How To Remove News Feed In WordPress Dashboard
Using the following snippet, you will be able to remove news feed from your WordPress dashboard.
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add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'my_dashboard_widgets'); function my_dashboard_widgets() { global $wp_meta_boxes; // remove unnecessary widgets // var_dump( $wp_meta_boxes['dashboard'] ); // use to get all the widget IDs unset( $wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins'], $wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary'], $wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_primary'] ); // add a custom dashboard widget wp_add_dashboard_widget( 'dashboard_custom_feed', 'News from 10up', 'dashboard_custom_feed_output' ); //add new RSS feed output } function dashboard_custom_feed_output() { echo '<div class="rss-widget">'; wp_widget_rss_output(array( 'url' => 'http://www.get10up.com/feed', 'title' => 'What\'s up at 10up', 'items' => 2, 'show_summary' => 1, 'show_author' => 0, 'show_date' => 1, )); echo "</div>"; } |
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How To Show Content For Logged In Users
Adding this snippet to your theme’s functions.php file will let you show content only for logged in users.
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<?php add_shortcode("hide","hide_shortcode"); function hide_shortcode($x,$text=null){ if(!is_user_logged_in()){ return "You have to been registered and logged in to see this content"; }else{ return do_shortcode($text); } } ?> |
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How To Remove Widgets From WordPress Dashboard
The following snippet will let you remove widgets from WordPress dashboard area.
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//Remove unwanted widgets from Dashboard function remove_dashboard_widgets() { global$wp_meta_boxes; unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary']); } add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets'); |
Snippet Source/Credit: WP Guru
How To Remove WordPress Version
Adding the following snippet to your theme’s functions.php file, you will be able to remove WordPress version.
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add_filter('the_generator', 'digwp_complete_version_removal'); function digwp_complete_version_removal() { return ''; } |
Snippet Source/Credit: Jeff Starr
How To Make Your WordPress Website SEO Friendly
Using the following snippet, you will be able to make your WordPress website SEO friendly.
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function basic_wp_seo() { global $page, $paged, $post; $default_keywords = 'wordpress, plugins, themes, design, dev, development, security, htaccess, apache, php, sql, html, css, jquery, javascript, tutorials'; // customize $output = ''; // description $seo_desc = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mm_seo_desc', true); $description = get_bloginfo('description', 'display'); $pagedata = get_post($post->ID); if (is_singular()) { if (!empty($seo_desc)) { $content = $seo_desc; } else if (!empty($pagedata)) { $content = apply_filters('the_excerpt_rss', $pagedata->post_content); $content = substr(trim(strip_tags($content)), 0, 155); $content = preg_replace('#\n#', ' ', $content); $content = preg_replace('#\s{2,}#', ' ', $content); $content = trim($content); } } else { $content = $description; } $output .= '<meta name="description" content="' . esc_attr($content) . '">' . "\n"; // keywords $keys = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mm_seo_keywords', true); $cats = get_the_category(); $tags = get_the_tags(); if (empty($keys)) { if (!empty($cats)) foreach($cats as $cat) $keys .= $cat->name . ', '; if (!empty($tags)) foreach($tags as $tag) $keys .= $tag->name . ', '; $keys .= $default_keywords; } $output .= "\t\t" . '<meta name="keywords" content="' . esc_attr($keys) . '">' . "\n"; // robots if (is_category() || is_tag()) { $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; if ($paged > 1) { $output .= "\t\t" . '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">' . "\n"; } else { $output .= "\t\t" . '<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">' . "\n"; } } else if (is_home() || is_singular()) { $output .= "\t\t" . '<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">' . "\n"; } else { $output .= "\t\t" . '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">' . "\n"; } // title $title_custom = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mm_seo_title', true); $url = ltrim(esc_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']), '/'); $name = get_bloginfo('name', 'display'); $title = trim(wp_title('', false)); $cat = single_cat_title('', false); $tag = single_tag_title('', false); $search = get_search_query(); if (!empty($title_custom)) $title = $title_custom; if ($paged >= 2 || $page >= 2) $page_number = ' | ' . sprintf('Page %s', max($paged, $page)); else $page_number = ''; if (is_home() || is_front_page()) $seo_title = $name . ' | ' . $description; elseif (is_singular()) $seo_title = $title . ' | ' . $name; elseif (is_tag()) $seo_title = 'Tag Archive: ' . $tag . ' | ' . $name; elseif (is_category()) $seo_title = 'Category Archive: ' . $cat . ' | ' . $name; elseif (is_archive()) $seo_title = 'Archive: ' . $title . ' | ' . $name; elseif (is_search()) $seo_title = 'Search: ' . $search . ' | ' . $name; elseif (is_404()) $seo_title = '404 - Not Found: ' . $url . ' | ' . $name; else $seo_title = $name . ' | ' . $description; $output .= "\t\t" . '<title>' . esc_attr($seo_title . $page_number) . '</title>' . "\n"; return $output; } |
Once done, simply replace the $default_keywords in line 3 with your own keywords and add the following line of code into your theme’s header.php file.
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<?php echo basic_wp_seo(); ?> |
Snippet Source/Credit: Jeff Starr