Add dashboard widget
afragen opened this issue · comments
Idea from @azaozz, https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C18723MQ8/p1582501567010100
Widget would display after a new beta/RC with link to what to test, likely form release post from make/core or commit messages from RSS.
First pass is something like the following.
Simplify message to just call to action for testing. Link is to closed milestoned trac tickets.
Yeah, thinking the above screenshot makes sense when the plugin is activated but the site is not on a "test" stream.
If it's going to link to https://wordpress.org/news/category/development/ the top line could probably be:
Help test {post_title} released on {post_date}.
Perhaps followed by a short excerpt from the post?
If the site is on a testing stream, perhaps the message should be something like:
Your website was updated to WordPress version {wp_version} on {date/time}. The latest changes are outlined in {post_title}.
(Seems the info can be pulled from https://wordpress.org/news/category/development/feed/ relatively easily).
Yeah, thinking the above screenshot makes sense when the plugin is activated but the site is not on a "test" stream.
If the plugin is active it will always be on a test stream.
wp_widget_rss_output() doesn't provide any parsing. 🙁
just gave this a spin and it's great!!!
It should also add the widget to the Network dashboard in multisite.
In multisite, I think the widget should appear on the network dashboard and each site's dashboard as well, for maximum visibility.