Blase Beczkowski

It is a plugin that adds two sidebar to the dashboard of the admin panel and specjal DW Text Widget. You can place any widget in your dashboard. The whole styling is done in such a way as to keep the appearance of the administration panel in harmony. 
You can use it to leave messages or other information to all users or only for specific roles or specific user.
Thanks for downloading my plugin. I hope it will serve you well and meet your expectations.
I wish you successful cooperation.

Dashboard Widget

Very simple plugin to add sidebar with custom widget to your dashboard. You can add a sidebar which is only available to authors.

Arunas Liuiza

At the begining, Ghost was supposed to be a fork of WordPress. Then there was a talk of a plugin, that would give a next-generation admin panel for WordPress. But in the process it became a new blogging platform, built on Node.js. This plugin is an attempt to bring the nice and clean admin panel of Ghost back to the WordPress ecosystem.
Current features:
<ul>
<li>NEW PHP 5.2 Compatability</li>
<li>NEW Autosave support</li>
<li>NEW Featured image (post-thumbnail) support</li>
<li>NEW Custom fields (post-meta) support</li>
<li>NEW Experimental custom post types support (have to be enabled via Options page)</li>
<li>NEW Add new category dialog</li>
<li>NEW Tighter integration with WordPress (Admin Bar links, Edit links, etc.)</li>
<li>Posts/Pages Markdown editor</li>
<li>Media upload integration</li>
<li>Post tags support</li>
<li>Post category support</li>
<li>Post scheduling support</li>
</ul>

Gust

The best markdown editing experience in WordPress to date. As already mentioned having media support would put the icing on the cake. Echoing everyone else I do hope you continue developing the plugin.



Great implimentation, love the plugin

Gust is a port of Ghost admin panel for WordPress.

Dashboard Widget vs Gust