I’ve been working on Webmacster87.info 5 the past few days, and it’s really starting to look good. (It’s housed in a super-secret hard-to-find location somewhere on the Webmacster87.info servers.) However, I thought that I’d blog about one really useful plugin that I found.

One of the things that’s kind of annoying about WordPress is the Dashboard, in that it covers itself with a bunch of stuff taken from a whole bunch of WordPress sites, and most people don’t really care about much of the stuff, particularly the WordPress Planet stuff at the bottom of the Dashboard.

Meet Dashboard Editor. This sweet plugin adds a new tab to the Dashboard which lets you control what shows up. You can individually remove different sections of the Dashboard to only show what works for you (I found that just getting rid of the WordPress Planet section sufficed for me). But it gets even better, in that you can choose to remove everything on the Dashboard except the header and footer, and it provides a text field where you can literally design your own Dashboard. Also, if you have WordPress 2.2, or else 2.0/2.1 with the Sidebar Widgets plugin, Dashboard Editor allows you to add Sidebar Widgets to be displayed on the Dashboard (you configure which widgets to display in the normal place, just as if the Dashboard is another sidebar).

Check it out at the WordPress Plugins Directory.