WordPress MU

I am trying to customize the dashboard to let my users edit the source of RSS feeds (currently from WP Development Blog). This is available to admin, a simple edit function, but all of my users are set to 'author'.

I've found the dashboard.php file, made some adjustments there so that I now have 6 RSS feed source boxes and nothing else showing on the dashboard. If I go to schema.php I see the capabilities associated with each role, including the final piece of code assigning 'edit_dashboard' to the administrator.

Changing this to 'author' doesn't work, nor does duplicating it with 'author' instead of 'admin. Wondering if someone might see a solution.

UPDATE - duplicating this for author does work for new blogs, just didn;t show up for existing blogs.

Cheers

This'll probably work for MU: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dashboard-widget-manager/

Wow. Nice find. If this works without making edits to the code it will be sweet.

Thx

Not sure if you can add new widgets to that plugin.

@scotm
i think probably giving out the feed address code [such as in theme header] in place of static feed address in dashboard.php can do the trick.

Wow. Nice find.

No finding involved -- I wrote it. :P

Not sure if you can add new widgets to that plugin.

You can, the same way a plugin adds sidebar widgets (that's really all the dashboard is behind the scenes -- a sidebar).

Here's a bunch of new dashboard widgets:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/dashboard-widget