Title: Add Dashboard Columns
Author: Sergio
Published: <strong>01 Febroary 2014</strong>
Last modified: 17 Novambra 2020

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Add Dashboard Columns

 By [Sergio](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kallookoo/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/add-dashboard-columns.2.0.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/add-dashboard-columns/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/add-dashboard-columns/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/add-dashboard-columns/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/add-dashboard-columns/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-dashboard-columns/)

## Description

Enable Dashboard Columns in WordPress 3.8 or later

## Installation

 1. In your WordPress admin panel, go to _Plugins > New Plugin_, search for **add-dashboard-
    columns** and click “_Install now_“
 2. Alternatively, download the plugin and upload the contents of `add-dashboard-columns.
    zip` to your plugins directory, which usually is `/wp-content/plugins/`.
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 4. Go to the Dashboard and change the layout columns inside the Screen options.

## FAQ

### What meta delete?

This plugin delete screen_layout_dashboard and screen_layout_dashboard-network.

### Why not delete meta-box-order_dashboard or meta-box-order_dashboard-network?

Basically because I do not consider it necessary, and may be an established order
has not been changed and the number of columns.

### Is possible disabled for a specific user or network site?

Yes, use the `add_dashboard_columns_enabled` filter to switch.
 Note: It does not
remove any configuration simply prevents to fire the hook.

### I activated it but it does not show the layout, what happens?

The most certain thing is that the assets are missing, since they are checked to
avoid UX issues.

### Needs support?

Please, use the WordPress plugin forums [support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-dashboard-columns/).

### You found an error?

Please, create an [issue](https://github.com/kallookoo/add-dashboard-columns/issues/new).

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[WORKS!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-1397/)󠁿

 [Celio Oliveira](https://profiles.wordpress.org/c3llio/) 24 Jolay 2019

This one really works! Thank you very much.

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-dashboard-columns/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Add Dashboard Columns” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Sergio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kallookoo/)

“Add Dashboard Columns” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/add-dashboard-columns/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Add Dashboard Columns” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/add-dashboard-columns)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/add-dashboard-columns/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/add-dashboard-columns/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/add-dashboard-columns/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/add-dashboard-columns/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.0.0

 * The plugin is modified to improve performance.
 * Add filter `add_dashboard_columns_enabled` to switch.
 * Now the meta is deleted when the plugin is deleted.

#### 1.5

 * Check support
 * Register action and filters if is admin only
 * Move class to child folder
 * Change 3 to 2 on default layout_columns option
 * Use delete_metadata to delete screen_layout_dashboard and screen_layout_dashboard-
   network
 * Check and pass WordPress Coding Standards for PHP

#### 1.4.1

 * Change to static class and check support

#### 1.4

 * Change code for working with WordPress 4.8

#### 1.3.5

 * Rewrite plugin
 * Delete meta on plugin deactivation ( Tested with 10000 users with meta, single
   installation and multisite installation )

#### 1.3.4.2

 * Remove register_deactivation_hook, because on many users it may not work properly

#### 1.3.4.1

 * Fix WP CLI

#### 1.3.4

 * Rewrite plugin
 * Delete in WordPress 4.6+ screen_layout_dashboard, meta-box-order_dashboard,
    
   also delete if multisite screen_layout_dashboard-network, meta-box-order_dashboard-
   network on deactivation

#### 1.3.3

 * Check support
 * Use bootstrap media for clean CSS
 * Remove admin_enqueue_scripts, now uses admin_head-index.php to print Custom CSS

#### 1.3.2

 * Check support
 * Add donation link in plugin page

#### 1.3.1

 * Check support

#### 1.3

 * Check support
 * clean directories/files

#### 1.2

 * Check support

#### 1.1

 * Check support
 * Fix bad url on css file

#### 1.0

 * Initial version

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0.0**
 *  Last updated **5 taona ago**
 *  Active installations **500+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.5.18**
 *  PHP version ** 5.3 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-dashboard-columns/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/add-dashboard-columns/),
   [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/add-dashboard-columns/), [Spanish (Venezuela)](https://ve.wordpress.org/plugins/add-dashboard-columns/),
   sy [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/add-dashboard-columns/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/add-dashboard-columns)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[columns](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/columns/)
   [dashboard](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)[dashboard columns](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard-columns/)
   [widget](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mg.wordpress.org/plugins/add-dashboard-columns/advanced/)

## Ratings

 Kintana 5 amin'ny 5.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Sergio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kallookoo/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-dashboard-columns/)

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