Fabrica Dashboard

April 23, 2024

Fabrica Dashboard Plugin

Replaces the default Dashboard widgets to provide a much better overview of your site's content and activity as soon as you log in.

Fabrica Dashboard gives you a better overview of your content and site activity, especially useful for multi-user editorial sites. Its widgets give you an instant insight into:

  • the Posts, Pages, Blocks and custom content types that make up your site
  • recent activity and updates across content, media, and comments
  • upload sizes / formats and possible security issues

No configuration needed:

  • automatically shows any Custom Post Types or Custom Taxonomies used by themes or plugins
  • respects each user’s role and privileges
  • compatible with other Dashboard widgets (WooCommerce, Analytics, etc)

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/fabrica-dashboard directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.

That’s all. No configuration required, although you can switch the default Dashboard widgets back on if you want to.

Screenshots

  1. Full view of Fabrica Dashboard

    Full view of Fabrica Dashboard

  2. Editorial Overview: summary counts of published items and registered users, allowing you to keep an eye on size and growth effortlessly between your logins.

    Editorial Overview: summary counts of published items and registered users, allowing you to keep an eye on size and growth effortlessly between your logins.

  3. Content Breakdown: a table of all the content types in the site, including draft, scheduled and trashed items.

    Content Breakdown: a table of all the content types in the site, including draft, scheduled and trashed items.

  4. Content Activity: all the recent additions and edits across all content types, in one list.

    Content Activity: all the recent additions and edits across all content types, in one list.

  5. Media Breakdown: everything in the <code>uploads</code> folder, organized by type and including total file sizes. Non-permitted file types are flagged with a warning, helping you to see if your site has been compromised.

    Media Breakdown: everything in the uploads folder, organized by type and including total file sizes. Non-permitted file types are flagged with a warning, helping you to see if your site has been compromised.

  6. Discussion Overview: for sites with comments enabled, an instant sense of how public participation is going, with total comment numbers, and a summary of what's happened since you last logged in.

    Discussion Overview: for sites with comments enabled, an instant sense of how public participation is going, with total comment numbers, and a summary of what's happened since you last logged in.

  7. Comments Activity: a quick overview of recent comments, with a toggle to see comments on your own content only.

    Comments Activity: a quick overview of recent comments, with a toggle to see comments on your own content only.

  8. Site / You: personalized for the current site and user, giving additional useful information, such as how long since the last change on the site, and how long since your last login.

    Site / You: personalized for the current site and user, giving additional useful information, such as how long since the last change on the site, and how long since your last login.

FAQ

Does it vomit all over my site like 99% of plugins?

Absolutely not. Fabrica Dashboard is clean, tidy and efficient – to look at and under the hood.

  • Does not add tables to the database
  • Does not add any code to your front-end
  • Follows WordPress styles and conventions
  • Has only one setting (a checkbox to unhide the default widgets) and removes it on uninstall

Changelog

1.0.17

  • Fix filtered comments types

1.0.16

  • Minor bugfixes

1.0.15

  • Minor bugfixes

1.0.14

  • Minor bugfixes

1.0.13

  • PHP 8.1 compatibility

1.0.12

  • Minor bugfixes

1.0.11

  • Multisite compatibility

1.0.10

  • Minor bugfixes

1.0.9

  • Fix bug affecting tag in wp-admin

1.0.8

  • Minor bugfixes

1.0.7

  • GPL compatibility

1.0.6

  • Gutenberg compatibility, free edition and other small fixes

1.0.5

  • Minor tweaks and fixes

1.0

  • Officially released after a long beta and extensive internal use on our own projects

Details

  • Version: 1.0.17
  • Active installations: 90
  • WordPress Version: 4.0
  • Tested up to: 6.5.5
  • PHP Version: 5.4

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