Looking good to me

Hope you don't mind Marco?

I got a blog with me as admin, one editor and a lot of journalists.

The editor and me should see all drafts and pendings on the dashboard to edit and publish them.

I "hacked" the code for this option into my wordpress. Here is the code I use right now:

function wp_dashboard_recent_drafts( $drafts = false ) {
	if ( !$drafts ) {
		$pendings_query = new WP_Query( array(
			'post_type' => 'post',
			'post_status' => 'pending',
			'posts_per_page' => 150,
			'orderby' => 'modified',
			'order' => 'DESC'
		) );
		$pendings =& $pendings_query->posts;

		$drafts_query = new WP_Query( array(
			'post_type' => 'post',
			'post_status' => 'draft',
			'posts_per_page' => 150,
			'orderby' => 'modified',
			'order' => 'DESC'
		) );
		$drafts =& $drafts_query->posts;
	}

	if ( $drafts && is_array( $drafts ) || $pendings && is_array( $pendings )) {
		$list = array();
		foreach ( $pendings as $pending ) {
			$url = get_edit_post_link( $pending->ID );
			$title = _draft_or_post_title( $pending->ID );
			$last_id = get_post_meta( $pending->ID, '_edit_last', true);
			$last_user = get_userdata($last_id);
			$last_modified = '<i>' . esc_html( $last_user->display_name ) . '</i>';
			$item = '<h4><a href="' . $url . '" title="' . sprintf( __( 'Edit “%s”' ), esc_attr( $title ) ) . '">' . esc_html($title) . '</a>' . '<abbr> ' . __('Pending') . '</abbr>' . '<abbr style="display:block;margin-left:0;">' . sprintf(__('Last edited by %1$s on %2$s at %3$s'), $last_modified, mysql2date(get_option('date_format'), $pending->post_modified), mysql2date(get_option('time_format'), $pending->post_modified)) . '</abbr></h4>';
			if ( $the_content = preg_split( '#\s#', strip_tags( $pending->post_content ), 11, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY ) )
				$item .= '<p>' . join( ' ', array_slice( $the_content, 0, 10 ) ) . ( 10 < count( $the_content ) ? '&hellip;' : '' ) . '</p>';
			$list[] = $item;
		}
		foreach ( $drafts as $draft ) {
			$url = get_edit_post_link( $draft->ID );
			$title = _draft_or_post_title( $draft->ID );
			$last_id = get_post_meta( $draft->ID, '_edit_last', true);
			$last_user = get_userdata($last_id);
			$last_modified = '<i>' . esc_html( $last_user->display_name ) . '</i>';
			$item = '<h4><a href="' . $url . '" title="' . sprintf( __( 'Edit “%s”' ), esc_attr( $title ) ) . '">' . esc_html($title) . '</a>' . '<abbr> ' .  __('Draft') . '</abbr>' . '<abbr style="display:block;margin-left:0;">' . sprintf(__('Last edited by %1$s on %2$s at %3$s'), $last_modified, mysql2date(get_option('date_format'), $draft->post_modified), mysql2date(get_option('time_format'), $draft->post_modified)) . '</abbr></h4>';
			if ( $the_content = preg_split( '#\s#', strip_tags( $draft->post_content ), 11, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY ) )
				$item .= '<p>' . join( ' ', array_slice( $the_content, 0, 10 ) ) . ( 10 < count( $the_content ) ? '&hellip;' : '' ) . '</p>';
			$list[] = $item;
		}
?>
	<ul>
		<li><?php echo join( "</li>\n<li>", $list ); ?></li>
	</ul>
<?php
	} else {
		_e('There are no drafts at the moment');
	}