WordPress 2.5 has the ability to customize your administration dashboard with the help of widgets.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
To get a clearer picture of what this sample plugin does, here is a screenshot of the Dashboard Widget (Without Controls) Sample<\/a> in action.<\/p>\n Here comes the code:<\/p>\n Hope this helps some of you guys. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading “Dashboard Widget (Without Controls) Sample Plugin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[60,66,68,67],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sample-plugins","tag-60","tag-dashboard","tag-sample","tag-widget"],"views":12956,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n 'Full URL For \"See All\" link', \/\/ Example: 'index.php?page=wp-useronline\/wp-useronline.php'\r\n\t\t'feed_link' => 'Full URL For \"RSS\" link', \/\/ Example: 'index.php?page=wp-useronline\/wp-useronline-rss.php'\r\n\t\t'width' => 'half', \/\/ OR 'fourth', 'third', 'half', 'full' (Default: 'half')\r\n\t\t'height' => 'single', \/\/ OR 'single', 'double' (Default: 'single')\r\n\t\t)\r\n\t);\r\n}\r\n\r\n### Function: Add Dashboard Widget\r\nadd_filter('wp_dashboard_widgets', 'PLUGINNAME_add_dashboard_widget');\r\nfunction PLUGINNAME_add_dashboard_widget($widgets) {\r\n\tglobal $wp_registered_widgets;\r\n\tif (!isset($wp_registered_widgets['dashboard_PLUGINNAME'])) {\r\n\t\treturn $widgets;\r\n\t}\r\n\tarray_splice($widgets, sizeof($widgets)-1, 0, 'dashboard_PLUGINNAME');\r\n\treturn $widgets;\r\n}\r\n\r\n### Function: Print Dashboard Widget\r\nfunction dashboard_PLUGINNAME($sidebar_args) {\r\n\tglobal $wpdb;\r\n\textract($sidebar_args, EXTR_SKIP);\r\n\techo $before_widget;\r\n\techo $before_title;\r\n\techo $widget_name;\r\n\techo $after_title;\r\n\techo 'YOUR CONTENT GOES IN HERE';\r\n\techo $after_widget;\r\n}\r\n?>\r\n<\/pre>\n
![screenshot of the Dashboard Widget (Without Controls) Sample<\/a> in action.<\/p>\nHere comes the code:<\/p>\n\r\n 'Full URL For \"See All\" link', \/\/ Example: 'index.php?page=wp-useronline\/wp-useronline.php'\r\n\t\t'feed_link' => 'Full URL For \"RSS\" link', \/\/ Example: 'index.php?page=wp-useronline\/wp-useronline-rss.php'\r\n\t\t'width' => 'half', \/\/ OR 'fourth', 'third', 'half', 'full' (Default: 'half')\r\n\t\t'height' => 'single', \/\/ OR 'single', 'double' (Default: 'single')\r\n\t\t)\r\n\t);\r\n}\r\n\r\n### Function: Add Dashboard Widget\r\nadd_filter('wp_dashboard_widgets', 'PLUGINNAME_add_dashboard_widget');\r\nfunction PLUGINNAME_add_dashboard_widget($widgets) {\r\n\tglobal $wp_registered_widgets;\r\n\tif (!isset($wp_registered_widgets['dashboard_PLUGINNAME'])) {\r\n\t\treturn $widgets;\r\n\t}\r\n\tarray_splice($widgets, sizeof($widgets)-1, 0, 'dashboard_PLUGINNAME');\r\n\treturn $widgets;\r\n}\r\n\r\n### Function: Print Dashboard Widget\r\nfunction dashboard_PLUGINNAME($sidebar_args) {\r\n\tglobal $wpdb;\r\n\textract($sidebar_args, EXTR_SKIP);\r\n\techo $before_widget;\r\n\techo $before_title;\r\n\techo $widget_name;\r\n\techo $after_title;\r\n\techo 'YOUR CONTENT GOES IN HERE';\r\n\techo $after_widget;\r\n}\r\n?>\r\n<\/pre>\nHope this helps some of you guys. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 … Continue reading “Dashboard Widget (Without Controls) Sample Plugin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[60,66,68,67],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sample-plugins","tag-60","tag-dashboard","tag-sample","tag-widget"],"views":12956,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/files.lesterchan.net\/viewing\/screenshots\/dashboard_widget_sample.png\/\"){kind=link}