Title: EM Dashboard
Author: Sybre Waaijer
Published: <strong>August 6, 2015</strong>
Last modified: April 16, 2023

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# EM Dashboard

 By [Sybre Waaijer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cybr/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/em-dashboard.1.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/em-dashboard/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/em-dashboard/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/em-dashboard/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/em-dashboard/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/em-dashboard/)

## Description

#### Easy Mode Dashboard

**Simplify your dashboard with easy mode**

WordPress can be quite overwhelming for new users, the EM Dashboard resolves that
in one click.

This plugin allows you to:

 * Clean up your dashboard with a single button.
 * Enable default Easy Mode setting for new users.
 * Enforce the Easy Mode settings.
 * Enable or disable the Easy Mode button.
 * Optionally load a soft grey new theme.
 * Set default color scheme for new users.
 * Remove the color scheme selection.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The EM Dashboard Settings (as of 1.0.0). In MultiSite environments it’s located
   under Network Settings
 * [[
 * Easy Mode removes many meta (confusing) boxes and menu’s
 * [[
 * Experimental EM Dashboard Theme (as of 1.0.0)
 * [[
 * Experimental EM Dashboard Theme with Easy Mode on (as of 1.0.0)

## Installation

 1. Install EM Dashboard either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading
    the files to your server.
 2. Either Network Activate this plugin or activate it on a single site.
 3. If you’re on a MultiSite network, you can set up the default options for the whole
    network in your Network Settings menu.
 4. If you’re on a Single Site installation, you can set up the default options within
    the Settings menu.
 5. That’s it! Enjoy!

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“EM Dashboard” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Sybre Waaijer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cybr/)

[Translate “EM Dashboard” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/em-dashboard)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/em-dashboard/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/em-dashboard/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/em-dashboard/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/em-dashboard/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.0

 * Improved security, although nothing critical was found.
 * This plugin now only loads its files on admin screens.

#### 1.0.8

 * Reworked: Many functions to improve plugin speed.
 * Added: WordPress.org translation compatibility.
 * Added: POT File.
 * Added: PHP level Caches.
 * Changed: Minimum capability from `edit_plugins` to `install_plugins` so that 
   the menu pages can be accessed when the Editor has been disabled in MultiSite.
 * Cleaned up code.

#### 1.0.7

 * Fixed: A minor security issue, which also caused a minor memory leak.
 * Fixed: WordPress 4.4.0 metabox styling compatibility.
 * Fixed: WordPress 4.4.0 nav tab styling compatibility.

#### 1.0.6.1

 * Fixed: The tablet overflow fix applies to RTL as well now.

#### 1.0.6

 * Changed: Optimized plugin performance.
 * Fixed: Minor WP_DEBUG issue with bbPress.
 * Fixed: The Easy Mode switch doesn’t overflow anymore on tablets (caused by wrongly
   minified .css script).
 * Removed: The “More coming soon!” tab, I do not have the time at the moment to
   upgrade this plugin to an all-in-one admin solution.
 * Unchanged: This plugin still receives active support and bugfixes.
 * Cleaned up code.

#### 1.0.5

 * Fixed: Mobile admin bar icon color is now white when using the EM Dashboard Theme.
 * Changed: CSS and JS are now called from an absolute path instead of a relative
   path.
 * Added: Minified CSS and Javascript files.

#### 1.0.4

 * Cleaned up CSS
 * Fixed: Messed up layout in customizer preview when EM Dashboard Styles are activated.

#### 1.0.3

 * Fixed: Language subsets for Google Fonts when using Greek/Cyrillic/Vietnamese
   characters.
 * Added: Easy Mode button from Network Admin Screen is now removed (it has no use
   there)
 * Added: RTL support for the Space Grey theme
 * Added: Removal of default color styles if the EM Dashboard (Space Grey) theme
   is active.
 * Rewritten: EM Dashboard Space Grey Theme (is now standalone)
 * Added: EM Dashboard Space Grey RTL support
 * Added: EM Button RTL support

#### 1.0.2

 * Added post/page slug to the not-easy metabox list
 * Made sure the admin can’t get stuck in easy mode out by turning off the EM button
   while in Easy Mode.
 * Minimum Non-Forced Capability now also applies on showing the Easy Mode button
   or not.
 * Changed “Enable the Easy Mode Feature” option title as it was confusing (Enable
   Easy Mode Button).
 * Applied rescue mode in showing the EM button for the set capability.
 * Made the Easy Mode default setting change have effect.
 * Added back the seperator beneath “Dashboard” in easy mode.
 * Cleaned up more code.

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixed the Merriweather font calling
 * Changed default minimum forced mode to Administrator (only has effect on MultiSite)
 * Changed access modifier for get_option
 * Tested out the filters, they work! 🙂
 * Added filters in the Other Notes tab for developers including rescue mode.
 * Greatly improved (i.e. speed & security) removal of pages/metaboxes.
 * Fixed link metabox removal
 * Added update-core.php to the not-easy list.
 * Cleaned up code

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial Release
 * PHP5.2 to PHP7 compatible
 * MultiSite and Single Site compatible.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.0**
 *  Last updated **3 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.8.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.2.9**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/em-dashboard/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[dashboard](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)
   [easy](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/easy/)[mode](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/mode/)
   [multisite](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/multisite/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/em-dashboard/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Sybre Waaijer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cybr/)

## Support

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