Dashboard enhancement

Sounds like an excellent idea Steve.

I have various links to the Codex and other useful sites as well as a combination of 5 feeds from other sources.

Don’t wait for it happen. Just add your own. Hard code them in and it’s done just the way you want it ??

Yeah, not only the updates from the Dev blogs, but links to useful sites are good. For example, link to theme designers which can enable newbies (like me) to use different themes at the beginning.

btw, where should I edit in order to change the layout and data showed on Dashboard?

Look for something like this in your index.php in wp-admin.
Somewhere around line 89/90

<h2><?php _e('Dashboard'); ?></h2>

Change the stuff below that and have a play.

Don’t forget to back up your file first ??

Yeah it would be easy to add it hacking my code, but i really don’t need it, my bookmarks on firefox has all souce I need, but I though it would be helpfull for new users

Speaking of enhancing the Dashboard…

If you want, take a look at https://cjbehm.dyndns.org/wingingit/dashboard-options/ — the plugin download and instructions are both there.

It provides a way to disable the three RSS feeds and put in your own custom message text. I’m toying with the idea of adding another set of options for putting in your own RSS feeds. It shouldn’t be too much more work than what’s already been done.

If you haven’t already customized your wp-admin/index.php file, then you can just replace it with the included index.php and put dashboard_opts.php in the plugins folder. Otherwise, the directions on the page describe the edits required for the plugin to work.