Sometimes I’d like to go straight to my front page after logging in. This is extremely useful with themes like P2 which allow you to post from the front page, but may also come in handy if you don’t want your users to be put off by the admin interface. There’s a very effective solution … Read more
It is my pleasure to share with you my latest WordPress Plugin: Zen Dash. It allows you to selectively hide those Dashboard Widgets, Menu Items, Update Notifications and even Footer Links.
Inspired by Joseph Lowery and my recent post about how to do this in code, I wanted to create the same functionality without users having to use code.
After a few days of coding I really got into it and added several other features, including some nice jQuery UI tabs.
I’ve just released a small update for my Disk Space Pie Chart plugin for WordPress. The new version addresses the following minor issues: Fixed Division by Zero bug (Thanks, Jure!) Tweaked some colours to better blend with WordPress Core Added MySQL Server Version The update was inspired by Jure di Mephit who very kindly gave … Read more
It’s happened to me more often than I can remember: you build a new site, you want to put it live, and you want to switch on Akismet. You know you have an API key – but where on earth is it? If you’re running Kismet If you have the Akismet Plugin installed, head over … Read more
WordPress is made up of over 70 files which may be called to display your site. Dreamweaver has a handy feature with which it lets you discover all those files.
Sometimes this works great – and sometimes you get the error message above. I was stumped by this when a site I was working on seemingly threw Dreamweaver overnight. Was was going on?
The secret is Permalinks.
Dreamweaver has a problem discovering and resolving related files if you’ve set Permalinks to anything other than the default. This problem has been around for a while, ever since the introduction of this feature in fact.
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.
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.
On a standalone (non-WordPress) project you’d import the jQuery library in the head tag, then call a jQuery function towards the bottom of your file. This approach isn’t working in WordPress. Since jQuery and many other useful libraries are already part of WordPress, there’s no need to link to your own copy. Instead, you need … Read more