I’ve just launched the first version of a new Wordpress widget, the Admin Links Widget.
This very simple widget does as the name suggests. It provides links to administrative functions from the sidebar of your Wordpress installation. The catch is, only administrators will be able to see the links so the general public won’t have their view cluttered up with links they can’t use.
Give it a try!
- Download the Plugin
- Unzip into your Wordpress plugins folder
- Activate the plugin
- Add the widget to your site!
If you have any suggestions or feedback, please feel free to post below.
23 responses so far ↓
1 Tony Crouch // Aug 31, 2007 at 10:16 am
Any way to activate this without using the widget?
2 kdmurray // Sep 1, 2007 at 5:44 am
The only way I can think of would be to copy the necessary code out of the plugin files, and paste it directly into whichever theme you’re using. But if that’s the case, it might be just as easy to add the necessary lines to make the theme widget-compatible.
3 Pooka // Sep 4, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I’ve noticed one issue with this… if you are logged in as “admin” the widget does not show up on the main page.
4 kdmurray // Sep 6, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Hmmm…. It seems to be working for me… I’ve got it set up on several different wordpress sites that I manage. Can you let me know a couple of things:
- Which version of Wordpress you’re using (it’s listed on the admin page)
- Which theme you’re using
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6 Sara // Oct 7, 2007 at 3:00 am
Great plugin! I had an issue of the URL being incorrect…I just added my subdirectory to the address in the plugin on each line and it works fine. Thank you for the easy plugin!
7 kdmurray // Oct 7, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Thanks for the feedback, Sara. I’ll have a look and see why it’s not pulling the blog URL correctly and update that for the next version.
8 Erik Ringmar // Nov 29, 2007 at 9:47 pm
I have the same problem as Sara — the subdirectory isn’t picked up. I looked at the plugin code but I’m note quite sure what to do.
Great plugin though. I really like it sitting there in the sidebar.
9 Keith Murray // Jan 16, 2008 at 12:55 am
@Erik, @Sara: Hey you two, I finally figured out what the issue was. It wasn’t something I was able to replicate on my own blog, but found it when doing one up in the office. I published v1.0.9 today and it has a fix that should work for both of you.
10 Sara // Jan 16, 2008 at 5:10 am
Keith, thank you for the email and updated plug-in! Works like a charm.
11 Norman Fellows // Jan 21, 2008 at 11:39 am
Hi Keith!
Admin Links Widget deactivated all my plugins! It didn’t appear in the sidebar either!
Puzzling?
Regards
Norman
12 Keith Murray // Jan 21, 2008 at 2:41 pm
@Norman,
I’m not sure what the problem is but I have a couple of theories:
1. If everything in your sidebar disappeared, my guess is that none of them were widgets. The only downside to WP widgets is that when they’re turned on everything else in the sidebar disappears. If this is the case, you can create “text” widgets and add the other components in by copying/pasting them from your original sidebar code.
2. The widget itself will only show up when the widgets are turned on AND you’re logged in as an administrator. If you’re not an administrator, you won’t see the links.
Hope this helps.
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15 Kent // Feb 12, 2008 at 7:46 am
I am having the similar .problem as Sara did.
The Plugin works fine on one site, but when putting it on another one, mentioned above, it does not set the correct URL, leaving out the domain subdirectory of “wordpress”
The plug in seems to assume the URL rather than detecting it? I do like the working plugin.
16 Keith Murray // Feb 12, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Hi Kent,
If you use the updated plugin (v1.1) it should solve this problem for you.
http://kdmurray.net/2008/02/01/admin-links-widget-for-wordpress-110-released/
17 Kent // Feb 13, 2008 at 7:44 am
Hello Keith,
This was the latest version, but re installed it anyway and got the same result. On one site it works, and the other it does not. The 2 domains are:
http://www.learningfreely.net (not working)
and
http://www.lereninvrijheid.nl (working)
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21 Pär // Apr 28, 2008 at 9:21 am
Hi,
Thank you for an excellent plugin.
The only things I miss in the plugin are:
1) to automatically have the correct path to WP if it is located in a sub directory.
2) to correct xhtml, i.e. to close li-tags. E.g. change
echo ‘Dashboard‘;
to:
echo ‘Dashboard‘;
Kind regards,
Pär
22 Volker // Apr 29, 2008 at 3:59 am
the plugin works fine for me.
but one question:
is it possible to integrate a logout-link ?
Thanks and cheers
Volker
23 ajl // May 30, 2008 at 3:18 am
Same question as Volker… would be perfect than.
cheers ajl
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