uniquelylost

This plugin will add a widget to your WordPress admin dashboard with selected icons, links, and hover effects. You can add icons and links for quick actions such as adding a new post, page, etc. Or you can add icons and links for external things such as your twitter, facebook, etc.
<h4>Features</h4>
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<li>Select icons, links, link text.</li>
<li>170+ Dashicons included.</li>
<li>Select icon color, background color, size, and hover effect.</li>
<li>25+ css3 hover effects included.</li>
<li>Select link text color, and size.</li>
<li>Dashboard widget placement options for priority, and side shown.</li>
<li>Dashboard widget viewing permission option, all user roles available.</li>
</ul>

Dashboard Quick Actions

Admin dashboard quick action icons and links for WordPress

cmorillas1

It provides an alternative way of getting data from an external database: 
* Google Sheets 
* SQLite 
* MySQL 
* Progresql
A SQL query can be configured to get data from these databases and be used as method for authentication or for populate post or pages.
The plugin is modular, so, new actions for the data gathered can be added to the plugin with minimal programming. You can contact me at cmorillas1@gmail.com

External Database Based Actions

Get data from external database (including google sheets) and do configurable actions based on these data.

Dashboard Quick Actions vs External Database Based Actions