1.5 Shackelford

Celebrate! Rejoice! Client Dash 1.5 is released. This version of Client Dash is a ground breaking one. It introduces a huge amount of new features. Version 1.5 focuses on the new dashboard widget customization tools.

Dashboard Widgets

Ever wanted to customize the dashboard widgets, but don't want to code? Well that's unfortunate, because WordPress does not allow this. But wait! What's that? A bird? A plane? A super awesome WordPress plugin? It's Client Dash! Now you have the tools at hand to customize the crap out of the dashboard. You can do the following:

• Re-order any existing dashboard widget with an easy to use, drag and drop system.
• Add or remove any available widget.
• Completely drop Client Dash core widgets.

Simply hop on over to Settings -> Widgets and just go nuts!

Display (previously Roles)

We've renamed the "Roles" section to "Display". Why? Well, just to make things more complicated! Okay... not really. We've added some new features and improvements to the Roles section that just made it seem more appropriate to name it Display.

There's now convenient on/off switches for completely disabling pages globally with one click. There's also a new "Reset" button for the Display tab. Have you gone too crazy with customizing and want to set it back to the default? Simply press the button. Oh, and we've also added role defaults to what we think makes the most sense. We also went ahead and reversed the checkbox logic. Because it didn't really make sense before... Now if something is checked, it's visible. If it's not checked, it's not visible. We've ALSO added some handy tool tips to let you know if the page is disabled for everyone so you can turn it off with the switch instead.

Content Sections (previously Content Blocks)

Oh boy... they're renaming everything! Content blocks used to stack vertically on each tab. Which could easily get crazy tall. Now they're broken up into sections that function similarly to tabs, but just underneath in another tier. They're more of "sections" now.

Tools

Finally, we've added a "Tools" tab. Right now, this tab just contains a button to perform a global setting reset (which is awesome by the way), but we have big plans for the future of this tab.

Error on Addons page

Fixed styling issue on Settings -> Addons.

1.4

Vuela! Client Dash 1.4 has hit the table. There are some great improvements that we are very excited about. This update focuses on the new system of Roles.

Roles

Client dash will now integrate very nicely with standard WordPress roles, AND custom created roles. You have the option of allowing different roles to see different content.

This is simple and easy to do. Simply hop on over to the Settings->Roles section and customize the user experience to your liking.

New Tabs / Features

We were also sure to add some cool tabs and features.

• Added new Domain tab on the Help page for viewing useful information about your domain and its specifications.
• Added support for custom post types under Reports -> Site.
• Added a link to view current role capabilities under Account -> About You.
• Added references to THREE, yes three, new extensions on the Addons tab on the Settings page.

Developers

We didn't forget about you guys! There's some new features that will make your lives much easier as well.

• Custom WP nag messages based on capabilities.
• New "Content Block" system for easy content creation/management.
• Added some new helpful new CSS classes to work with.

PHP Error on Settings Page

It's possible for the user to install Client Dash, and then head straight to the Settings page without ever visiting the Dashboard. Visiting the Dashboard is what populates the CD option for existing widgets. So because the user bypassed this, the Settings page was confused.

I added a nag for this to remind the user to visit the Dashboard once for this option to become available.

More Addons Options

The user can now install, activate, and deactivate available Client Dash addons from right inside the Addons page (in Settings).

"Dashicons", under Settings, is now "Icons".

1.3

With version 1.3 rolled out, Client Dash has some major improvements. This update focuses highly on improving the Webmaster experience.

Webmaster

The webmaster now has the ability to customize the Icons for the 4 core Client Dash pages (account, reports, help, webmaster). The webmaster can choose from any of the existing Dashicons inside of WordPress.

There is also now a dashboard widget for the Webmaster.

Settings

There is now an Addons page under Settings where the user can browse available Client Dash extensions.

Other changes and fixes

• Added alert for empty Webmaster tab.
• Added ability to change number of feed entries pulled.
• Re-worded media-library size under reports.
• Added error catching for feeds.

Proper Role Names

Our friend, sethta, generously fixed a small issue with roles. We were not accounting for custom roles. He fixed that up for us.

He also noticed we were using a deprecated function to get the themes.

Code Reformat

We switched to an IDE (PHPStorm) that does automatic code reformatting to WordPress PHP standards. We ran this through all of our code and fixed it up.

We also fixed:

*PHP warning
*Require once was using local paths and breaking in some instances. We now generate dynamic server links.

1.2

This new release adds some great features to Client Dash. This update focuses on the Webmaster experience as well as some new extension capabilities.

Webmaster

There is now a special tab under Settings for the Webmaster. In this page, the user can disable/enable the Webmaster page itself. The user can also rename "Webmaster" to whatever they want (probably their business name). There is now also the ability to add custom content to the Webmaster page.

Extensions

Extensions now have the ability to add tabs to any of the 4 core Client Dash pages easily and efficiently.

Other Changes

• More settings available from Settings->Client Dash

1.1

Version 1.1 rolls out some really cool features to Client Dash. This update focuses on adding a new Settings page.

Settings

There is now an options page under Settings->Client Dash. This page can control the Client Dash core in some new ways. The user can opt to keep specific widgets on the dashboard.

Other Changes

• Removal of existing dashboard widgets is now automatic, so it will catch ALL widgets.
• Removed "Screen Options" and "Help" from the dashboard.