An Introduction and a Plugin Review: Admin Links Widget

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1. George Serradinho (107 comments.) says:

   4/7/2009 at 5:52 am

   Very nice plugin, makes things a lot easier for us admins.
2. Ben Licher (2 comments.) says:

   4/7/2009 at 6:21 am

   Thanks, I’m going to download this one very fast. Saves a lot of clicking!
3. Brian Meagher (2 comments.) says:

   4/7/2009 at 7:54 am

   Welcome Rich.

   I use a hack in my Menu to only display the Admin link to me. But I’d rather switch to using this plugin. But…

   Is this plugin working in 2.7? WordPress.org/extend says it’s only compatible up to 2.5.1, author’s not updated it in a year, and the only 2 comments about it are that it borked their other plugins.

   Maybe Keith Murray could pop in here and tell us more.
   • Ben Licher (2 comments.) says:

     4/7/2009 at 8:27 am

     @Brian, it works perfect for me. I use WP 2.7 and One-Theme. I can’t check if guests see it or not. Would anyone be so kind? Go right to the bottom, everything in Dutch :-).
4. Richard Hay (9 comments.) says:

   4/7/2009 at 11:30 am

   Brain,

   Thanks for the welcome.

   I can also confirm what Ben said above – I use it with 2.7 and it works like a champ.

   I will send Keith Murray a note and see if he might update the listing to show it works with the latest version of WordPress.
5. Blake Ipsen (1 comments.) says:

   4/7/2009 at 2:40 pm

   Thanks for this download- save so much time/effort!
6. Keith (4 comments.) says:

   4/7/2009 at 7:22 pm

   Thanks for the review, Rich. Much appreciated!

   @Brian: The plugin does in fact work correctly with WP 2.7, I’ve been running it on my site all the way through the 2.7 release cycle without issues.

   The lack of updates is mainly due to time, but I do keep a close eye on this one because I rely on it too.

   I’ve posted an updated version of the plugin (1.3.1) with no real functionality changes, though the compatibility notes should be fixed though so WP shouldn’t complain anymore if you try to install it.

   The WP plugin cache is a bit slow to update, but it should be there in the next day or so.

   Thanks all for the positive comments & feedback!
   • WordPress User (1 comments.) says:

     4/8/2009 at 8:06 am

     Great article/tutorial. Thanks for this greatly needed information. Now, a more pressing issue for me is SPAM! BOTS! Argh! How do I keep these menaces to the web society off my blog?

     I used Sabre and yes, it works, but I then ran into a lot of issues with people not being able to register using the capcha. I could not even register using it, as several of the capchas do not reflect the actual input letters and numbers they show.

     I have also used various other plugins and I either run into issues because I am not a phpadmin pro or it’s not actually blocking bots. Others block bots and not spammers.

     Any suggestions? I average 200+ spam posts per day.

     Thank you!
7. Sriraj (27 comments.) says:

   4/7/2009 at 10:50 pm

   Good changes, especially for the entries RSS and comments RSS in the default widget as they are almost present in every wordpress theme now.
8. Shepherd Jim (1 comments.) says:

   4/8/2009 at 4:33 am

   Wow! The “Admin Links Widget” plugin is going to save me so much time AND screen space. I’ve always had to to keep a site loaded in two browser tabs. Now, the Dashboard will just a click away from my site.

   Many thanks to author Keith Murray and to you for bringing the plugin to my attention.
9. Keith (4 comments.) says:

   4/8/2009 at 6:48 am

   The new version is showing up in the WP plugin directory as of this morning. Self-hosted WP installs should be picking it up in shortly.
10. WindowsObserver (55 comments.) says:

    4/8/2009 at 7:41 pm

    Just grabbed the update from my Admin panel after it was shown as being available – thanks Keith.
11. khaled (4 comments.) says:

    4/9/2009 at 6:12 am

    When you login to any of those links such as manage plugins and manage comment will it not take you to the same admin panel to do all of the tasks thus giving you 8 links to the same admin panel. Or am I missing something here?
12. WindowsObserver (55 comments.) says:

    4/9/2009 at 6:20 pm

    khaled – when I click any of those links on my blog it takes me directly to that part of the admin panel. Seems like you have something unexpected happening.

    I also have the latest version installed that Keith released yesterday.
13. Kim says:

    4/14/2009 at 3:54 am

    It’s indeed a very nice plugin. It keeps all admin-related links in one place, and makes it easily integratable in your theme.

    Another useful plugin i suggest using is http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....admin-bar/. This plugin provides a front side top admin bar, with customizable buttons, based on the wordpress.com admin bar.

    Hoping to be of use

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