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Dobby

by Thorsten Frommen

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Description

Dobby, the friendly Admin Elf, takes care of all your (unwanted) admin notices.

Contribution

To contribute to this plugin, please see its GitHub repository.

If you have a feature request, or if you have developed the feature already, please feel free to use the Issues and/or Pull Requests section.

Of course, you can also provide me with translations if you would like to use the plugin in another not yet included language.

This plugin requires PHP 5.4.

  1. Upload the wp-dobby folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory on your web server.
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
  3. See only a single admin notice, if at all.

Nice simple and effective

By naresh11381 on February 6, 2018

Great little plugin. Does what it says it will do. Would be awesome to see some functionality added, things like an option to put the message in the toolbar with just a number or similar. Maybe even an option to enable/disable on a plugin by plugin basis. Might be possible to port some of WP Hide Plugin Updates and Warnings functionality over. Great stuff all the same! 🙂

Works almost as promised

By rja.tcu on January 17, 2018

Unwanted notices from other plugins are gone, but unfortunately Dobby creates another new entry. It would be better to move the Dobby notice in the top admin bar, as it is done by "WP Notification Center", which unfortunately had been discontinued. Therefore I'm now using "WP Hide Plugin Updates and Warnings", but would switch back to Dobby as soon as its notice could be removed from the main dashboard area to somewhere else.

i always wanted a house elf. thanks!

By emilysparkle on November 13, 2017

works just as i expected. might be nice to be able to see what has been logged as an admin notice somewhere or set an interval (see notices weekly, etc).

Excellent work

By Nuno Sarmento (nunosarmento) on September 22, 2017

Thank you very much for making this free for everyone 🙂

Thank you, Dobby!

By con (conschneider) on August 14, 2017

Every time I see Dobby instead of clutter, I briefly smile inside. House elves are great.

I kept on thinking of making something like this....

By Mayank Gupta (mayankgupta) on August 6, 2017

Believe me or not, I wanted to make this plugin but Thorsten made it and he's done a far more smarter job than what I was thinking. I was thinking of doing a far more complex job, however Thorsten did a smarter job of just hiding and revealing. 5 stars for the fact that it does what its supposed to and I wish I could give one or two more stars for smartness behind it!

Great work, Thorsten

By FolioVision on August 4, 2017

Wonderful work. We've built something similar inside our BusinessPress plugin (also manages updates, exposes hidden preferences & reduces WordPress branding). It would be great to join forces in fighting evil admin plugin notifications. Keep up the great work making WordPress the publisher-friendly CMS it deserves to be. Alec

really a favourite

By Daniel (dhoffmann) on August 4, 2017

thanks a lot. more than just a good idea. a must have. installed it on my sites today.

$this = 'amazing!'

By Smat Placid (www_smatplacid_com) on August 3, 2017

No more spamming-admin-notes! Yhey! Many many thanks to the author.

Thanks GOD!!

By darrell_rushhour on August 2, 2017

Been trying to figure out how to EASILY hide nags forever. This was the answer. Its nice because some nags are important but most are just annoying pushing the screen down. This lets you hide all but a handy reveal button if you want to check for any important ones.

1.4.0

  • Bump “Tested up to” header, see issue #12.

1.3.0

  • Fix dismissible notices not being able to get dismissed, see issue #9.
  • Add PHP_CodeSniffer, and adapt code.
  • Pass custom selectors to JavaScript.

1.2.1

  • Fix output buffering priority.

1.2.0

  • WordPress.org release.

1.1.1

  • Only ignore images for export (e.g., the generated ZIP file).

1.1.0

  • Add \tfrommen\Dobby\FILTER_THRESHOLD to filter the minimum number of admin notices required for Dobby to take action.
  • Add … MAGIC.
  • Make Dobby reveal the captured admin notices once and for all instead of toggling them.
  • Make Dobby pick up the according notice level based on what admin notices he captured—error wins over warning, otherwise it is an info.
  • Make Dobby also capture admin notices with only the error or updated class.

1.0.1

  • Move load_plugin_textdomain() call to where it actually is needed.
  • Add missing Text Domain information in plugin header.
  • Fix typos.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.
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