MOin on Jul 10, 2010 | Tips & Tutorials

How to Customize WordPress Dashboard By Add/Remove Widgets

WordPress version 2.7+ allow you to add or remove dashboard widgets to customize it the way you want to. Luckily this tweak is also very easy and requires very minimal coding.

All you need to do is to paste the following code in your Functions.php file. It will remove all the widgets available in your dashboard further after you can try and Add/Remove lines starting with unset($wp_meta_boxes… to keep or remove the widgets you want.

function remove_dashboard_widgets() {
	global $wp_meta_boxes;
 
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_quick_press']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_incoming_links']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_right_now']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_recent_drafts']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_recent_comments']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_primary']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary']);
 
}
 
if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
	add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets' );
}

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