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blog/content/articles/2008-07-15-wordpress-25-get-rid-of-that-sluggish-dashboard/index.md
Matthias Kretschmann 299084de93
Gatsby → Astro (#829)
* basic astro setup, kick out all gatsby configs

* move content folder

* src/pages setup

* more file reorg

* more config updates

* more reorgs

* refactor

* refactor

* bump astro

* refactor

* svg icon build system, theme switch

* remark plugin for lead paragraph, more refactor

* make images work

* post meta

* custom Picture component

* Pagination, More component, 404 fixes

* linking fixes

* add table of contents

* post actions fixes

* tag fixes

* content changes

* content changes: move media files to their posts

* more content moving, remove media folder

* refactor remark-lead-paragraph

* link css file when defined in post frontmatter

* move content up again

* kbd post update

* allow js

* downloads solution

* add astro check

* redirect_from solution

* githubLink solution

* reorg

* exif solution as prebuild step

* exif solution on each post during build

* isolate lead paragraph extraction to articles

* restore Exif components

* deploy script update

* fix redirects

* xml & json feeds

* build fix

* fix exif readout in production

* head and seo tweaks, add feeds

* tweak image display

* archive pages with single layout

* restore tags archive

* sitemap setup

* restore thanks page functionality

* reorg

* cleanup

* parallel scripts during prebuild

* restore jest setup

* remove jest, switch to vitest as test runner

* adapt CI

* test refactor

* typescript tweaks

* avatar fixes

* typings

* restore search functionality

* theme switch with nanostores

* fixes

* test fixes

* restore changelog functionality

* umami script

* border color tweak

* related posts with fuse.js

* plawright e2e testing setup

* search tweaks

* simplify typekit loading

* photo fix

* e2e tests

* related posts fix

* fix tags archive

* tweaks

* tweaks

* linux snapshots

* fix header test

* new symlink tactic

* fix dev server in codespaces

* fix yaml

* ci fixes

* changelog loading tweaks

* e2e against dev server on ci

* changelog tweaks

* ci tweaks

* ci tweaks

* ci tweaks

* docs updates

* ci tweaks

* refactor photo creation script

* package updates

* refactor search

* ci tweak

* ci tweaks

* test tweaks, more unit tests

* more unit tests

* post creation script tweaks

* refactor new scripts, test them for real life

* more tests

* refactor

* codeclimate-action update

* uses update

* limit ci runs

* fix theme toggle, test it

* more tests

* favicon files cleanup

* icon components location change

* type checking through ci

* command fixes

* ci fix

* search tweaks

* ci tweaks

* revised favicons, write post draft about it

* drafts filtering fix

* lint fix, favicon fixes

* copy changes

* fix related search images

* content updates

* new codeblock styles, copy tweaks, fixes

* package updates

* typing fixes

* lint fix

* content updates

* restore link posts

* faster theme switching

* split up astro utils

* related posts fixes

* fix

* refactor

* fixes

* copy tweaks

* fixes

* picture tweaks

* image fixes

* feed fixes, adapt for json feed v1.1

* e2e test updates

* layout tweaks

* update snaphots

* migrate to createMarkdownProcessor

* ci cache tweaks

* activate more browsers for e2e testing

* switch to macos-13 images

* build caching tweaks

* markdown fix

* set image quality

* remove avif generation

* picture tweaks

* head fixes

* add og:image:alt

* create-icons test

* new post: Favicon Generation with Astro
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---
title: 'Wordpress 2.5+: Get Rid of That Sluggish Dashboard'
author: Matthias Kretschmann
date: 2008-07-15 14:04:46+00:00
tags:
- design
- development
- tutorial
- wordpress
---
Since Wordpress 2.5 it was nearly impossible for me to log into Wordpress and quickly head over to the write tab. The Dashboard always wants to load a bunch of things in it but this always seemed to fail in my setup and slow things down. And not enough the Dashboard just locks everything up while loading which can take more than one minute.
![Wordpress Logo by kremalicious](./wordpress-logo.png)
I've searched for a simple way of disabling those feeds, plugins etc. stuff the Wordpress Dashboard tries to fill but it seems you can't disable these from the backend. But there's a quick way for doing this which involves editing your `/wp-admin/index-extra.php` and uncomment some lines there. This will leave your Dashboard intact while it stops Wordpress from connecting to various sources to screw your blog up when you just want to quickly write something.
So open your `/wp-admin/index-extra.php` file. It should look like this:
```php
<?php
require_once('admin.php');
require( 'includes/dashboard.php' );
require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php');
@header('Content-Type: ' . get_option('html_type') . '; charset=' . get_option('blog_charset'));
switch ( $_GET['jax'] ) {
case 'incominglinks' :
wp_dashboard_incoming_links_output();
break;
case 'devnews' :
wp_dashboard_rss_output( 'dashboard_primary' );
break;
case 'planetnews' :
wp_dashboard_secondary_output();
break;
case 'plugins' :
wp_dashboard_plugins_output();
break;
}
?>
```
Now just uncomment the lines so it looks like this (every line with leading `//` is commented and therefore inactive):
```php
<?php
require_once('admin.php');
require( 'includes/dashboard.php' );
// require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php');
@header('Content-Type: ' . get_option('html_type') . '; charset=' . get_option('blog_charset'));
// switch ( $_GET['jax'] ) {
//
// case 'incominglinks' :
// wp_dashboard_incoming_links_output();
// break;
//
// case 'devnews' :
// wp_dashboard_rss_output( 'dashboard_primary' );
// break;
//
// case 'planetnews' :
// wp_dashboard_secondary_output();
// break;
//
// case 'plugins' :
// wp_dashboard_plugins_output();
// break;
//
// }
?>
```
And that's it. Save the file on your server, log in to your Wordpress backend and you should see your Dashboard with everything intact. It just won't search for incoming links and all those other RSS sources anymore.
Remember that every update of Wordpress will overwrite this file.