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Hmm, I’m not sure. Is it overridden by your template somehow? Sorry I can’t be more help.

The additional hacky thing you could do, maybe, is add actions onto the authentication system hooks. This way, if someone managed to activate the action through a default link, they’d still be redirected… (I’m not sure if this would result in every single person being logged in to WP or other undesirable things, though… maybe try it out and see what happens? )

hooks:

add_action('wp_authenticate', 'authenticate_redirect',);
	add_action('wp_logout', 'logout_redirect');
	add_action('lost_password', 'disable_function');
	add_action('retrieve_password', 'disable_function');
	add_action('password_reset', 'disable_function');

example function:

function authenticate_redirect() {
	wp_redirect("http://your-site/login-page");
}

I don’t know how you’d pass through the WP session id for the logout this way, but there might be some kind of wp_get_session_id function, so you could do something like:
$sessid = wp_get_session_id();
wp_redirect(“http://your-site/logout-page?session=$sessid”);

Good luck, hope that helps some.

I think this article is really helpful:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Widgets_API#Advanced:_Removing_Dashboard_Widgets

… basically, I just wrote a plugin like so:

# get rid of dashboard junk
function example_remove_dashboard_widgets() {
	// Globalize the metaboxes array, this holds all the widgets for wp-admin
	global $wp_meta_boxes;

        unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_incoming_links']);
        unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']);
        unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_quick_press']);
        unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_primary']);
        unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary']);

} 

// Hook into the 'wp_dashboard_setup' action to register our function
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'example_remove_dashboard_widgets' );

… then dropped it into the “mu-plugins” folder, and this got rid of everything except “latest comments”, “Right now”, and “Recent Drafts”.