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Hide The WordPress Dashboard and wp-admin COMPLETELY!

Last Updated on Thursday, 9 September 2010 09:27
Written by Erock
Wednesday, 8 September 2010 04:04

WordPress 3 Compatible

I have seen several plugins that “hide” the dashboard from subscribers, but none that functions as I want.
I don’t want it to allow only the tools, and profile page. I want it to straight kick the user out of the dashboard!

So, I wrote my own plugin that does that. If anyone that is not an admin (cannot activate plugins) attempts to access the dashboard via url or link, they are redirected to the front of the site. sorry, access denied..

Here is my code. Just drop this in your themes functions.php file and edit the url of the redirect to whatever you want.

{code type=php}
//hook onto dashboard and redirect all non admin to front site
add_action(“admin_init”,”redirect_nonadmin_fromdash”);
function redirect_nonadmin_fromdash(){
if (!current_user_can(‘activate_plugins’)) {
// Edit Line Below For Your Own Redirect
header( ‘Location: http://www.erikshosting.com’ ) ;
}
}
{/code}
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10 Comments

  1. Vladimir
    September 23, 2010 at 6:44 pm

    Excellent decision! Been looking for and then you helped me. Realized directly on the site. Immediately save 4 MB memory on the server!

    Reply
  2. cblock
    October 19, 2010 at 6:37 pm

    Great Stuff!
    is there away to allow dashboard access to the editor role as well?

    Reply
    1. Erock
      October 25, 2010 at 5:10 pm

      Yah,
      simply swap the part that says if (!current_user_can('activate_plugins'))
      with this:
      if (!current_user_can('publish_posts'))

      Thats it!

      Reply
  3. Rate My Muscles
    December 11, 2010 at 8:24 pm

    I don’t want my users kicked out of the dashboard. I just want some widgets to be removed off of it. Is that possible??

    Reply
  4. TD
    February 17, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    PERFECT! Changed a couple little things but this is perfect! Thanks.

    Reply
  6. Mayur
    August 8, 2011 at 1:38 am

    Hi,

    Can we hide through .htaccess file I have read that but when I do that its not working if you have any idea for that

    Thanks

    Reply
  7. Biyan
    December 24, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    How to redirect them when login to the latest visited page, such as get_permalink()?

    Reply
  8. Films Space
    February 15, 2012 at 3:10 am

    I want specific about this

    Reply
  9. liza
    January 9, 2013 at 3:10 am

    Great trick
    nice work!!

    Reply