Jay Versluis

If you want to never see a widget on your WordPress Dashboard ever again, just head over to the top where it says “Screen Option”, then simply un-tick the ones you don’t like.

That’s Zen Therapy right there. These preferences are saved on a per-user basis.

But what if you don’t want certain widgets to show up, because your client gets confused by all the dashboard clutter? I know I do!

Help is at hand: you can use a couple of neat functions in your theme (or plugin) so certain widgets never even show up. Let’s see how this works.

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There’s a great little plugin called Add Logo to Admin by c.bavota which does a great job at letting you add your own logo to the WordPress login screen, and even to the top of your dashboard. But it’s another plugin.

If you’re building a theme for a client and simply want to replace the generic WordPress image, you can do that with just a few lines of code. Place them in your theme’s functions.php file:

//Change the generic login image
function custom_login_logo() {
  echo '';
}
add_action('login_head', 'custom_login_logo');

Discovered in Jo Lowery’s excellent course Dreamweaver and WordPress Core Concepts at Lynda.com.

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