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Opened 12 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#19972 closed enhancement (fixed)

New Dashboard Welcome Area cannot be changed or removed

Reported by: npetetin's profile npetetin Owned by:
Milestone: 3.5 Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 3.3.1
Component: Administration Keywords: has-patch
Focuses: Cc:

Description

Although every dashboard content element has been customizable for a long time, 3.3 introduced Welcome Area, which is great actually but completely hard-coded! No way to change any bit or remove it without changing wp-admin/index.php itself!

Please call 'wp_welcome_panel' via a new action hook ASAP.

Attachments (1)

19972.diff (627 bytes) - added by lightningspirit 12 years ago.
Creates a new action hook inside wp-admin/index.php to solve the issue realted to wp_welcome_panel() being called hardcoded

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Change History (16)

#1 @nacin
12 years ago

We *should* move it to a hook, but see how http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hide-welcome-panel-for-multisite/ handles it.

#2 @npetetin
12 years ago

The only thing this plugin does is hiding it by default, am I right? It still may be displayed by checking the screen option with the exact same hard-coded content. So it doesn't fix the issue at all, it's just hiding it behind an option.

What's definitely required is the same level of customization by plugins as the dashboard had reached until now. Without it, it's just a 3 year step back.

WP has reached a high level of maturity, especially since version 3. It has attracted a large amount of business projects and many professional solutions now rely on it. So when such new features are added, please give them the same level of maturity. It's the exact same issue with the new about page by the way...

#3 @TJNowell
12 years ago

What I'd really like to be able to do is add in the extra items for custom themes, additional blocks/rows/tabs etc so that New clients don't end up with a new WordPress banner followed by a 'hey new user here's the stuff one of your superiors paid us to add' double whammy, with two separate UIs etc

Last edited 12 years ago by TJNowell (previous) (diff)

#4 @senlin
12 years ago

  • Cc senlinonline@… added

Clearly and unfortunately this has not been solved for the upcoming release. So for now there is only the possibility to hide the panel for registered users? Hiding is not the same as removing and as you can remove the rest of the dashboard relatively easily, this should definitely be possible for this intrusive panel!

// credits EAMann freely adapted from Andrew Nacin: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/36404/2015
add_action( 'load-index.php', 'hide_welcome_panel' );

function hide_welcome_panel() {
    $user_id = get_current_user_id();

    if ( 1 == get_user_meta( $user_id, 'show_welcome_panel', true ) )
        update_user_meta( $user_id, 'show_welcome_panel', 0 );
}

@lightningspirit
12 years ago

Creates a new action hook inside wp-admin/index.php to solve the issue realted to wp_welcome_panel() being called hardcoded

#5 @lightningspirit
12 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch 2nd-opinion dev-feedback added
  • Version changed from 3.3.1 to 3.4

#6 @SergeyBiryukov
12 years ago

  • Version changed from 3.4 to 3.3.1

Version number indicates when the bug was initially introduced/reported.

#7 @bananastalktome
12 years ago

  • Cc bananastalktome@… added

+1 on this. Also, why is the edit_theme_options capability check used as a shortcut out of the wp_welcome_panel function? The "Basic Settings" section still applies to users without this capability.

#8 @bpetty
12 years ago

  • Cc bpetty added

I believe this is resolved in 3.4, and since it's not really a "bug", I think this can be closed now.

#9 @bpetty
12 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

#10 @ocean90
12 years ago

  • Resolution fixed deleted
  • Severity changed from major to normal
  • Status changed from closed to reopened

Nothing fixed here.

#11 @npetetin
12 years ago

Thank you ocean90 to reopen it, there's absolutely nothing new about it in WP 3.4!
Please see 19972.diff, this is exactly what to do in my opinion.

#12 @martythornley
12 years ago

  • Cc marty@… added

Related to http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21331.

I added a patch there for new filters that allow you to fully manipulate the whole dashboard page.

Version 0, edited 12 years ago by martythornley (next)

#13 @helenyhou
11 years ago

  • Keywords 2nd-opinion dev-feedback removed
  • Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 3.5
  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from reopened to closed
  • Type changed from defect (bug) to enhancement

Actually, #21331 looks to me a duplicate in intent, and we can call this fixed in [22018].

#14 @helenyhou
11 years ago

#21331 was marked as a duplicate.

#15 @npetetin
11 years ago

Perfect with [22018].

Thanks.

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