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.

Rami Yushuvaev

GenerateWP

This simple, but useful, plugin adds a widget to your WordPress dashboard, displaying a list of site information. Showing the site name, tagline, site URL, admin URL, admin language, text direction, WordPress version and PHP version.
It’s very handy if you want to see your site general information in one place – your sites dashboard.
<h4>More info</h4>
To read how this plugin was developed, including code examples and screenshots, visit: https://GenerateWP.com/introducing-dashboard-widgets-generator/
You can find the plugin source code in here:
<ul>
<li>https://GenerateWP.com/snippet/nvl3vxg/</li>
<li>https://GenerateWP.com/snippet/2VvAap6/</li>
</ul>
And you can ask for more features using the original post comments area.

Site Info

WordPress dashboard widget displaying the main site info.

Dashboard: Recent Posts Extended vs Site Info