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Hiding the “Welcome to your new WordPress site” message

Sitting here working on setting up a WordPress network and hit a snag. New sites have a giant “Welcome to your new WordPress site” message when someone logs in for the first time.

Now, I’m not against the message; and WordPress should definitely market where ever they can. But I’d like to be able to customize the layout a bit. Still plan on keeping links to WP and all of that, just want to add in some of my own welcome message.

Googling didn’t turn up anything except editing the core WordPress code which is a terrible idea. I don’t want to have to redo it every time WP upgrades. And it looks like there isn’t a hook or filter that can make it easy. So I had to make it ugly.

Series Tag WordPress Plugin

Just finished a new WordPress and am now just waiting for the WP plugin people to create the SVN folder for it it’s up and ready for download.

It’s called Series Tag and adds a short code that will display a list of all posts with a specific tag. I wrote it because I want to do a series of posts here and figured tagging them all with the same tag and having WordPress take care of building the links would be easier than doing it manually.

Quick, and boring, screen shot