with information in. I then hid the "Dismiss" button and added CSS to make the welcome panel always visible. Using the 'welcome_panel' ...
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How to Remove ALL Widgets from Dashboard?

I'm looking for a complete blank Dashboard. No widgets at all and preferably one column. There are snippets to remove the default WordPress widgets, but haven't found nothing about the ones added ...
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Can't access dashboard, connection times out (other pages work fine)

I have a multisite Wordpress installation with 2 blogs, on different domains. One of them works fine, but I just realized that for the other, I can't access the admin area. I can log in, but when ...
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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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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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How to change the title of a Meta Box on a specified Custom Post Type? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Change The Title Of a Meta Box Is it possible to change the title of a Meta Box on a specific Custom Post Type add or edit page? For example, if I'm viewing the post ...
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How to change the default home page for the WordPress Dashboard?

Is it possible to change the Default "Home" admin page when logging into the WordPress Dashboard? I thought about a couple of possibilities... Substitute the content on the Dashboard home page ...
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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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Removing admin bar from wordpress dashboard

I'm using wordpress multiste 3.3.1 I'm not gonna update it in the future. So I disabled all upgrade functions. I want to remove the wordpress admin bar from both frontend as well as dashboard. I can ...
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Remove dashboard, use Pages tab as default

Is there a way to have "Pages" set as the default tab when the user logs in to the admin area? I am using a heavily customised set up, where none of the dashboard widgets are useful so they are hidden ...
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3.3: How do you hide the new dashboard welcome panel?

I have tried various versions of this here: unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['high']['dashboard_wp_welcome_panel']); ...
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730 views

Admin top level menu, pointing to an external url

I want to create a entirely new top level menu in the admin menu section, and have that be an external link, is this even possible with the current system? The solution that t31os provides in this ...
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How do you force the wordpress dashboard to be 1 coulmn by default?

How do you force the wordpress dashboard to be 1 coulmn by default? I want to show the dashboard as a single column for all users.
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Change maxlength of link_description in dashbord link section?

Im using wordpress together with qtranslate and it works on pages and post but not in menus, widgets etc. So i created jquery scripts to solve those issues. The problem is that the field ...
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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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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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Changing Admin Menu Labels

I have spent the last day using the functions.php file to fully customize WordPress for my client sites. I am amazed at how much I have been able to accomplish and how much easier it will make things ...
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Add “external” link to admin menu in the backend

Trying to add a link to my admin menu (dashboard/backend) that leads to the frontend of wordpress, so I basically want a link in the menu that takes me to the blog. I've found a couple of ways to ...