WordPress 3.8 introduces a new way to display the dashboard. If you don’t like it and would love to bring back the good old single-column dashboard, here’s a quick tip for you.

Bringing back the single-column dashboard in WordPress 3.8 is pretty easy: just add this code to your theme’s functions.php file.

 // force one-column dashboard function shapeSpace_screen_layout_columns($columns) { 	$columns['dashboard'] = 1; 	return $columns; } add_filter('screen_layout_columns', 'shapeSpace_screen_layout_columns');  function shapeSpace_screen_layout_dashboard() { return 1; } add_filter('get_user_option_screen_layout_dashboard', 'shapeSpace_screen_layout_dashboard'); 

Thanks to Jeff Starr for the tip!