The “Right Now” WordPress Dashboard widget is a familiar sight on any WordPress install. It displays helpful information as to how many posts, pages, links, categories, and tags you currently have as well as info about the number of comments and widgets. It also tells you the current theme and WordPress version you are running […]

Yesterday I shared how to remove items from the WordPress Admin Toolbar. This can be very useful but for someone who spends a lot of time logged into their website like myself, this tip can be even more useful. Here is the code. [php] add_action( ‘admin_bar_menu’, ‘my_toolbar_links_to_stuff’, 999 ); function my_toolbar_links_to_stuff( $wp_admin_bar ) { if( […]

In the last post we learned the basics for creating our very own WordPress plugin. Now I would like to show you how to make them really do something. What I mean by that is that our last post really only created the container. In order for the plugin to be really useful we need […]