[Plugin: WP Hide Dashboard] Not as advertised

First, let me say that the author of the plugin did a very nice job on this plugin. However, the author could have put a little bit more meat into this plugin.

The plugin has no settings. It works right off the bat once installed. The dashboard really isn’t gone, it’s just being forwarded to the profile page.

I like the concept, but since I have buddypress installed, I really didn’t want users to just go to the old WP-Profile page. Mostly because the buddypress and wp-profile page don’t sync together.

The good thing is that the code can be easily hacked to point/forward to a different page other than the profile page. But, you have to do this from the backend. By hacking the pointed/forwarded to url, I was able to point to a new page or back to the front page. Mostly, because when users login, they are always pointed to the dashboard. I really didn’t like that idea. I mean, I can edit the widgets/sidebar to point to most of the necessary urls that users need.

They seriously need to consider getting rid of the dashboard, it is pointless to have, especially if you have buddypress profiles installed. (Which leads to conflicts)

As for this plugin, please consider adding settings to the admin dashboard section, that allows the main admin (WPMU) to decide if:

– They want to point to a certain url (Which you can use a text field for people to input the url that the regular users will be forwarded to.)
– Please keep the idea of Admins being able to see the dashboard. That is very cool, but regular users have little purpose to see the dashboard any more. Especially with buddypress now in existence.
– Create a setting that allows admins to decide whether to just send to front page or to disable dashboard and profile screens all together, which just sends them to the front page. Only the admins should be able to see the dashboard.

But, regardless, thank you for the code. Remember everyone, that you can simply just edit the code to point to any page you want, but only by editing the plugins php file.