How can I prevent the “Incoming links” from displaying in the control panel?

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that’s hot… and strange.

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        $widget_options['dashboard_incoming_links'] = array(
39            'home' => get_option('home'),
40            'link' => apply_filters( 'dashboard_incoming_links_link', 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&scoring=d&partner=wordpress&q=link:' . trailingslashit( get_option('home') ) ),
41            'url' => apply_filters( 'dashboard_incoming_links_feed', 'http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss&partner=wordpress&q=link:' . trailingslashit( get_option('home') ) ),
42            'items' => isset($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    */