With recent WordPress 3.8 version, a whole new way of dashboard make its way BUT if you, just like many others, don’t like it, then not to worry as with the following snippet you will be able to bring back the single-column dashboard. Simply add the code to your theme’s functions.php file and you will be able to bring back single-column dashboard in WordPress 3.8.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | function shapeSpace_screen_layout_columns($columns) { $columns['dashboard'] = 1; return $columns; } add_filter('screen_layout_columns', 'shapeSpace_screen_layout_columns'); function shapeSpace_screen_layout_dashboard() { return 1; } add_filter('get_user_option_screen_layout_dashboard', 'shapeSpace_screen_layout_dashboard'); |
Snippet Source/Credit: Jeff Starr