Custom widget for WordPress dashboard
Sometimes you want to provide additional info to customers in the backend. You can solve this by using a widget where you can paste HTML – the code is, as almost always, best placed in the functions.php of your current theme:
/** Dashboard Widget */
add_action('ja_dashboard_setup', 'jado_dashboard_widgets');
function jado_dashboard_widgets()
{
global $wp_meta_boxes;
wp_add_dashboard_widget('custom_widget', 'Problems or questions?', 'jado_dashboard_information');
}
function jado_dashboard_information()
{
echo 'Please ask at <a href="mailto:ask@ja.do">ask@ja.do</a>';
}