Thread Starter
todaro
(@todaro)
Well, let me try again:
I’ve found out that the page index.php in the wp-admin folder contains the following code in the bottom:
<?php _e("Need help with WordPress? Please see our
<a href='http://codex.wordpress.org/'>documentation</a>
or visit the <a href='http://wordpress.org/support/'>support
forums</a>."); ?>
<div id="devnews"></div>
<div id="planetnews"></div>
<div style="clear: both">
<br clear="all" />
</div>
</div>
<?php
require('./admin-footer.php');
?>
I want it to be shown only if the user is an Administrator.
How can I do that?
Thanks!
Thread Starter
todaro
(@todaro)
C’mon guys!
I’m not a PHP guy but I’m sure it’s not that difficult!
Consider this:
When an user other than an Administrator enters the site what does he/she see? Profile and Dashboard only. In other words, all Administrator’s options are hidden.
The question is simple: how can I add Dashboard to those hidden options?
Thank you to anyone who feels like willing to help me.
Thread Starter
todaro
(@todaro)
Unfortunately not.
Surely it’s an interesting plugin and I’ll keep it set active but it still doesn’t do what I want.
Whatever the redirected page is, it still shows the Dashboard option. That’s precisely what I don’t want it to do.
Thanks for your attention.
Anyone have other suggestion?
Thread Starter
todaro
(@todaro)
Retrying:
When an user other than an Administrator enters a WordPress-made site what does he/she see? Profile and Dashboard only. In other words, all Administrator’s options are hidden. How can I add Dashboard to those hidden options?
Thank you to anyone who feels like willing to help me.
Ok, I had the same question and after extensive searching I came up with …
Hide dashboard Plugin
I’ve installed it and it seems to work just fine. 🙂
Hope it helps.
I’m looking for the same thing but Hide dashboard Plugin has a big issue since any suscriber can manually access the dashboard by typing index.php in the location bar…
Any suggestion? Maybe there is a way to edit a PHP file and remove the Dashboard access for level 0 users. I dunno.
Ran into this same question myself. Did some digging through the files and I decided just to do a flatout edit of the one of the files.
You may have to redo this every time an update comes along – but ah well. I’m not familiar with how WordPress handles plugins – if someone can do so, that’d be great.
Just go to your blog/wp-admin/index.php
Right under:
require_once(‘admin.php’);
Put:
if (!current_user_can(‘level_10’) ) wp_redirect(“profile.php”);
Yea, it’s a very tiny edit. 😛
Thx pftq it looks like a good solution and I modified the admin.php file like you said. But when a user (level 10) is connected, he can still manually access the dashboard by typing index.php in the location bar… Any idea how I could definitely avoid them to access the dashboard?
Alkorr and pftq are on the right track – what I’ve done is add this around the block of code from todaro above, in wp-admin/index.php:
<?php if ( current_user_can('level_10') ) : ?>
<p><?php _e("Need help with WordPress? Please see our <a href='http://codex.wordpress.org/'>documentation</a> or visit the <a href='http://wordpress.org/support/'>support forums</a>."); ?></p>
<div id="devnews"></div>
<div id="planetnews"></div>
<?php endif; ?>
`
I think this is a good solution as regular users will still see the zeitgeist block and link to their profile, and admin(s) will continue to view the wordpress news feeds.
