Thanks for a good article.

Do you know of a built in function to add a widget to the side dashboard? The wp_add_dashboard_widget function seems to only allow adding it to the 'normal' area.

I can add the fields directly to the $wp_meta_boxes array, but a built in function would be much more robust.

<?php
if (!function_exists('text_widget')) {

function text_widget() {

echo 'Text widget by ARCHIparmentier | wordpressdesigner';

}

function archi_setup() {
wp_add_dashboard_widget( 'text_widget' , 'text widget' , 'text_widget');
}

add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'archi_setup');
}

?>

Do you know if i can choose the place of my widget with this function wp_add_dashboard_widget ?
Is it possible to specify that the widget must be in fisrt position to the top of the first column for example ?

Anyone knows to make the widget to add on every blog dashboard of a WPMU installation?

add_action('do_meta_boxes', array(&$this, 'do_meta_boxes'),10,3);

function do_meta_boxes($type, $context, $post)
{
remove_meta_box('dashboard_quick_press', $type, $context);
}

I was searching for 'wordpress dashboard widget', and found your post. This saved me a lot.

You could search the WP plugins and widgets databases for others. Why reinvent the wheel?

If you want to create a sidebar widget with a donate button, you could use the example widget code at WP and insert your Paypal button code.

// --------------------------------------------------------------------
// Dashboard widget
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
//Pre-check user status and role and show only to allowed roles
function hide_show_assignboard(){
if(is_user_logged_in) { // only if there is a user logged in
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/pluggable.php');
$logged_user = wp_get_current_user();
$user_roles = $logged_user->roles; // an array of roles
foreach($user_roles as $user_role)
{
if($user_role=='administrator' || $user_role=='intern' ||$user_role=='editor')
include('dashboard.php');}
}
}
hide_show_assignboard();

I discovered late last night that I had to use this line to prevent an error that had me pulling out my hair:
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/pluggable.php');

Would your code be placed in the widget? I could send you an archive of the modified plugin.

Thanks.

Thanks!!

Adam

Well, in this article, I assume you have read the WP Engineer's excellent post Add WordPress Dashboard Widgets, because his code will be our start point.
So, we have this code:
 
 
// Load up the localization file if we're using WordPress i...

` function twitterWidget()
{
$settings = get_option("widget_twitterwidget");

$title = $settings['title'];
$twiturl = $settings['twiturl'];

?>

<img src="" height="16" width="16" alt=""/> <a href="">

<?php
}

// Twitter Widget
function twitterWidgetAdmin() {

$settings = get_option("widget_twitterwidget");

// check if anything's been sent
if (isset($_POST['update_twitter'])) {
$settings['title'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['twitter_title']));
$settings['twiturl'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['twitter_twiturl']));
update_option("widget_twitterwidget",$settings);
}

echo '
Title:
';
echo '
Twitter URL:
';
echo '';

}

register_sidebar_widget('Twitter', 'twitterWidget');
register_widget_control('Twitter', 'twitterWidgetAdmin', 400, 200);`

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

http://rick.jinlabs.com/2009/02/01/how-add-options-to-your-wordpress-27-dashboard-widgets/

echo '';
}

then get a bit lost when it gets to here:

wp_dashboard_trigger_widget_control( $meta_box['id'] );


Any help? I just want to give a couple of options to set. I'd rather not create a page under settings for this when the option to set it right there is available.

Thanks in Advance...
Adam