pja

AGGGGHHHHHH!!!

I developed the above complex solution only to find a much easier one.

Towards the top right-hand corner of the Dashboard page is a link/button for “Screen Options“; click on this link and you will see a list of “widgets” that you can show (or not show) on the Dashboard page. I have unticked:

• Incoming Links
• Plugins
• QuickPress
• WordPress Development Blog
• Other WordPress News

In addition, I moved the “Recent Comments” widget to make the page layout look neater.

Very simple!

Regards,
Peter

If you want to block “incoming links” in your Dashboard and you are using WordPress 2.7 then edit the file ../wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php

The following shows lines 34 to 47 (after my suggested modification). I have added the start multi-line comment (/*) at line 35 and the end multi-line comment (*/) at line 47. This effectively blocks out the whole incoming links widget.

I hope that helps.

Peter

34    // Incoming Links Widget
35    /*
36    if ( !isset( $widget_options['dashboard_incoming_links'] ) || !isset( $widget_options['dashboard_incoming_links']['home'] ) || $widget_options['dashboard_incoming_links']['home'] != get_option('home') ) {
37        $update = true;
38        $widget_options['dashboard_incoming_links'] = array(
39            'home' => get_option('home'),
40            'link' => apply_filters( 'dashboard_incoming_links_link', 'https://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&scoring=d&partner=wordpress&q=link:' . trailingslashit( get_option('home') ) ),
41            'url' => apply_filters( 'dashboard_incoming_links_feed', 'https://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss&partner=wordpress&q=link:' . trailingslashit( get_option('home') ) ),
42            'items' => isset($widget_options['dashboard_incoming_links']['items']) ? $widget_options['dashboard_incoming_links']['items'] : 10,
43            'show_date' => isset($widget_options['dashboard_incoming_links']['show_date']) ? $widget_options['dashboard_incoming_links']['show_date'] : false
44        );
45    }
46    wp_add_dashboard_widget( 'dashboard_incoming_links', __( 'Incoming Links' ), 'wp_dashboard_incoming_links', 'wp_dashboard_incoming_links_control' );
47    */

User profiles need to have the “Use wysiwyg editor” box UN-TICKED – the opposite of what you expect!

Regards,
Peter

Evita,

Thanks, I have found (at long last) how to switch between Rich Text Editor and simple text editor.

Thanks,

Peter

Evita,

I had actually found them; what I was asking is how do I make them visible in the writer editor?

Peter