Wordpress - How to customize your wordpress admin dashboard.

Customize WordPress Dashboard according to your needs.

Hi friends, Here I am going to talk about how to customize WordPress dashboard because many of the client does not like to see some blah blah things on his administrator page. so we need some concentration to get that.

WordPress has beautiful structures for developers to do something on specific areas. Let's move on to do that.

First, have a look about WP dashboard page something like this below image,



In this see lot of information there like Plugins, right now, incoming links, WordPress development blog etc. we do not want all these bunch info.

For example i need only the quick press option on this dashboard main page, so doing that find functions. PHP on your theme folder.

add the following function code into your functions.php.

// ######## Custom Dashboard Widgets - http://techniyaz.tk ###########
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'wpc_dashboard_widgets');
function wpc_dashboard_widgets() {
global $wp_meta_boxes;
// Today widget
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_right_now']);
// Last comments
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_recent_comments']);
// Incoming links
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_incoming_links']);
// Plugins
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']);
// Recent Drafts
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_recent_drafts']);
}
// ######## Custom Dashboard Widgets - http://techniyaz.tk ###########

If you does not like your dashboard styles and colors, you can change as like below codes, First make a some changes in functions.php

// Admin CSS- http://techniyaz.tk ###########

// Custom WordPress Admin Color Scheme
function admin_css() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'admin_css', get_template_directory_uri() . '/admin-css/admin.css' );
}
add_action('admin_print_styles', 'admin_css' );

//Admin CSS - http://techniyaz.tk ###########

and make admin-css diresctory as put in the function code and create admin.css file make styles for your admin dashboard. My prefer use firebug plugin in Mozilla for quick access your styles.

And then to change your footer text. do the following update in your functions.php

// ######## Footer Changes- http://techniyaz.tk ###########
function remove_footer_admin () {
echo '© 2013 - Created by Niyaz, Powered by WP.';
}
add_filter('admin_footer_text', 'remove_footer_admin');
// Footer Changes- http://techniyaz.tk #####################

That's all from here.

Update your valuable comments. Thanks for reading.