“I find that anyone wishing to provide a comment must log in”
That is something you have chosen – it’s in Options > General.
Fair enough… knew it had to be there somewhere. Thanks for pointing it out.
But what about the Dashboard, which has all the notices about WordPress, etc. That’s fine for a personal blog, maybe, but not for a business-oriented site. Can the “inside view,” i.e., the one that includes the Dashboard, be customized to match a template?
It can, if you work on it.
And here is a quote: first line of the WP homepage:
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform…
[emphasis mine]
You can use the x-Dashboard plugin to customize the Dashboard contents.
http://wp-plugins.net/plugin/x-dashboard/
I have been using X-Dashboard and I love it. But it doesn’t seem to be compatible with WP2.
Does anyone know of an update or an alternative to this aswesome plugin?
<curmudgeon rant>
I really need this level of control since there are non-authors who can login and see this. And while I’m here, may I gripe for a moment about the WordPress dashboard? Who thought that more space shoud be dedicated to the self-selected stars of WP than to crucial information about my own blog?
</curmudgeon rant>
Alternative: open wp-admin/index.php and excise the stuff from the self-selected stars of WP….
Great rant btw. I’m in full agreement.
Amen to the rant, especially as when that feed is slow or fails I can’t even see the dashboard.
I replaced the WordPress Allstars RSS feeds, with my own RSS selections! It’s alright. Each of my WP blogs shows headlines from my other blogs and some feeds from sites I like, on the Dashboards.
Did this in wp-admin/index.php
it even displays little graphics that are in 1 of the feeds.
However, is there a better answer to the first poster’s inquiry? That is, how could I make wp-register template tag NOT display “Site Admin” link when logged in?
dgold and vkaryl, thank you for those excellent suggestions!
I will hack away… 😉
