Ricardo Gonzalez

WordPress 2.5 introduces a widgetized dashboard featuring the latest posts and WordPress news.
This plugin creates a new widget for that dashboard that lists out the latest posts.
See Also: <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dashboard-widget-manager/" rel="ugc">Dashboard Widget Manager</a>

Dashboard: Recent Posts Extended

Widget for the WordPress 2.7+ dashboard to display the latest posts.

Pete Nelson

A dashboard widget that displays a list of common WordPress directories and their sizes. Handy if you need to keep an eye on the size of your WordPress install. Custom directories can also be configured.
Find us on <a href="https://github.com/petenelson/dashboard-directory-size" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>

Dashboard Directory Size

Dashboard widget to display directory sizes

Dashboard: Recent Posts Extended vs Dashboard Directory Size