Does a dashboard style plugin exist which allows ranking?

  • I have been tasked with creating a dashboard on our WordPress site, which displays information about 22 different issues in 8 categories in a grid-like format or similar, like this image.

    So in short, the customer name, the item colour, label and position on the y-axis and column on the x-axis will all be in the database. Am I living in cloud cuckoo land or is there a plugin that will allow something like this? My guess is there might be a meta-plugin which allows someone to code something on top, is that possible? A plugin subscription fee would be preferable to a contract with a WordPress developer. Worst case scenario is that this just isn’t going to be possible on WordPress ??

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Everything’s possible, though this looks like something that would need custom coding. However, check out some of these HR-type plugins: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search/employee+responsibility

    Thread Starter Adam

    (@ahardy42)

    Thanks for the suggestion. It’s seriously difficult to nail down what the whole WordPress plugin landscape actually looks like, but I’m slowly getting the idea. In that search result you gave, there are solutions for specific types of website categorised by business sector requirements, e.g. staff & HR, or location-based company directories.

    And I think the whole WP plugin landscape is oriented that way. There are many plugins providing specific website functionality targeted at specific sectors.

    My problem is that my requirement is really niche, so I can hardly expect to find a suitable plugin, unless it happens to provide the functionality in a really generic way where any business from any sector could use it on their data for their own wildly diverse purposes.

    Doesn’t seem likely that anyone’s going to figure it’s worth coding up a plugin to generically place data items on a dashboard with configurable headings, colours configured according to the data and even the relative positions configured by the data.

    Thread Starter Adam

    (@ahardy42)

    Just thinking out loud, is this similar to a news feed front page with columns?

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