[wp-hackers] Plugin: Dashboard Widgets Manager

[Viper007Bond]

I'm not reinventing the wheel. Infact, the whole plugin that made my
previous screenshot is only ~150 lines so far.

The dashboard is actually just a regular sidebar with regular widgets, but
they are only registered when you are actually viewing the dashboard
(because you don't want them to show up on the regular sidebar and widget
editor). I'm merely extending that so they are also registered on my manage
page and then I use some hackery to use the existing manage widget functions
to show the dashboard "sidebar" and widgets.

As for your link, it's fairly obsolete now as 2.5 introduces a new widget
manager (which is what my page is using):
http://pic.phyrefile.com/2008/03/23/2point5widgets.png

Thanks though! :)

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:33 AM, sewpafly <sewpafly at gmail.com> wrote:

> I still need to test this plugin, but it was working for me on 2.3.3,
> you might want to check it out before you get too far along...
>
>
> http://sharebrain.info/journal/sbwordpressplugins/sidebar-modules-reloaded/1666/
>
> sewpafly
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com>
> wrote:
> > Just thought I'd inform the list that I'm working on a widget manager
> for
> >  the new dashboard (the dashboard isn't rearrangeable out of the box). I
> >  didn't want anyone else starting their own version thinking no one else
> was
> >  working on one (I heard a couple people tossing the idea around).
> >
> >  Preview: http://pic.phyrefile.com/2008/03/23/dashboardwidgets.png ("Latest
> >  Spam" is created by a seperate plugin of mine)
> >
> >  The double text is kinda a WordPress bug, but I may end up working
> around it
> >  if it doesn't get patched ( see http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6349).
> >
> >  I'll post an alpha/beta once I hack together preference saving (the
> save
> >  button currently does nothing).
> >
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