Remove Crap from Wordpress dashboard

Posted on June 15, 2010, 10:27 am, by Brian, under PHP, Working on the web.

Wordpress Admin Screenshot

Wordpress is great software. I love the UI. I don’t like the extra clutter in the dashboard and neither do some of my clients. Getting rid of it (or adding to it) is fairly easy. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Widgets_API for all that you can do.

If you just need to quickly trim down the dashboard use the code below in your themes functions.php file.

/************************
 * Control over widgets in admin dashboard
 ************************/
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', '_remove_dashboard_widgets' );
 
function _remove_dashboard_widgets() {
    global $wp_meta_boxes;
    unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']);
    unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_incoming_links']);
    unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_primary']);
    unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary']);
    unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_quick_press']);
}
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