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Michael Beckwith

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Brad Williams

John Hawkins

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Haris Zulfiqar

Russell Aaron

Christina Workman

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Jose Castaneda

<p>For years, <a href="https://maintainn.com/?utm_source=wporg-page&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=maintainn-tools" rel="nofollow ugc">Maintainn</a> has helped thousands of clients keep their websites updated and secured. During that time, we’ve built a number of tools to help us do just that. With the Maintainn Tools plugin, we’re making a number of those tools available to you!</p>
<p><strong>Site Info:</strong> See a top level view of your entire WordPress install. View registered post types and post statuses, permalink structure, multisite network active plugins, active and inactive plugins, must-use plugins (MU), site and server details, browser details, and session details. You can easily email the results to yourself or your support team.</p>
<p><strong>Site Scanner:</strong> Compare the WordPress Core files on your website hosting server to the current WordPress files available from the WordPress.org repository to ensure they have not been altered in any way.</p>
<p><strong>Manage Plugins:</strong>Turn on/off automatic updates for individual plugins. Easily lock specific plugins from being updated.</p>
<p><strong>Plugin Admin Notes:</strong> Add notes next to each plugin.</p>


Maintainn Tools

A plugin to Maintainn your WordPress website

Jo Landers

<p>Do you want to add site announcements, contributor guidelines or help to the WordPress dashboard?</p>
<p>This plugin adds a widget with custom text to the dashboard. Great for Admin-only announcements or making a short README text block for your site contributors. You can display basic help or include links to more detailed information. The <a href="http://www.jolanders.com/wordpress_plugins.php?plugin=custom-dashboard-help" title="premium version" rel="nofollow ugc">premium version</a> has more options and allows you to disable/hide any or all default dashboard widgets.</p>
<p><strong>Important!</strong> If you’re upgrading from Version 1.0, make sure you follow the correct installation procedure.</p>
<h4>Suggested Use</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display general site announcements</li>
<li>Add guidelines for content, category usage, or image sizes that fit the theme</li>
<li>Tell contributors when they should use pages, posts, or custom write panels</li>
<li>Provide links to more detailed “contributor help” pages or posts</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Includes the same WYSIWYG editor your posts do, so you can format your widget content more easily.</li>
<li>Lightweight – For most users, only the widget display and help functions (less than 100 lines of code) are loaded. Management functions are only loaded if the user can manage the plugin.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium Version</h4>
<ul>
<li>Selectively disable any or all default WordPress dashboard widgets, for all users (the widget list occasionally changes; the plugin can disable all default widgets for WP v. 3.1 to 3.8.2)</li>
<li>Keep the widget visible, open, and above other widgets on the dashboard, regardless of user settings.</li>
<li>Apply custom colors to the widget title bar to make it stand out.</li>
<li>Restrict access to this plugin’s settings to site administrators, even if other roles can manage plugins.</li>
</ul>


Custom Dashboard Help Widget

Add a custom widget to the dashboard to display announcements, help or other information users will see at login.

Maintainn Tools vs Custom Dashboard Help Widget