14 Responses for "WordPress Plugin: Dashboard Links"

1. Josh January 19th, 2009 at 1:46 pm 1

   Just a note – yes I realize that the word Public is spelled wrong in the second screen shot. =)

2. Erick March 5th, 2009 at 4:54 pm 2

   I love the plugin. I have searched far and wide…and posted everywhere to find a plugin that somehow interacts with the dashboard menus. I like the links.

   I know a lot of people who would like to see a way to customize those menus or even leave a simple text message for all users to read.

   Your plugin definitely has great posibilities. Nice coding job.

   Is there a way to modify your plugin to display a message as well as links?

3. Trisha March 25th, 2009 at 9:22 pm 3

   Thank you for this plugin. I have been looking all over for this. I have several blogs and wanted a quick and easy way to go from one blog to another and this works great.

4. Sergey April 29th, 2009 at 3:13 pm 4

   Hi!

   Install plugin, and can’t understand — as admin i see all dashboard links. But subskriber can’t see any thing. How i can make links for subskriber?

5. Josh April 29th, 2009 at 4:53 pm 5

   Sergey:
   By design this is the way the plug-in is supposed to work; only showing the dashboard links to administrators who are logged in.

6. Ben Shephard June 21st, 2009 at 3:21 pm 6

   Doesn’t work for me. I add a link and it shows on my links widget when not logged in as well as on the dash board when I am logged in

7. Josh June 22nd, 2009 at 11:06 am 7

   Ben: What version of WordPress are you using?

8. Rob van Wijk April 6th, 2010 at 9:19 pm 8

   Hello Josh,

   It seems this plugin behaves slightly different than intended on (at least) WP 2.9.1 and 2.9.2; the box / widget / window (I’m unsure about the vocabulary here) with links is shown to both admins and subscribers. A quick
   “if ( !current_user_can ( ‘level_10′ ) ) { return; }” at the beginning of jc_dbl_f_DashboardDisplay() will at least empty the box, but it would of course be nicer to have it completely hidden.
   Do you intend to ever upgrade / fix this? I’ve never done any WP plugin coding, so I’m unsure if I could get it fixed myself.

   Very nice plugin, thank you!
   Rob

9. Josh May 4th, 2010 at 7:12 pm 9

   Rob: Yes and thank you for pointing it out. I’ll release an update within a few days!

10. Rene August 31st, 2010 at 3:31 pm 10

    Hey works great in 3.0.1!

    My only request would be an option to display (or not) the link description under the link itself

    Thanks for your work!

11. Melvin Bell May 1st, 2011 at 3:05 am 11

    Hello Josh
    I notice on your dashboard the following
    “Joshcook.net visit site

    I would like to put the visit site on my users dashboard including the (subscribers dashboard) so that they will know how to get back to the home page. Clicking on my RV Bloggers Online in the admin or user dashboard will do it, But most do not realize that it is a link. the visual visit site could be called return to home or just home. How can I do this. I have looked and looked. I have your dashboard links but that will not do what I want. any help or advise would be appreciated.
    Mel

12. Josh May 5th, 2011 at 2:43 pm 12

    Hey Melvin,

    Well, as you know the “visit site” link is coded into WordPress although if your users don’t know it’s a link they won’t use it. What you could do is create an internal link pointing to your blog’s main URL and display it using the Dashboard Links plugin. Thoughts?

13. Jane T June 14th, 2011 at 1:00 pm 13

    Very handy little plugin, but I have a small problem.
    I have V0.79 installed, but it’s showing the Dashboard links to subscriber level users, is there a way I have missed to only show the links for Administration users.

    WP Level 3.1.2

14. Pacotole October 10th, 2011 at 7:08 am 14

    Hello.

    My request would be an option to change the name “Dashboard Links” for other text.

    Thanks, great plugin!