Announcing 4 new MyDashboard gadgets
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Gafeman over at viciao2k3 has recently released 4 new MyDashboard gadgets that I think are definitely worth looking at. All four of these gadgets will work in both English and Spanish, which has inspired me to move forward with the multi-language functionality of the MyDashboard core.
If anyone would be willing to help translate MyDashboard into another language, please get in touch (via a comment or on the forum) and I will get in touch with the required details.
Anyway, back to the gadgets. More details on each gadget can be found, in Spanish, on this page. For those who don’t speak Spanish I have included a screen shot of the gadget as it appears on our own blog and a basic description of the information it displays.
Activity Monitor
The Activity Monitor gadget shows more detailed statistics on the number of comments on your blog and days of the week that get the most comments. It also has a count of the number of comments you are away from 1000. As you can see I am quite a distance away yet.
Your Drafts
The Your Drafts gadget is similar to the standard Posts gadget, but displays a list of your draft posts rather than your published posts. Clicking on the title of a post will take you to the edit page for that draft post.
Technorati Graph
This gadget displays a Technorati graph of the reactions to your blog and the days on which they occurred. I think this gadget will work quite well alongside the standard incoming links gadget.
myDashboardReStart - Blog Stats
This final gadget is designed as a replacement for the standard MyDashboard Blog Statistics gadget. It splits up the number of comments on your blog to show which are genuine comments and which are trackbacks or pings.
Installation instructions
- To install these new gadgets, download the archive from the Gafemans web site and un-compress it into a directory on your computer.
- Upload all of the uncompressed files (and directories in the case of the Activity Monitor gadget) to your wp-content/plugins directory.
- Login to the administration site of your WordPress blog and navigate to the Plugins page. Activate each of the new plugins.
- Now go to your MyDashboard page (click on the Dashboard menu), and click on the Add Gadgets link in the top right hand corner. The new gadgets will be listed and you can click on the Add to Page link underneath each of the new gadgets that you wish to show on your dashboard.
Tags: wordpress, mydashboard, gadgets
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January 7th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Awesome, just what I was looking for! Thank you very much.
January 7th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
[...] drop and drag around to make the dash look just the way you want it. Now I came across this today, 4 must have gadgets for MyDashboard. I especially love the activity gadget and the draft gadget which shows your draft [...]
January 14th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Where you wanted?
Hehe