vanjwilson

This plugin add a News custom post type to your WordPress site. Now you can keep your press releases or time-sensitive announcements in a separate list, without having to juggle categories or tags.
The plugin adds a News tab to your admin menu, which allows you to enter news items just as you would regular posts. The archive list of your news items will appear at <code>/news</code>, and individual news items will appear at <code>/news/<permalink></code>.
Default single item and archive page templates for news items are also provided. These templates have abundant IDs and classes, so that you can style them with your own CSS. 
You may also customize them by putting copies in your theme folder, and changing the markup. When you update the plugin, you will get new features and bug fixes, while keeping any customizations you made in your copies of these templates.
A list of news items may be included in other post content with the list-news-items] shortcode. (See the FAQ for more information on using the shortcode.)
Finally, the plugin adds a Recent News Items widget, which can be placed on any sidebar available in your theme, to show a list of news items in reverse chronological order. You can set the title of this list and the number of news items to show.

News CPT

A quick, easy way to add an extensible News custom post type to Wordpress.

uamv

Glance That allows users to customize the content viewable in At a Glance on the WordPress Dashboard. Add/remove items from At a Glance, view status of items, assign custom dashicons, sort the order of glanced items, and quick link to both the Add New content screens and front end post archives. Display of items respects user capabilities. Administrators can apply a glance configuration site-wide to all users or only to new users. Currently, the following items are supported …
<ul>
<li>Custom post types</li>
<li>Revisions (admins only)</li>
<li>Media</li>
<li>Plugins</li>
<li>Themes</li>
<li>Users</li>
<li>Site Health Status</li>
<li>Data Export Requests</li>
<li>Data Removal Requests</li>
<li>Gravity Forms</li>
<li>Gravity View</li>
<li>Formidable Forms</li>
<li>Ninja Forms</li>
<li>Give Forms</li>
<li>Sliced Invoices & Estimates</li>
<li>ProjectHuddle Sites & Mockups</li>
</ul>
Additionally, Glance That allows you to toggle view of the number of items matching the following statuses:
<ul>
<li>Mine</li>
<li>Scheduled</li>
<li>Pending</li>
<li>Draft</li>
<li>Private</li>
<li>Archived (via <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/archived-post-status/" rel="ugc">Archived Post Status</a>)</li>
<li>Trash</li>
<li>Unattached (Media)</li>
<li>Confirmed, Failed, Complete (User Data Requests)</li>
<li>Spam (Comments)</li>
<li>Active, Inactive (Plugins & Gravity Forms)</li>
<li>Updates (Plugins & Themes)</li>
<li>Favorites, Recently Active, Must-Use, Drop-Ins (Plugins)</li>
<li>Paused Plugins & Themes (when in recovery mode)</li>
<li>Good Items, Recommended Improvements, Critical Issues (Site Health)</li>
</ul>
If you’ve defined custom post state icons via <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-state-tags/" rel="ugc">Post State Tags</a>, then Glance that will inherit these.
<h4>Filters</h4>
A slew of filters are available to fine tune integration with your site:
<pre><code>gt_glance_selection lets you limit available glances.

gt_labels customizes glance labels.

gt_option_icons customizes default icon for a specific glance when selected from the dropdown.

gt_dashicons limits the available icons in the icon picker

gt_view_at_a_glance allows users to view the At a Glance metabox. By default, WP limits to those with `edit_posts` capability.
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The following allow you to show/hide various portions of Glance That:
<pre><code>gt_show_mine
gt_show_zero_count
gt_show_add_new
gt_show_all_status
gt_show_zero_count_status
gt_show_mustuse
gt_show_dropins
gt_show_archive
gt_show_applause
gt_show_settings
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Glance That

Adds content control to At a Glance on the Dashboard

News CPT vs Glance That