Dashboard Widget Sidebar

Enable regulare widgets to be used as Dashboard Widgets in admin.

This plugin adds a new widget area to the Appearance -> Widgets section in WordPress admin, from where you can add regulare widgets to the WordPress admin dashboard.

Donations

1. Upload the /dashboard-widget-sidebar folder to /plugins
2. Activate plugin
3. Add widgets to the new widget area in the Appearance -> Widgets section

No FAQ yet! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me using the support tab.

1. 

   The new widget area in the Appearance -> Widgets section

2. 

   Shows that it is a regulare widget that is being added

3. 

   Admin Dashboard - the widget has been added as a dashboard widget

4. 

   Widget settings, which controls the placement of the widget on the dashboard

1.2.3

[Fixed] Bug “Undefined index” (Thanks to Musiphilos for reporting it)

1.2.2

[Fixed] Bug “Causes CF7 Generate Tags to Fail” (Thanks to theatereleven for reporting it)

1.2.1

[Fixed] Bug “Invalid argument supplied for foreach()” (Thanks to Paul Shryock for reporting it)

1.2.0

[Added] Contact Form 7 integration. Can be inserted using the shortcode in a text widget.

1.1.2

[Fixed] Settings was not saved with WordPress version 3.8

1.1.1

[Added] Support for WordPress 3.8

[Changed] Naming of ID attributes for HTML of the Dashboard Widgets

[Fixed] When changes are made, they are automatically saved. However, if you clicked on the “Save” button afterwards, the options would show the previous settings.

1.1.0

[Added] “Context” and “Priority” settings added to the widgets, which gives you more control over how the widgets are shown on the dashboard.

[Fixed] If you placed more of the same widget type, then the titles would be the same (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-titles-2). Thanks to Nick (nikmav) for the fix of this bug.

1.0.2

[Updated] Uploaded screenshots

1.0.1

[Updated] Did some changes in the readme.txt file

1.0.0

[Added] First version.