Dashboard welcome message

CMS & WordPress
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I’m still on my steep learning curve with Wordpress, so sorry if I am missing something.

I am working on a site and am attempting to simplify the dashboard for site editors, by removing most of the dashboard panels, and adding a welcome message panel.

I have managed to add a new panel, which displays some fixed text, (as specified in my functions.php)

What is the best method of having this fixed text editable, so I can type it and change it via a friendly interface, without changing the functions page each time.

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php skills are pretty good, though mainly procedural rather than oop.

I have been reading, (and rereading) the sitepoint wordpress book, and have managed to create my own widget and widget area.

from another source, and through reading the codex pages, i have created a welcome message on the dashboard.

With wordpress, there seems to be an established way of doing things, so i thought, this must have been done before, and as I learn best by example, a few pointers in the right direction would set me on my way.

thanks

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[FONT=“Georgia”]Hi, crushfor. Have a look at some of the plug-ins and links in this thread.

They’ll be a big help for what you want to do.

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You wouldn’t need to create a new table. You could have an option in the wp_options table. eg. “dashboard_welcome_message”

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I don’t know the tabling system WP uses that well. I would argue that you could add it to a table OR make a new table. I kind of think a whole table for one recond is kind of weird. The other option is have it read a static/flat file.

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Crush, how well do you know PHP?

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just to clarify…

The function which supplies the content to my dashboard widget is

function welcomeMessage_wp_dashboard() {

echo "<h2>Welcome to the XXX Website Editor</h2>";
echo "<p>Here is where you change the content of the site</p>";

}

What i can’t work out, is how to replace this fixed text with something that an admin can edit via the wp-admin interface.

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thanks for the feedback.

yes, i was looking to give admin (only) the rights to edit the content of the welcome message.

in answer to Shaun, i did take a look at white label CMS, it looks very good, but I wanted lo learn how to do this stuff myself.

Regards

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Are you wanting people who have the admin role to be able to edit it for editors/authors/contributors?/