Comments on: How to Add Custom Dashboard Widgets in WordPress

By: smayzes

smayzes — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:09:44 +0000

Is it possible to do this using OOP?

e.g.:

inside a class:

wp_add_dashboard_widget(‘custom_help_widget’, ‘Help and Support’, array($this, ‘customDashboardHelp’));

function customDashboardHelp() {

echo ‘

Welcome to your custom CMS!’;

}

By: luxsub

luxsub — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 04:11:38 +0000

Is it possible to put a widget with adsense in your dashboard for a multi user site?

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:10:30 +0000

You can do this by using the conditional statement if user_can or even user roles.

By: y3kgeek

y3kgeek — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:10:39 +0000

Great idea. What if I want to create a custom dashboard widget that only people with a certain user role, say Contributing Writer, can see?

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:04:48 +0000

Yes you would have to add two separate functions and actions…

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:49:01 +0000

Thx for this! It works great.

Just a quick question:
If I want to add 2 or more custom widgets in the functions.php, do I have to change the “action” and “function” name?

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:17:40 +0000

Well you can, but in our case it contains support information that we want our clients to know. This is mostly for custom theme designs, so it is only good to have when our theme is activated.

By: ACS04

ACS04 — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:41:59 +0000

Sounds good, but should be better to create a simple plugin to do so, in such a way, this widget will be independant from the themes… Don’t you think ?

By: Frankie Jarrett

Frankie Jarrett — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:49:43 +0000

Thanks a lot for the easy example. I was able to get something up and running in just a few seconds

By: Stéphane

Stéphane — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:44:58 +0000

Wow! Never heard about that trick before… Very nice, thanks!