Dave Kinkead

  1. Dashboard Heaven

    Take control of your WordPress Dashboard!

    Version 0.1 of Dashboard Heaven has been released.  Download a beta version of dashboard-heaven today.

    Dashboard Heaven allows you to control which user-level sees which widget in the admin dashboard.

    • Perfect for multi-user CMS.
    • No more unwanted WP Dev Feeds or inbound links!
    • Individual dashboard widget control.

    Installation

    1. Upload `dashboard-heaven` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
    2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
    3. In the Admin panel, go to Tools => Dashboard Heaven

    Requirements

    • Designed for WordPress Version 2.9.2
    • Tested up to Version 2.9.2

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    16 Responses to “Dashboard Heaven”

    1. uberVU - social comments says: 27 February at 02:06

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    2. lochgelly says: 4 March 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: 5 March at 08:25

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

      Cheers

    4. lochgelly says: 8 March at 07:10

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

    5. alauck says: 9 March 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: 9 March 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: 30 March 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: 30 March 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: 17 April at 02:49

      Nice one, dude. Works as expected.

    10. YvesL says: 10 June 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: 10 June at 21:14

      Thanks for the lovely feedback @YvesL

    12. marikamitsos says: 21 June 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: 21 June 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: 7 July 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: 25 July at 19:10

      Which is simply epic. Thanks for the very useful post.

    16. Dave Kinkead says: 26 July at 09:12

      Thanks @chadwick.

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

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