Javier

Change the 0 to a number between 1 and 10, then the tab will disappear.

Personally, I just edited wp-admin/index.php at the very bottom to look like this (commented out the feeds, etc.) and now the dashboard is very clean and helpful. Here is the bottom of the index.php file after changes.

So the first part above is for the menu tab, the second part is for modifying the dashboard. I like the dashboard menu item, but after I cleaned it up using the comments to kill the busy features.

Good luck and make sure you back up first!

—-BEGIN—-

<!– <?php _e(”Need help with WordPress? Please see our documentation or visit the support forums.”); ?> –>

I can’t post the actual code, but look for the lines below at the bottom of the file and comment them out as I have done in the line above. That will clean you all up and present a very simple and useful dashboard.

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I recieve the following message.

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ‘\’ (ASCII=92) state=1 in /nfs/cust/6/52/41/714256/web/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/remove_dashboard.php on line 2

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ‘\’ (ASCII=92) state=1 in /nfs/cust/6/52/41/714256/web/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/remove_dashboard.php on line 2
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fcharset0 Times New Roman;}{\f1\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}} {\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1507;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\sb100\sa100\f0\fs24 \par \pard\f1\fs20\par }
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /nfs/cust/6/52/41/714256/web/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/remove_dashboard.php:2) in /nfs/cust/6/52/41/714256/web/wordpress/wp-login.php on line 12

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /nfs/cust/6/52/41/714256/web/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/remove_dashboard.php:2) in /nfs/cust/6/52/41/714256/web/wordpress/wp-login.php on line 24

Any idea on how to correct this???

Thanks,

Martin

< ?php
/*
Plugin Name: Filosofo Remove Dashboard
Plugin URI: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/
Description: Make the Dashboard, that page that takes forever to load when you log in, disappear.
Version: 1.0
Author: Austin Matzko
Author URI: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/
*/

/* Copyright 2006 Austin Matzko (email : if.website at gmail.com)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/

function remove_the_dashboard () {
global $user_level;
global $menu, $submenu, $user_ID;
$the_user = new WP_User($user_ID);

if ($user_level > 9){
}

else {

reset($menu); $page = key($menu);
while ((__(’Dashboard’) != $menu[$page][0]) && next($menu))
$page = key($menu);
if (__(’Dashboard’) == $menu[$page][0]) unset($menu[$page]);
reset($menu); $page = key($menu);
while (!$the_user->has_cap($menu[$page][1]) && next($menu))
$page = key($menu);
if (preg_match(’#wp-admin/?(index.php)?$#’,$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) && (’index.php’ != $menu[$page][2]))
wp_redirect(get_option(’siteurl’) . ‘/wp-admin/’ . $menu[$page][2]);
}

}

add_action(’admin_menu’, ‘remove_the_dashboard’);

?>