This plugin aims to merge development of frontend backend wordpress themes and further the goal of really making wordpress CMS and not just tool.
When used with such plugins like Dashboard Widget Sidebar, Dashboard Notes, Magic Widgets, admins are given complete control to build there admin in similar way that front end themes are build ..
While there's really not that much too this plugin, my hopes are that it will inspire better developers to take widget approach to building admin interfaces.
With such community the admin changes could have lot more potential if we give designers and average users the ability to customize their entire site..
This plugin also adds 'user which lets you show and hide in the welcome panel and thoughout your installation to different roles and capabilities.
However, if the registers scripts or styles for the frontend only then those will not show up in the interface.
To make the wordpress backend work more like the frontend.
While this plugin merely consists of simple functions, I'm hoping it helps people to see the potential of editing the backend using widgets.
As I discovered from Tochos Magic Widgets, changing the wordpress admin is as simple as adding widgets to different hook locations within the backend...
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