Questions tagged [admin]
Users with the ability to perform administrative tasks for a site or a network of sites.
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Best collection of code for your 'functions.php' file [closed]
As with many others who are now viewing this post, I have been reading various blogs, forums, and discussion groups to learn and improve my WordPress skills. Over the past 12 months I have been on a ...
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Organizing Code in your WordPress Theme's functions.php File?
The more customization I make to WordPress the more I start thinking about if I should be organizing this file or splitting it up.
More specifically, if I have a bunch of custom functions which only ...
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Add filter menu to admin list of posts (of custom type) to filter posts by custom field values
This answer is very close to what I am looking to do, but instead I would like to specify a specific custom field and display a select menu of its available values. Thanks!
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What are the standard admin CSS id/class tags?
Is there a list of WordPress CSS id/classes that I can use to build plugin option screens that look and feel more like a normal WordPress option page? I have found some through serendipity but it ...
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Creating a table in the admin-style?
What is the recommended way of creating a page with a table, in the style of the tables showing posts or users in the admin area?
I am expanding the Cache Images plugin, and it contains a table with ...
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How to remove admin menu pages inserted by plugins?
I've got the following code, which cleans up a lot of stuff that is not going to be used within the admin area:
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'my_remove_menu_pages' );
function my_remove_menu_pages() {
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Admin Ajax is returning 0
I am relatively new to jQuery and AJAX in particular. I have a small issue with the return value always being 0, though I think this is actually the success message and it's not returning anything.
I ...
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How to filter post listing (in WP dashboard posts listing) using a custom field (search functionality)?
Despite the fact I googled a lot, I've not found the answer to a very simple question :
I have some posts with a custom field (i.e. supplier_name). I would like to be able to search and filter my ...
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Add custom column to Users admin panel
There is default 5 columns named Username Name Email Role Posts in USERS.
Now I want to add one more column with his contact number.
How can I achieve this??
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Changing the Order of Admin Menu Sections?
I am getting a bit frustrated over here after having spent a few hours trying to accomplish this fairly simple task without any luck.
Essentially I have 5 custom post types which I created and all I ...
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How to determine whether we are in add New page/post/CPT or in edit page/post/CPT in wordpress admin?
This seems like simple thing but I need way to determine whether the current screen is for Add New or Edit ( a sort of wordpress admin conditional tag). Is there a built in function for this already, ...
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wp_verify_nonce vs check_admin_referer
What is the difference, which one should I use?
I know that wp_verify_nonce checks the time limit, and check_admin_referer I think calls wp_verify_nonce as well as checking for an admin url segment, ...
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Add a Separator to the Admin Menu?
Does anyone know how to add an admin menu separator? I found this but it did not help.
Any ideas?
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how to know if admin is in edit page or post [duplicate]
I use this after I checked if the user is admin
if ( isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action'] === 'edit' )
is there better way?
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Placing a Custom Post Type Menu Above the Posts Menu Using menu_position?
I just figured out the menu_position parameter it seems like you can place the menu of your custom post type almost everywhere. Except above the Posts menu!
How can I accomplish that?
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Load a script just to custom post type in admin
I have created a custom post type "portfolio" with something like this :
$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => ...
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body_class hook for admin pages
The body_class hook seem only to work with non-admin pages. When I do
add_filter('body_class', 'add_body_classes');
function add_body_classes($classes) {
$classes[] = 'myclass';
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Admin Page Redirect
Is it possible to redirect users to an admin page if they access another admin page?
For example if they a user ever hits "all pages" /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page
they would get redirected to "...
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How to check if user is in back end?
In my application, i have one form.
Now if user is in front end i want to display the title but if he is in back end i do not want to display it.
I do not want to check it based on user role.
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Adding an Arbitrary Link to the Admin Menu?
Is there a way to add a arbitrary hyperlink to the WordPress admin menu (I mean the menu on the left when you log into the admin dashboard)? For example, can one add a link to Google?
In my ...
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Where in WP can I check history or log of updates of plugins etc?
I need to find out what happened at a certain time when some of my admins made some plugin updates etc. So I need to check in admin the log of changes, updates etc.
Where can I find that in WP admin?
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Modal window from within Wordpress admin
How can get a modal window to work from within the wordpress admin?
I want to create a modal window that will work from a meta box within the wp-admin.
Any ideas?
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Disable dragging of meta boxes?
Anyone know how to disable this functionality so the meta boxes can't be repositioned?
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Adding a custom admin page
I want to add a page of content (a readme file) in the WordPress admin, I can't seem to find how to do this in the codex - can anyone point me in the right direction? It will literally just be a ...
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How does admin-ajax.php work?
We are having some issues with an external developer.
We want to limit access to the wp-admin site to internal access only (via VPN). Simply so it will not be attacked by external users. We can ...
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How do i know the current post type when on post.php in admin?
Im trying to do something with an admin_init hook if - and only if - the user is editing a post (post.php) with post type "event". My problem is that, even though wordpress points to a global variable ...
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Remove update nags for non-admins [duplicate]
I'm trying to remove or hide the update nags for non-admin users. As an admin, I see:
The popular answer I've seen to handle this says to use:
function hide_update_nag() {
if ( !current_user_can(...
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Loading External Scripts in Admin but ONLY for a Specific Post Type?
So I continue to run into this issue and I just looking for the best and simplest solution to solve this problem.
I have come to make use of custom post types in many different projects and have ...
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Give Editor Access To Sidebar
I want to give the Editor Role access to editing the sidebar and it's contents. I have a text widget in there and in order to edit this text widget the user needs to be an admin - this sucks. How do I ...
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Customize Edit Post screen for Custom Post Types?
What's the best way to completely customize the Edit Post admin screen for a specific custom post type?
I have customized it to an extent already on creation of the custom post type - adding ...
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How do I get the current edit page ID in the admin?
Most solutions I found are for front-end use. This is for a plugin, so the all activity is in the back-end.
How do I get the page ID that's being currently use(edited) in the admin?
Note I'm out of ...
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How to remove entire admin menu?
I need to customize the admin panel for my user. So how do I remove the entire admin menu? Not remove the menu item, I mean entirely remove the left vertical menu bar, include the design of the menu (...
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How do I remove dashboard access from specific user roles?
I'd like to prevent certain user roles from accessing the dashboard http://www.openeye.net/wp-admin/ at all. I've moved and restyled user profiles to a new page that's viewable on the site. How would ...
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Filter by custom field in custom post type on admin page
I've used Advanced Custom Fields to create custom fields for Competition name, answers etc. I've made a custom post type for competitions as shown on the image and I used Wordpress functions.php to ...
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Create tabs inside Plugins Admin Page [closed]
I am developing my own plugin and I am trying to figure out how to add tabs to my admin page.
Is the process similar to how we add meta boxes?
Ie, something like add_tab_box(...); and I specify a ...
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Admin: very slow edit page caused by core meta query
We've been noticing really long load times when going to edit a post or page. Using Query Monitor, we found that this WP core query is taking upwards to 15-20s.
SELECT meta_key
FROM wp_postmeta
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if admin is logged in
We know, that is_admin() checks if current URL belongs to DASHBOARD (BUT it doenst check whether user is ADMIN).
So, I use this function to detect if administrator is logged in wordpress:
function ...
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How to remove a column from the Posts page
In a previous question I asked how to add a column to the Posts page in the Administration section, and got a working answer. But now I need to know how to delete an existing column (e.g. the Date ...
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Disable SSL / HTTPS for wordpress
I've installed WordPress and setup the database.
I go to the address and the setup page is there, but no CSS.
I think: something's wrong, but if I just do the setup maybe everything will just go back ...
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How can I speed up my WP admin section?
We have many WP sites with a proxy in between the servers that they sit on and the internet.
Some things in WP simply don't work:
RSS feeds on dashboard
looking up themes
looking up plugins
core ...
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How to pass parameters to admin_notices?
So there is the following case.
I need to display a name inside of admin_notices.
class MyPlugin_Admin {
public static function render_admin_notice() {
echo $name . ' has been upgraded.';...
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Search posts by ID in admin
I'm looking for a way to search through posts by ID, preferably with support for custom post types. I was hoping there'd be a plugin enabling this functionality, but I've failed to find anything. Any ...
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Changing the "Plugin Activated" Message Default
Whenever an administrator in WordPress activates a plugin, upon the reload of the plugin page, a notice will appear upon successful activation reporting "Plugin Activated".
Is there a way to change ...
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Sort pages in loop by admin's page attributes order field?
Is it possible to sort pages in the loop using the admin's order field (under page attributes)?
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Wordpress admin stylesheet
Is there a way to override the styles in the admin in my theme?
I don't want to touch the admin style sheet if I don't have to.
I just want to make a column bigger in my admin, but also, to do it in ...
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Hide other users' posts in admin panel
I intended to run a multi-author site, I don't want the posts from other authors to be shown in /wp-admin/edit.php page.
I managed solve this problem by the codes from this thread. The code is like ...
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Set Default Admin Colour For All Users
I am surprised with the new colour scheme for 3.8 and although the classic 3.7 theme has gone, I would like to set the new "Light" colour scheme as the default for all users, but at the same time, ...
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How to Add a Third Level Sub Menu to the Wordpress Admin Menu
Is there a function, action or filter that I can use to add a third level drop-down menu to the WordPress admin menu.
For instance, right now in the sidebar menu, there is a menu for posts and under ...
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How to use more than 256MB of memory in the admin?
I'm building a site for a photographer who uploads pictures that are normally large for todays digital cameras. Images are quite memory intensive, especially the image operations like creating ...
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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 with ...
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