August 28th, 2007

A MyDashboard Plugin review

The author of this remarkable plugin, Barry for Clearskys intends giving new features and a bit of colour to the old WordPress dashboard. The new plugin called The MyDashboard plugin is designed to replace the limited WordPress dashboard with something a bit more useful, extend-able and skinnable.

Features include:  

  • Drag and drop to reorder the gadgets location to your liking.
  • Add or remove gadgets at will.
  • Fully extend-able – easily add your own gadgets to the dashboard using the very simple API.
  • Skinnable – The look of the dashboard can be changed simply by selecting a different skin (CSS style sheet).
  • Standard gadgets – provides a number of standard gadgets.

    • The Installation of this plugin is like that of many other WordPress plugins: unzip, upload and activate. Just make sure you get the right version of MyDashboard for your WordPress.

    Conclusion: Kabatalogy has tested this plugin for you, and didn’t find any flaws. The plugin effectively gives a new-look to the WordPress dashboard and does just what its made for.

    You could download this plugin from the WordPress Extend page or from the Google code page

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    4 Comments;

    1. Szavanna

      Sounds interesting – now that I am so busy with WordPress – will check it out!

      August 28th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
    2. Tino

      Hi there, nice blog. an extend-able dashboard, interesting.

      August 28th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
    3. tamara

      Just new to word press, i’ve still try out many other plug ins. Is this one really necessary, thanks

      August 28th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
    4. Kanute

      It depends by what you mean necessary. I’ll say its better than the default dashboard. Moreover it does not replace the former dashboard, you can switch from one to the other.

      August 28th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
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