WordPress becomes the worldwide use publishing platforms these days. Indeed, many individuals find it very interesting because of many features they have, that actually different from the other blogging sites. They are not the typical publishing sites with limited features only.

In fact, it has several styles available that are included in the WordPress setting such as pages, posts and most popular the customizing admin area. Apart from, it has newly updated content management system for keeping all the procedures intact. In fact, WordPress is considered as one of the excellent CMS existing today. It is because they have various features that cater for all types of users, whether you are a publisher, co-authors or average consumer. Moreover, they have systematized graphic interface, which needed for commands. Just like, for instance, in handling several posts, editing and Export feature.

However, the WordPress to some people is difficult if you don’t have any idea on the main features. Furthermore, we are making now this information a lot easier for our valued customer as well as customizing the admin area. This process can be done individually by following diligently the steps below.

Removing Meta Boxes with the use of Editing Pages

Usually, the user interface for editing and making post or pages is commonly used, especially in the Admin area. Sometimes, it is the visible features that you normally see when you open your blog. Although, some considered this clutter and needs to be remove. However, removing this will help you at the same time to download your theme a bit faster.

Moreover, if you don’t need the excerpts field or custom fields, you can either delete them from your site by using accurate snippet code. Usually, the snippet code is remove_meta_box() function. Then again, set all the parameters first before starting a new process. Actually, the first parameter will look like this: meta box’s HTML ID, but this is only the sample feature you want to remove. Apart from, you can use the Web Developer Toolbar if you want to determine your ID feature value in such section in which consisting of <div>. Just, for instance, your Custom ID is #postcustom, therefore, the parameters you’re going to use is postcustom. Then, your second parameter is the page, but actually it can be either of the following: link, post and page. Moreover, you can also delete the trackbacks checkbox and custom field as well as status of the comments.

Deleting Items from the Page Columns and Post

Typically, the WordPress Admin area can display all your content lists by using tables in grid or columns. However, if you change your mind and decided to delete the columns, you can actually do it by using add_filter() WordPress function. In fact, a filter is also functions that are looking for data being call from the source of database.

Customizing your Favorites Dropdown

Actually, favorites can be found at the top most of the Admin area bar as well as the new tasks. Including Comments and New Post, though you can still modify them if you want.

WordPress is one of the greats as far as a platform is concerned and so say over 25 million other people. The list of users is growing daily and the reason must be obvious to see. It’s easy to use and almost everything you need is there at the touch of a button. If it’s not installed in the basic program it is available as a plug-in or widget. One of the problems with it is however that because it is a broad based platform it has to accommodate everyone and as a result the platform as a whole can have many functions you might never use. When this happens it’s a good idea to customize the admin area to enable it to load a whole lot faster.

One of the things you can do is use hooks: Either actions or filters

A full text on the matter will be found on WordPress under hooks but we will run through a few of the basics here.

Actions hooks happen when a particular thing happens in the basic core of WordPress. This sets up the scenario to set a sequence of events into action.

Filters are what WordPress sends into action when it modifies text to send it to the servers or to the database. This can be changed using an Api Filter with an add_filter() function. The complete rundown of this is under Hooks and Filters on WordPress.
What is about to happen is that these are going to be used to remove unwanted fields in your WordPress admin panel.

Let us start with the functions.php

Open your file and let’s start. First do a test. Put in the follow code

The result should be print of Hello world. Now remove the code again because we now know it works.

Now its time to disable widgets one the Dashboard

There are several widgets there that we will never use and it might be a good idea to get rid of as many as we can that we are sure we won’t use. This will speed up your load time considerably. Go into the Dashboard setup area and we will then proceed to disable a number of them. First we use the Unset () function to take out the ones we do not want shown.
Now  add_action() by using ‘wp_dashboard_setup’ to begin with in your functions and then named remove_dashboard_widgets, in the  second place.
This is the code you need to use.

All the full instructions are available on WordPress under removing widgets.

In total WordPress comes with twelve std. widgets. To disable any in a theme you need to drag them back from the sidebar in order to deactivate them.
Any that you have changed in order to use a third party widget in place of it can be deactivated.

Uncluttering the menu

Some menu items might never be used and its time to clean them up. Some on the top of the list can be removed using the code below.

In addition you can disable sub menu items as well with the following code

You will be able to find your submenu items in the admin/menu.php sub area.
That should clean up a lot of your dashboard.

Well, the little snip arrived, and all is good. She is just as charming as ever, and it will be hard to resist as she tries to wheedle me to get her way. Luckily, the weather has cleared so she is able to play to her hearts content in the garden while I sit under the oak with the laptop.  She is fascinated by the laptop as she only has the desktop and thinks the laptop is just her size. Actually, I make her sound like a little monster, but she is very good. The initial excitement of arriving by plane was all good. She was a little overtired yesterday I think. I know I didn’t sleep much the night before, and I am sure she didn’t either.  However, they arrived and are here for the week, so I will be a happy chap for the while. I must admit I do miss them when they aren’t within driving distance. However, the snips or snippets are awaiting us.

I will carry on from where I left off.

1.Most Talked About post

 Would you like to know what the mostly talked about posts on your blog were this year?  It’s a case of bringing them into view with a few snippets of code and changing the dates to bring it up to date, and there they will appear.
Wp Recipe has the code available for you. Just bring it up to date.

2. Keep Your Admin Section Private.

Matt has been kind enough to share with us how to make these vital areas safe on our blogs. If you head on over to his web site at Matt Cutts you can learn all about it.

3. Give yourself Style

Darren Hoyt has a few suggestions as to how to use some code and a download to give yourself a something different on your blog. He offers three various items you can look at.

4. Widgets

There is a way sometimes widgets are in places that we just don’t want them. Well there is a way to move or remove them without actually altering the basic template. Justin Tadlock has a few suggestions to make on his website.

5. Add Your Info Box First

You know how sometimes you just want your own info to appear first?
Well, Lam Nguyen has this little tit bit of a snippet to offer you. It’s available on WordPress Hacks.

 
6. Make Your Own Decision on What Will Show or Not

Not everything has to show. That’s the rebel in me coming out. This site has a variety of hacks and things that you can alter, and you will find many items to use at Hongkiat.

7. Spread your Words

By that I mean use a Feed burner. With some .php code in the right place, it’s possible. Jeff Starr has come up with some excellent .php code for us to use rather than having to use a plug in.
At the end of the day folks, would you rather start to learn how to do a little coding by listening to the guys who know, or would you rather stick to plug-ins which can eventually weigh your web site down until it almost so slow people leave. Get yourself a clean and lean machine.