Title: Dashboard Message
Author: Nicolas Bouliane
Published: <strong>July 27, 2010</strong>
Last modified: July 27, 2010

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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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# Dashboard Message

 By [Nicolas Bouliane](https://profiles.wordpress.org/n1c0_ds/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/dashboard-message-for-wordpress.zip)

 * [Details](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-message-for-wordpress/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-message-for-wordpress/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-message-for-wordpress/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-message-for-wordpress/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dashboard-message-for-wordpress/)

## Description

Displays a custom message on the dashboard with full HTML/PHP/JavaScript support.
Useful for administrator who have clients as users.

The plugin will display anything that’s in the message.php file in the plugin’s 
directory. Since the plugin uses a simple include,
 any kind of content is supported.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The plugin in action

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload ‘plugin-name.php’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Put your message in the ‘message.php’ file in the plugin’s directory

## FAQ

  Are there plans to make editing message.php easier?

Not yet, but if anyone asks for it, I’ll be glad to include that feature.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Nicolas Bouliane ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/n1c0_ds/)

[Translate “Dashboard Message” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/dashboard-message-for-wordpress)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Everything works.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.0.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-message-for-wordpress/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[administrator](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/administrator/)
   [dashboard](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)[message](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/message/)
   [widget](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-message-for-wordpress/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Nicolas Bouliane ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/n1c0_ds/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

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

## Donate

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 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://nicolasbouliane.com)