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Dashboard Widget (Without Controls) Sample Plugin

WordPress 2.5 has the ability to customize your administration dashboard with the help of widgets.

After poking around WordPress 2.5 codes, I have come out with this Dashboard Widget Sample Plugin. BUT do note that this plugin does not include Dashboard Widget Controls. If I have the time, I will add that in or perhaps I will create another plugin called “Dashboard Widget (With Controls) Sample Plugin”.

To get a clearer picture of what this sample plugin does, here is a screenshot of the Dashboard Widget (Without Controls) Sample in action.

Here comes the code:

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<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Dashboard Widget (Without Controls) Sample
Plugin URI: http://lesterchan.net
Description: A sample on how to add widgets on your dashboard easily.
Version: 0.01
Author: Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
Author URI: http://lesterchan.net
*/
 
/*
 
Replace all instances of PLUGINNAME with your nice plugin name something like "polls" or "ratings (without the quotes)
 
*/
 
### Function: Register Dashboard Widget
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'PLUGINNAME_register_dashboard_widget');
function PLUGINNAME_register_dashboard_widget() {
	wp_register_sidebar_widget('dashboard_PLUGINNAME', __('Sample Dashboard Widget', 'PLUGINNAME'), 'dashboard_PLUGINNAME',
		array(
		'all_link' => 'Full URL For "See All" link', // Example: 'index.php?page=wp-useronline/wp-useronline.php'
		'feed_link' => 'Full URL For "RSS" link', // Example: 'index.php?page=wp-useronline/wp-useronline-rss.php'
		'width' => 'half', // OR 'fourth', 'third', 'half', 'full' (Default: 'half')
		'height' => 'single', // OR 'single', 'double' (Default: 'single')
		)
	);
}
 
### Function: Add Dashboard Widget
add_filter('wp_dashboard_widgets', 'PLUGINNAME_add_dashboard_widget');
function PLUGINNAME_add_dashboard_widget($widgets) {
	global $wp_registered_widgets;
	if (!isset($wp_registered_widgets['dashboard_PLUGINNAME'])) {
		return $widgets;
	}
	array_splice($widgets, sizeof($widgets)-1, 0, 'dashboard_PLUGINNAME');
	return $widgets;
}
 
### Function: Print Dashboard Widget
function dashboard_PLUGINNAME($sidebar_args) {
	global $wpdb;
	extract($sidebar_args, EXTR_SKIP);
	echo $before_widget;
	echo $before_title;
	echo $widget_name;
	echo $after_title;
	echo 'YOUR CONTENT GOES IN HERE';
	echo $after_widget;
}
?>

You can also download the file by clicking the link below:

  Dashboard Widget (Without_Controls) Sample Plugin (873 bytes, 2,060 hits)

Hope this helps some of you guys. =)

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 01:46 and is filed under Sample Plugins. It has accumulated a total of 4,000 views. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Dashboard Widget (Without Controls) Sample Plugin”

  1. minimedj says:
    19th March 2008 at 17:13

    Oh man…

    Sorry, didn’t read your article properly :-) Nice stuff and very useful!

    please, tell me how you insert colorized php code in your post?

  2. GaMerZ says:
    19th March 2008 at 17:50

    I removed the comments as it is pasting code.Google for WP-Syntax

  3. Damian says:
    2nd April 2008 at 10:01

    Do you know how to remove the default WP dashboard widgets?

  4. GaMerZ says:
    2nd April 2008 at 14:14

    Use this plugin by Viper – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dashboard-widget-manager/