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While working on a recent project in which we used Wordpress as a content management system, I realized that the client really had no use for most of the widgets on the administration dashboard. While this particular site had no blog, in my experience even sites with a blog component clients are more likely to be working with the pages than constantly making blog posts.
In this situation where the primary focus are the pages the dashboard provides little value and the first action is always going to be clicking on the "Pages > Edit" navigational item. While not hard to learn or really time consuming, it is far from optimal. What would make much more sense is to have the dashboard focused on the tasks in which a client would perform 80% of the time.
So 3.7 DESIGNS whipped up a quick plugin that adds a dashboard widget listing all of the pages allowing for easy editing, deleting and management of content pages.
It is compatible with wordpress 2.7+ and simply needs to be activated, no configuration required.
You can download version 1.1 here
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Nice plugin! Thanks,
One suggestion, Dashboard Pages out of the box comes with table of 600px height, which is not a problem for me… but when you don’t have enough pages yet you end up with high empty table. here’s what i did:
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pages-dashboard.css – replace all content with:
/*
Dashboard Pages Styling
*/
.page-scroller div.ps-wrapper { max-height: 600px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto; margin-top:-3px; }
.page-scroller div.ps-wrapper td { padding:3px; }
.page-scroller div.ps-footer { margin-top:-3px; }
.page-scroller td.column-date { padding-right: 20px; }
Now only when number of pages won’t fit in 600px height you’ll get the scroller
Thank you for the plugin
Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Keep up the good work! 
the screenshot could get a link to the original file
When I try to activate plugin it says no valid header.
Should be fixed now (new readme.txt). It seems that wordpress has a standard format that they expect your readme.txt to follow in terms of version, support, etc… I didn’t find that out until I submit the plugin to the directory on wordpress.org.
tried ot activate the plugin got this message: `The plugin does not have a valid header.`
running 2.8.4 – tried again worked !?
Hi Bruce, there are a few ways you can go about fixing that.
If you download the plugin again I made a change to the readme.txt which should fix it. Alternatively you can upgrade to the latest version of wordpress 2.8.
If neither of these are working for you, if you activate the plugin and wait 10 – 15 minutes the plugin will work fine and the error message will go away.
Hope this helps!
-Ross
Our WordPress software told me that “The plug-in does not have a valid header” when I tried to activate it after uploading it. Any ideas as to what the issue is? I look forward to using this plug-in when it’s working.
Thanks!
on January 25, 2010
Thank you for the plugin