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Storing custom dashboard widget options in wordpress

I am using the Codex example to build a custom widget. The specific example seems to be working fine until you click configure and change options values. After you click submit, changes are not saved. ...
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Delete Custom Dashboard Widgets

Here is the code on how to delete all dashboard widgets - the default, and plugin widgets but I want to change the code to only delete custom dashboard widgets not the default ones. // Create the ...
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I need to create a dashboard widget with input field and will display the text as shortcodes in posts

Hi I need to make automated price updater of my learning materials (e-books, videos, posters etc.) and it's such a drag every time I need to change prices on them to open every single posts because ...
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Remove “Content” and “Discussion” from Right Now Dashboard Widget

How do I hide "Content" and "Discussion" element in the "Right Now" dashboard widget? Here's a screenshot:
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Get all posts by post_author

I am creating a back-end dashboard where I need to show all the post assigned to current user by the wp admin. I assign user role to Author and while creating post (as a wp admin) just assign ...
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RSS dashboard widget not showing visuals

I am using a RSS feeds widget on my dashboard as shown in this Q&A. Problem is feeds doesn't show up any visual like images or videos. I verified this by looking raw feeds which I used. Here is a ...
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Different rss feeds in a single dashboard widget

I am using this snip of code to get rss feed on my dashboard as widget. It becomes problematic when it displays 5-6 different rss feeds which makes me run down deep. How can I add 6 different feeds ...
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Reorder dashboard widgets

I recently tried to reorder the dashboard widgets by writing a plugin. I accomplished this: with the following code: <?php /* * Plugin Name: Custom Dashboard * Description: Custom dashboard ...
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193 views

remove post and categories/tags count from right now dashboard widget

I know it is easily possible to add a post-type count for a custom post type to the right now dashboard widget. However I wonder if it is also possible to remove stuff from this widget. E.g. I ...
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How to create a dashboard widget for one user

I will start by warning you that my programming skill is limited. I need to create a dashboard widget that will display in the WP dashboard for the users with the user_id=21. So far I have tried the ...
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How to use control_callback when creating a widget via functions.php or plugin?

I've created a dashboard widget in my functions.php file. I want to have it be able to update some stuff in the database upon form submittal. According to the codex documentation, I should be ...
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How to Remove ALL Widgets from Dashboard?

I'm looking for a complete blank Dashboard. No widgets at all and preferably one column. There are snippets to remove the default WordPress widgets, but haven't found nothing about the ones added ...
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Dashboard widget custom positioning?

I cannot figure out how to arrange my custom widgets one left and one right. I'm using this code to create custom widgets: //Add my comments. Shows user his last 5 comments function ...
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Grabbing how many posts by month for a dashboard widget

I am trying to develop a dashboard widget that counts posts or post types by month. I am really not sure how to go about doing this. I know how to create a dashboard widget and all that with post ...
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197 views

Custom User Field in Dashboard Widget

I checked justin tadlocks custom profile field tutorial and wanted to add the field in the custom dashboard widget but it seems it's not working. I want to show all the user information in this ...
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add widgets to dashboard for easy access for clients?

I have a widget created: if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Featured Video', 'before_widget' => '', 'after_widget' => '', ...
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Custom dashboard widget search box

I'd like to create a custom dashboard widget that contains the search box from the posts edit screen. I know how to create the dashboard widget and how to display it, but I don't know how can I place ...
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Add a banner to the Dashboard

Is there a way to add a banner to the WP dashboard? I don't mean in a custom widget or anything, just a simple image banner.
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wp_count_posts, wp_count_terms and wp_count_comments for specific user?

Is there a way for the functions wp_count_posts, wp_count_terms and wp_count_comments to return their results only for a specific user, possibly by using a user's ID? I'm making a custom "Right Now" ...
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empty dashboard for custom role

I setup a custom post type employee with an agent role that mimics an author role for this particular post type, and so far everything is working fine, except that when I created a test user and ...
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How to Make a Custom Dashboard Widget to Display Custom Notification from Admin?

I am looking for a way to achieve the following: A group of users 'students' They login to the site Each student can see a 'Custom Dashboard Widget(s)' Each widget will carry a personal message ...
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Replace dashboard widgets with banner ad

I know it's probably not encouraged, but is there a way to replace the standard dashboard widgets (Recent Drafts, Quickpress, etc.) with a standard image banner ad? I know how to add new dashboard ...
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Remove Widgets in Dashboard

Another noob question...when authors log on and access their Dashboard, they see all sorts of widgets such as an Internet Explorer warning, news on what's going on with WordPress. Is there anyway to ...
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609 views

Adding dashboard widgets to show - custom post type stats, information from other plugins

I have a website and i need to be able to edit the dashboard widgets so it shows relevant information to the website. At the moment all that is showing is the right now widget. Inside this widget, i ...
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Widgets not expanding on wordpress 3.3 widget dashbord

I updated to WordPress 3.3 (manual update) and cleaned browser cache. Widgets dashbord stop working when tring to expand dynamic sidebars for custom theme when it works for previous wordpress 3.2 ...
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Taxonomies not showing in WP Dashboard Right Now widget

For some time I've been using this code snippet adding both custom post types and custom taxonomies to the WP Dashboard Right Now widget: function dashboard_right_now_content_table_end() { $args ...
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Add new section to “Right Now” widget

I've been hacking away at modifying the "Right Now" widget in the WordPress dashboard, and although there are some hooks/filters which apply to just that, they are sparsely documented or explained. ...
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Disable dashboard drag&drop

I need to disable drag&drop functionality for dashboard widgets. This should be realized with jquery, just as it is for the dashboard_browser_nag. I'm no jquery expert - so can anybody tell me ...
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Embed iframe or html page into dashboard widget

I was wondering if it would be possible to embed an html page or add an iframe into a dashboard widget. I have a multi author blog and i want to make my admin section a simple as possible for some of ...
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328 views

Change number of widget columns in dashboard?

I removed some widgets from the dashboard in the wrong way (using unset() on $wp_meta_boxes) and as a side effect my dashboard widget area is now split into 4 columns, but with just the first 2 having ...
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Add custom post types stats to a custom dashboard widget

I have a lot of custom post types and I have them showing in my "Right Now" Dashboard but it's gotten pretty long so I want to separate them to a custom widget within the dash. See example below: ...
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How do I use the control callback when creating a simple dashboard plugin

On this page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_add_dashboard_widget The function wp_add_dashboard_widget is described. It states: wp_add_dashboard_widget($widget_id, $widget_name, ...
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How to remove Broken Link Checker widget from admin menu

I'm trying to clean up the Admin Dashboard widgets so that only the administrator level users can see the various meta boxes, but no matter what i've tried the Broken Link Checker widget will not go ...
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How to position custom dashboard widgets on side column

My Question: Is it possible to add custom dashboard widgets in the right hand column instead of only on the left hands side? I use wp_add_dashboard_plugin( $widget_id, $widget_name, $callback, ...