This plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

Dobby

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.

Installation

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.

Reviews

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! 🙂
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.
August 14, 2017
Every time I see Dobby instead of clutter, I briefly smile inside. House elves are great.
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!
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Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

“Dobby” has been translated into 12 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Dobby” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Change log

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.