One thing I’d like to see with the Version Check plugin would be to have it check to see if wp-dash is installed and if so, is the Version Check widget installed and running, and if so, then NOT display the normal line in the header….
Line 103 of the version check plugin is function output_text() {. On the next line, add this code:
if (function_exists('make_widget_available')) return;
That will disable the output in the header if WP-Dash is enabled. 🙂
viper, you are a gentleman (or woman, whichever!) and a scholar! Thanks, I will implement that immediately….
Glad to know which…. and it works PERFECTLY. Thanks again…. um…. what are you going to make next?
Me? Well, I just finished some pointless Flash clocks and I’ll be releasing another that displays specified times from around the world next. 🙂
Alright, I finally fixed the disapearing widget problem we were having, and uploaded the changes. If anybody has one disappear this time, please, let me know, cause then something might be terribly wrong.
Got it just now, will reinstall and let you know – thanks!
Hi masquerade –
Seems to be working fine, assuming you intended for any move or addition/deletion etc. to cause the whole dashboard page layout to refresh. If that’s NOT what was supposed to happen….
The widgets do NOT disappear, which is a GOOD thing!
Yes, the pages are supposed to refresh. Having widget creation on the fly would mean CSS parsing in Javascript and more server intensive AJAX calls. I figured the hassle isn’t worth it.
Okay – just wanting to make sure that what I was seeing was the intended result.
LOVE this plugin, m’friend!
I get an error when clicking on Dashboard:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘hex.wp_widgets’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM wp_widgets
(I can’t see any create table SQL statements in the scripts, so I don’t know what fields etc are required to create this manually.
I then get:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at httpdocs/blog/wp-includes/wp-db.php:98) in httpdocs/blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 10
line 11
line 12
line 13
which correspond to the header lines in admin.php
Can’t see this mentioned in this thread or at the author’s site…
Any ideas?
Go to your dashboard page and add ?install at the end, the autodetection for activation is still flakey, since 1.5 has no hooks for this. When WP 1.6 is out, a new version of this plugin will be released with proper documentation and much better hooking.
Are installation instructions posted anywhere for WP Dash?
I am encountering these errors:
update_z not callable
save_pos not callable
Thanks,
Greg
Gosh, I didn’t have any problem with it. Just stuffed it into my plugin folder and activated it…. Did you check with the author?
