Dashboard

Dashboard CMS is a plugin that replaces the default WordPress dashboard with large, easy buttons, making the admin area much more approachable for clients. I have it auto-activated on my WPMU 2.9 sites and network-activated on my WP3 installs. The problem is it was not WP3 compatible. I found a WP3 version that added user privilege checks before showing each button, but it dropped backward compatibility with legacy installs. I merged the two files together using get_version() to determine which code path to execute. ...

Are you trying to customize the WordPress dashboard across all sites on a WPMU or WP3 multi-site network? Most plugin solutions for this operate on a per-blog basis, which means you have to configure each site manually. Most code snippet solutions are outdated, and many get things like the Recent Drafts widget wrong. Recent Drafts is a “side” meta box, not a normal one, and a lot of scripts miss it entirely, so it persists even after everything else is removed. ...