What I did was I looke in the index.php file, in the wp-admin directory, then look for the line which says:
<h2><?php _e('Dashboard'); ?></h2>
This is where the main body of the dashboard starts. Then on the next line, you can put the if statement.
<?php if ($user_level != '10') { ?>
You can change the user level to anything you want really, you could make it so that it’s only for level one authors…etc.
Then you can put your friendly welcome message, and after that, you must put:
<?php } else { ?>
This allows the real dashboard to be shown if the user level is 10.
Below the line which says:
<li><a href='<?php echo wp_filter_kses($item['link']); ?>'><?php echo wp_specialchars($item['title']); ?></a></li>
You must close the if statement, else you get lots of errors, which are anything but friendly. You need the code:
<?php } ?>
Simple! If you run into problems, you can email me from my site.
