Hiding WP Dashboard

[Curtis Carmichael]

What plugins work best to hide the dashboard from non admins? Use case: I added a classified ad section and when users edit their ad, they see the WP dashboard.

[Bheki]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-dashboard-access-for-non-admins/

[Christopher Williams]

The White Label CMS plugin is for developers who want to give their clients a more personalised and less confusing content management system

For a video overview of the changes in 1.5 and how this affects WordPress 3.4 please visit the White Label CMS home hosted on the WordPress Manual Plugin website.

WordPress 3.3’s new admin bar has restricted the type of branding you can have for clients, which is why we have introduced the ability to brand the dashboard.

You also have the ability to choose which menus are visible. We have 3 CMS profiles available as presets: Website, Blog or Custom so you can modify the menu system to suit the CMS purpose. These only apply to the user role of Editor and below. Admins will see all menus.

You can also give Editors access to the Menu and Widgets, but the switch theme option will not appear.

White Label CMS allows you to remove all the panels from the WordPress dashboard and insert your own panel, which you can use to write 2 personalised messages to your client and link to the important elements in the CMS.

It also allows you to add custom logos to the header and footer as well as the all important login page, giving your client a better branded experience of their new website.

There is also the option to hide the nag update as well.

No longer will you have to tell your clients to ignore the dashboard!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/white-label-cms/