WordPress 2.0/1.5.x Hack: How to trim the fat resource hogging Admin DashBoard
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkSaturday, March 19, 2005
I got tired of the fat, resource-hogging DashBoard shipped with WordPress 1.5. It gets feed from God-knows-how-many WordPress blogs for no good reason and without my (or your) consent.
Update: This also works on WordPress 2.0.
It comes up the first thing when you login to admin. I don’t like any of that. This thing downloads even when I am on my home setup running WordPress from localhost!
So despite my reluctance to modify core WordPress code, I just couldn’t take it any longer.
So I hacked the code, trimmed it of all fat and made it look lean and mean on an Atkins diet. In other words you have all the cool info about your blogs, as before, without any irrelevant information. As a result it doesn’t need to query other blogs (fetch feeds etc) and as such loads much faster.
In the original version some people informed that it takes as much as 75 seconds on slow DNS to load!
Take a look at the screenshot. If you like it, feel free to download. Grab the index.php and drop it in wp-admin directory, replacing the original file. You must make a backup of the original file before that (and everything else under the Sun if you so like).
Drop me a word/pingback/trackback if you find it useful. A linkback would be highly appreciated.
Update: Please download the version 2 of this file here. It contains few time-saving enhancements (without any performance penalties).
Note: If you find this plugin useful, please consider contributing to ensure development of more such plugins and maintenance.
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April 5, 2007: 4:53 am
Its very interesting to see this code been given here. Before reading this I did edit code to show only 1/4th amount of feed, but you have encouraged me to get rid of that and add some useful information for my self and other blogger. i think i will b glad to network wid u .. |
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August 15, 2006: 4:52 am
thanks for the hack - I also commented out the fetch_rss call to technorati, because that was adding 30+ seconds to my heavily firewalled intranet blog |
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January 4, 2006: 6:50 am
Hi Angsuman (2) Do you have any idea why the ‘Incoming’ RSS call to Technorati sometimes works but most times just comes up empty? The original dashboard seems to get this feed back every time and having looked at the code I see it is identical. But it’s patchy which is curious…. |
 Carl |
December 31, 2005: 11:16 am
Just installed WP2 and couldn’t figure out WHY they didn’t have a way to disable that lousy dashboard. (it was taking 60-90 seconds to log in!) Thank you ever so much, now I feel a LOT better working with WP2 but still mad why they didn’t include your hack in WP2. |
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December 12, 2005: 12:11 am
Thank you so much, I have been trying to figure out how to get that “crap” of the dashboard all day. I don’t understand why they put that there in the first place except to try to steal my traffic. |
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August 17, 2005: 11:36 am
I had the exact same feelings, but I didn’t know about yours so I wrote my own. I added a few different features in case anyone’s interested: https://dan.hersam.com/archives/2005/08/17/new-wordpress-dashboard |
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July 19, 2005: 9:09 am
@CT So DashBoard Hack is all the goodies of DashBoard minus the pain-in-the-neck-feeds |
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July 19, 2005: 6:36 am
While I appreciate the work you put into the hack, wouldn’t an easier workaround — just for avoiding the Dashboard — have been to link directly to the Write page (ala the default admin destination under WP 1.2)? So instead of having your admin bookmark/link point to “blog.com/wordpress/wp-admin”, you point it to “blog.com/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php” (or edit.php, or anything). Just a thought. |
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June 8, 2005: 6:49 pm
This is very nice modification. I have done it and the dashboard load very fast now. Thanks…! |
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June 3, 2005: 10:01 am
You have no idea how close I was to giving up before I found your hack…. my dashboard page took about 30 secs to login before, and now I can get it in less than 2 secs! |
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