Widgetized Admin Dashboard

Widgetized Admin Dashboard is a WordPress Plugin for 2.5+ that lets you edit the WordPress Dashboard in the Design > Widgets area.

It also removes the WordPress Developer News and WP Planet News that many consider to be “Dashboard Spam” and lets you see exactly what you want to see on your dashboard.

With Widgetized Admin Dashboard, you can now edit your dashboard just like you edit sidebars!
Current Version: 1.6 (May 30, 2008)

Download: Download Widgetized Admin Dashboard Here (Via the WP Extend SVN)

WordPress Compatibility: Tested on 2.5

History:

Well, for a long time, I’ve been trying to find a way to create a dashboard with content that I can control. I even went as far as creating a completely new dashboard that utilized Widgets in 2.3.x, but it was never good enough to release. (Read: There were tons of bugs)

But, with the release of 2.5, the WP Dashboard saw a great upgrade to “widgets” – except for the fact that you couldn’t move them, change their size, or really do much at all. So really the only upgrade was that now you didn’t have to wait on the Developer and Planet news to load before you could click a link. Good progress, but why not go that one step further and let people edit the widgets like they can with sidebar widgets? The code is already there!

So I started coding my widgetized dashboard from the ground up, utilizing 2.5′s new dashboard, and now have a viable, editable, quality dashboard. I stocked it with RSS feeds that I frequent, and now I’m good to go.

Installation Instructions:

1. Upload
2. Activate
3. Go to Design > Widgets and choose the “WordPress Dashboard” sidebar option from the drop down
4. Add widgets to your heart’s content!

When you select “WordPress Dashboard” 4 new widgets will show up at the bottom of the widget list, all starting with “Dashboard: ”

3 are the same admin widgets that come with WP – Recent Comments, Incoming Links, and Plugins.

The fourth, RSS, is a modified version of the sidebar RSS widget – it does the same thing, but includes some new options, like height, width, and a drop down that includes some popular RSS feeds from blogs about WordPress.

Known Bugs:
None