The Right Now box in the current implementation is the most important meta box for me. Give me warnings or caution signs of things that don’t seem right such as a page or link that is causing 404 errors for people, the average page load on the site increasing to an unacceptable level, etc. The more I think about it, the more I’d like to see the Dashboard function just like the Dashboard in my car. Not only thinking about how the current implementation can be improved, but also what is the Dashboard really supposed to accomplish? Let’s also dedicate some time and discussion in creating an all new Dashboard concept just to see where it goes. Personally, I think the Dashboard concept needs to be completely rethought. Some people even suggested to just get rid of the entire Dashboard concept and just forward people to the post creation screen or the settings screen depending on the user role. Reading over the survey responses, I get the feeling that people need a ton of hand holding to get anything done or to navigate anywhere within the WordPress back-end. The issue I take with those responses is that I’m not a client. Taking into consideration that many of the survey respondents are developers and consultants, many of their answers correlate with what they commonly experience with clients. Stats were another popular suggestion for the Dashboard whether it was the stats that come with Jetpack or Google Analytics, a lot of people just want to see stats right on the Dashboard. I wonder if the Admin bar is not being seen, is not being used, or simply isn’t the answer. For example: A widget called “I would like to…” with a list of common tasks (add new post/page/media/theme/plugin, moderate comments, etc.) that would take the user straight to that section of wp-admin ” While you can’t access all tasks within the Dashboard, the Admin Bar already facilitates a quick way to create a new Post, Media, Page, User, Role, and if you have GravityForms installed, Forms. The majority of answers revolve around the idea of creating a Quicklinks Dashboard widget that would enable a quick way to accomplish common tasks. Question 5 asked If you could wave a magic wand, what types of things would you show on the Dashboard? These answers are also publicly available as a CSV file and I thought were interesting. I browsed through the document and was not surprised at the amount of people who remove most of the Dashboard widgets or completely redesign the Dashboard to fit their project.
Question 4 asked What sort of modifications do you typically make to the Dashboard (for yourself or for clients), and why? There is no illustration since the results are text-based but the CSV containing the responses is publicly available. Question 3 asked, How often do you post with QuickPress? it’s almost comical to see the response of Never take 92% of the vote.
I would have thought that the Welcome Screen would have the least amount of votes to be removed but the Recent Comments widget claimed that position. WordPress Blog, Plugins, and Incoming Links were generally close to taking the third spot. Out of 416 answers, when asked Which sections of the Dashboard do you never use (and think should go away?) Other WordPress News took first place with 79% of the vote with QuickPress a very close second at 78% they were within 3 votes of each other. Knowing that the majority of responses were from the developer community, the results don’t surprise me one bit. There were 438 responses which is a good sample to start from but Dave mentions that the survey has biased results as most of the people who participated were developers. Dave Martin also known as Lessbloat has published the results from the Dashboard survey.
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