It is possible to remove the Dashboard?

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  • EDITED* Scratch that.. thanks Viper! =)

    spencerp

    spencerp: they said the dashboard, not the whole admin area. The dashboard just shows you WordPress news and such.

    typezero: add this to the very top of /wp-admin/index.php:

    header('Location: post.php');
    exit();

    Then open up /wp-admin/menu.php and add // in front of this line:

    $menu[0] = array(__('Dashboard'), 'read', 'index.php');

    Oh! Yeah.. [slaps self].. I just woke up a few minutes ago lol! Takes the thinking ability of the brain a little while to kick in.. =P

    Thanks Viper for pointing that out to me.. ??

    spencerp

    I’m not usually up at 9:30am lmao, I’m usually just going to bed at this time.. my sleep time is all screwed up now ..haha. =P

    I managed to replace the dashboard with my customised version by tweaking the code of the ‘dasher’ plugin.


    // this intercepts the request for the real Dashboard
    if(strstr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'wp-admin/index.php') !== FALSE) {
    $is_admin = TRUE;
    if(!isset($_GET['page'])) {
    add_action('admin_head', 'dbmod_user_dash_load', 99999);
    }
    }
    // This function contains the replacement Dashboard. Some of the globals aren't needed anymore, but I'm not sure which ones...
    function dbmod_user_dash_load() {
    global $confidential_cat, $baseURL, $dasher_options, $wpdb, $user_login, $userdata, $user_level, $user_ID, $user_email, $user_url, $user_pass_md5, $user_identity, $user_nickname, $menu, $submenu, $admin_page_hooks, $parent_file, $title, $plugin_page, $submenu_file, $menu_hook, $pagenow, $wp_version;
    get_currentuserinfo(); if ($user_level < 8) {
    require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-admin/admin.php');
    $title = __('Dashboard');
    require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-admin/admin-header.php');
    require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss-functions.php');
    echo '
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="wphead">
    <h1>' . wptexturize(get_settings(('blogname'))) . ' <span>(<a href="' . get_settings('home') . '/">' . __('View site') . " ?</a>)</span></h1>n</div>n";
    if ($wp_version{0} != '1') { // suppress the user info thing for WP 1.x
    echo "<div id='user_info'>";
    printf(__('Howdy, <strong>%s</strong>.'), $user_identity);
    echo ' [<a href="' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="' . __('Log out of this account') . '">' . __('Sign Out') . '</a>, <a href="profile.php">' . __('My Account') . "</a>] </div>n";
    }
    require(ABSPATH . '/wp-admin/menu-header.php');
    //Here is the new content of the dashboard
    echo '<div class="wrap">' . "n<h2>" . __('Dashboard') . "</h2>"
    ?>
    <h3>YOUR TITLE</h3>
    blah blah blah
    <?php
    require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-admin/admin-footer.php');
    die(); // critical - stops execution so the real Dashboard doesn't happen
    }
    }

    You can add whatever you want in the middle; you can change the h2 dashboard title also, or make calls to queries.
    Of course I suggest you using the wp divs to mimic the appearence of the real dashboard; to see them, just look at the code of admin pages.
    This worked like magic for me.
    Cheers,
    Davide

    Thread Starter typezero

    (@typezero)

    Great!! Thanks for the replies!!!!

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