Comments on: Theme and Plugin Authors: Easily Add an RSS Widget to the Dashboard

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:03:28 +0000

I know that Joost has a method to completely remove his widgets now, so maybe this is still an issue for people.

My thinking though was that if you have paid for a ‘Premium’ theme, that you are probably interested in seeing updates from its authors and/or about that theme’s updates/developments.

Maybe the concept doesn’t work as well for plugins, but I also wanted to show how easy it was to do!

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:51:49 +0000

Nice tip, I’m just wondering if people would find a theme or plugin automatically adding their feed to dashboards too “intrusive.”

Even though you could remove it later, I remember the big deal was made how Yoast did this with their plugins.

Would it be considered acceptable now? What if every theme and plugin author added their feed to the dashboard?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:59:23 +0000

It’s always the way! It’s so simple, really pleasing to come across it!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:56:15 +0000

Oops, thanks for the catch! Glad you liked it, I was really surprised that considering how simple this is I couldn’t find it all in one place anywhere.

By: Ozh

Ozh — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:49:04 +0000

Small typo in the “all the code” block: show_summary’ instead of ‘show_summary’

Other than that, neat summary, shows how simple it is!

By: Alex Denning

Alex Denning — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:04:09 +0000

That is awesome. Wish I’d found something like this last week! Didn’t realise it was just a case of wp_widget_rss_output.