Title: Dashboard Widgets API
Author: Kevin Langley Jr.
Published: <strong>January 4, 2012</strong>
Last modified: December 10, 2012

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# Dashboard Widgets API

 By [Kevin Langley Jr.](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kevinlangleyjr/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/dashboard-widget-api.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-widget-api/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-widget-api/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-widget-api/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-widget-api/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dashboard-widget-api/)

## Description

Similar to the Sidebar Widget API implementation, you can now create a class
 with
methods for a settings form and widget display. A sample widget is included.

## Installation

 1. Upload `dashboard-widget-api.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Create your widget class and require it in your theme or via a plugin.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Dashboard Widgets API” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Kevin Langley Jr. ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kevinlangleyjr/)
 *   [ markparolisi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markparolisi/)
 *   [ voceplatforms ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/voceplatforms/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Documenation
 * Better type checking and returns
 * Style formatting

#### 0.3

Updating documentation

#### 0.1

Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 * Tag
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-widget-api/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Kevin Langley Jr. ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kevinlangleyjr/)
 *   [ markparolisi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markparolisi/)
 *   [ voceplatforms ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/voceplatforms/)

## Support

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