Ian Anderson Gray

@mc_will – any thoughts on making the dashboard widget optional or at least having an option to switch it off?

Still forgot to thank you…

Thanks!

Ah, just realised it was you who provided the code and I had forgotten to thank you!

I added the code yesterday and my dashboard has been returned to blissful minimalism! ??

Screen options only gets rid of the dashboard for the current user. When I build WordPress websites for clients I want to make sure the dashboard is as free as possible from clutter. The majority in fact probably all of our clients aren’t going to want to see the Mandrill dashboard widget. The problem with the screen options feature in WordPress is that it relies on the user knowing that it exists and then deselecting the widgets.

My view is that plugins should always have an option as to whether you want the dashboard widget displayed or not. I’m glad to see that Yoast saw the light last year- https://yoast.com/wordpress-dashboard-widgets/

I am a bit of a minimalist, so I’d love the option of whether or not to show the dashboard widget. Would this be possible to add in WPMandrill settings?

Ricky, what are you referring to? The HTML or it not being coded as a list? I haven’t looked recently, but does the plugin not allow HTML in the breadcrumbs? It’s a shame if it doesn’t. Ideally the plugin should allow more customisation for this.

I don’t know how many for sure, I just did a page find and replace swapping all ‘<?=‘ into ‘<?php echo‘ on the wpmandrill.php file.

Just gone through the code in wpmandrill.php and changed all the <?= to <?php echo and it works fine. It would be great if you could update the code to this for future versions.
Thanks.

Ah, I can see from someone else’s thread in this forum that the problem could be to do with your use of php short tags. My server doesn’t allow short tags at all, and I am sure I am not alone in this. Could you please update the plugin to use proper long php tags, otherwise the plugin just breaks…. ??

Thanks, Stephen.

I’m a little confused here, as it seems to work now even though I didn’t alter the code. Has this been fixed in the latest version of EO? If not, maybe I altered the code and forgot about it! I really must remember to comment the code.

Thanks, Stephen. I’ll have a play when I get the chance.

Time is always a problem. Let me know how you get on- I am happy to give feedback or beta test if you need anything.

Best wishes,

Ian

No problem, Stephen, thanks for getting back to me. Glad it wasn’t just me going nuts.

I’m looking forwards to the new update. There isn’t a huge rush for me as I’ll be going away for a holiday at some point.

I’d love to know more about your premium version of EO. How is that going?

Thanks.

Ian

Found out the problem.

For the two sites I am using Event Organiser on there are no blog posts. I am using WordPress purely as a CMS. It seems that the RSS feed only appears when there is at least one blog post and this was causing a 404 for the Event Organiser ics feed.

Do you know if there is a way to force WP to play ball on this even if there is no blog?

Thanks, Stephen- it would be great if this could be added. Your code works really well (although you missed out an ‘ after the first https)

wp_register_script( 'eo_GoogleMap', (is_ssl() ? 'https://' :'https://').'maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=true');

OK, I am talking a load of rubbish. That would only be if the Google Maps file was hosted locally. I really must revise my coding knowledge!

It looks like I’ll just have to change it to use https. In that case, could there be an option in EO to choose whether to load Google Maps using https or http?

Thanks!