Dashboard Post-it: leave notes on the WordPress dashboard
by Mark Dingemanse
Dashboard Post-it is a simple plugin for WordPress 2.7 and higher that allows you to leave yourself or other authors a note on the dashboard. It is implemented as a configurable dashboard widget, so you can collapse it, move it around, and edit it as any other dashboard widget. It will accept plain text or (sanitized) HTML. Only users with the capability "Edit dashboard" can edit the note.
As of today, Dashboard Post-it is available for download at the WordPress plugin repository. Screenshots and installation instructions can be found over there.
I wrote the plugin for my own use. There are alternatives, but since some of them stopped working after the changes to the Dashboard in WP 2.7 and others are not widgetized, and since this is a much requested feature, I decided to submit the plugin to the repository.
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Thanks for the plugin. Looks and works great. Two caveats though:
First, it doesn’t seem to accept simple line breaks. It’d be great if it would do so and you wouldn’t have to use BR or P tags there.
Second, it would be great if there were an option to always keep the editable field on. Since I generally just want to quickly jot down notes, it’s a bit of a drag to hit the configure button first and the submit button afterwards.
Martin, I will look into the linebreak issue. Perhaps invoking
wpautopwould help; right now the widget is set up to expect HTML.As for always keeping an editable field on, that may be technically impossible. There has to be some type of submit button since it will always take a user action for the data to be submitted to the database.
Maybe you could just add a “always keep open” checkbox next to the submit that keeps the functionality and all but simply just always keeps the edit field open. Then you wouldn’t have to worry about HTML and linebreaks, since the textfield is visible all the time anyway.
Of course now users could be prone to making edits without submitting them but this would be a caveat of the “always keep open” option. Of course there could be a red text that notifies you if you’ve changed anything but that’s propably too much work?
what user has the dashboard editing ability? and how can we grand it to them?
thx 2046
With Role Manager you can edit roles and capabilities. I believe the
editorandadminroles have the capability by default. For the rest you can activate it with Role Manager.Hello, can you help me please give me a code for hide “edit” in the widget of dashborad. Thanks Anthony
Anthony, this is tied to the Capability “Edit dashboard”, which is enabled by default for the Roles
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Thank you for taking the time to create a super plugin, exactly what I was looking for.
Nice plugin.
One extra thing that might be nice is to allow the the title of the widget to be changed from the default “Post It”. Then if you were posting some guidelines for posting on WordPress you could call the box “Posting Guidelines” or whatever.
Anytime I put a link in the post-it, it redirects to my current domain instead of taking me to the address I want to go to. Any idea why?
Nevermind, it was editing error. I’m an idiot. lol
Okay, I just uploaded version 1.1 which fixes the line break issue (Martin’s suggestion) and makes the title editable (thanks Ben for the suggestion).
Warning: upgrading will cause your custom text to be lost. I see no easy solution for that; a workaround is to copy your text before upgrading and paste it into the new version. Sorry about that.
Arg. Just should put that warning up somewhere where it’s well visible. I just lost a bunch of important notes :(
Dang, Martin, really sorry about that. It happened to me too. I have committed a new readme with a warning in several places.