16 Responses to “Dashboard Heaven”

1. uberVU - social comments says:

   February 27, 2010 at 02:06

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   This post was mentioned on Twitter by davekinkead: Just released v0.1 of Dashboard Heaven for #WordPress. Full widget to user control. http://bit.ly/9FpoPs...
2. lochgelly says:

   March 4, 2010 at 23:17

   Thank you for this excellent plugin, I’ve been looking for something exactly like this for the past 2 days, and I have tried a few different dashboard widget managers without much success or they have been limited.

   I’ll update my site to include a couple of link backs and include you in the site credits, thanks so much
3. Dave Kinkead says:

   March 5, 2010 at 08:25

   @lochgelly – Glad to hear you liked it. Make sure you rate it on wordpress.org

   Cheers
4. lochgelly says:

   March 8, 2010 at 07:10

   @Dave – I’ve rated it on WordPress.org, 5 starts from me
5. alauck says:

   March 9, 2010 at 04:44

   Thanks Dave, after trying a couple of dashboard plugins yours is the first one that actually works. It is fairly simple to use except for one thing. I am new to WordPress and the various categories is the drop down list are confusing. I don’t really know what they all mean. I set those items I want everyone to see at level_0. But I would like the admin dashboard to see all the dashboard widgets. An explanation of the categories would be very helpful to fine tune the dashboard.

   Thanks for a very useful plugin.
6. Dave Kinkead says:

   March 9, 2010 at 05:59

   @alauck thanks for the feedback. There is a comprehensive explanation of user roles and capabilities in the wordpress codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

   The default setting of nobody will ensure that no one sees that widget, read will be visible to everyone while using activate_plugins would limit visibility to admin only.

   Cheers,
7. Upekshapriya says:

   March 30, 2010 at 23:07

   Brilliant plugin – just what I need for my cms sites, however one slight problem it hides a dashboard widget loaded by another plugin ‘Cleverness To-Do List’ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cleverness-to-do-list/ and it doesn’t give any options in the Dashboard Heaven menu for that widget. Is there some sort of conflict?
8. Dave Kinkead says:

   March 30, 2010 at 23:14

   Thanks for the feedback.

   I haven’t tested it out with 3rd party widgets yet but that is something on my to do list. I know the source of the conflict, just have to think of an elegant solution now!

   Should be fixed in the next release.

   Cheers
9. Apartment Rentals Blog says:

   April 17, 2010 at 02:49

   Nice one, dude. Works as expected.
10. YvesL says:

    June 10, 2010 at 21:11

    Great plugin! All other dashboard editors do no allow that kind of fine grained selection. The way you can link it to a capability instead of a role (or only level) is rather ingenious but make the menu rather long in the end. However it work beautifully even in the latest version 3.0-RC2-15182
11. Dave Kinkead says:

    June 10, 2010 at 21:14

    Thanks for the lovely feedback @YvesL
12. marikamitsos says:

    June 21, 2010 at 20:19

    Hi there.
    Everyone says what a wonderful plugin you have. I have not tried it yet.
    My issue with deciding which widgets to show came up when decided to have a multisite with wordpress 3. This is what I am looking for:
    I want to be able to show fewer options (widgets on dashboard)to administrators than I get to see as super-admin.
    Can I do this with your plugin?
    Thank you in advance. marikamitsos
13. Dave Kinkead says:

    June 21, 2010 at 20:58

    @marikamitsos

    I haven’t upgraded to WP3.0 yet so I can’t say if it works after 2.9.x.

    With regard to what you want to do, you can set each widget to be visible to a particular user ability. So for example if you as super-admin can ‘edit-plugins’ but the admins can’t, just set visibility to that level.

    I’ll be checking 3.0 compatibility soon.

    Cheers, Dave
14. Luigi Barbati says:

    July 7, 2010 at 21:00

    hi,

    the plugin works well with wp 3.0 but not for “recent drafts” metabox.

    i don’t know if is a general problem or only for me.

    thanks.
15. Chadwick Slife says:

    July 25, 2010 at 19:10

    Which is simply epic. Thanks for the very useful post.
16. Dave Kinkead says:

    July 26, 2010 at 09:12

    Thanks @chadwick.

    I’ve also fixed the recent drafts error and everything is sweet for WordPress 3.0.