[wp-hackers] Plugin: Dashboard Widgets Manager

sewpafly sewpafly at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 23:26:21 GMT 2008


Now I see.  Must. Pay. Attention. to. Subject.  I jumped the gun a
little there when I saw widgets...

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
> 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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