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.

turtlepod

<a href="http://genbumedia.com/plugins/fx-profile-dashboard-widget/" rel="nofollow ugc">f(x) Profile Dashboard Widget</a> add a Dashboard Widget to edit user profile.
Sometimes admin user profile has too many option, such as visual editor, admin bar, admin color scheme, etc. And it’s too confusing to user. With this plugin user can edit profile page easily directly in dashboard admin screen.
Features:
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<li>Super simple and easy to use.</li>
<li>Can change “Name”, “Email”, and “Password”.</li>
<li>Change password with strength meter.</li>
<li>The GPL v2.0 or later license. 🙂 Use it to make something cool.</li>
<li>Support available at <a href="https://genbumedia.com/contact/?about=f(x)+Profile+Dashboard+Widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Genbu Media</a>. 
Notes for developer: </li>
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<h4>Github</h4>
Development of this plugin is hosted at <a href="https://github.com/turtlepod/fx-profile-dashboard-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>. Pull request and bug reports are welcome.

Dashboard: Recent Posts Extended vs f(x) Profile Dashboard Widget