New Add-on: dashEE

Billed as a complete replacement for the EE2 control panel, dashEE (here we go again with that naming convention) is an open source tool for giving you more control over how your control panel looks.

Announcing the add-on, the developer, Chris Monnat, writes:

The idea behind dashEE is to create a completely customizable EE dashboard where users can choose the kind of information they want to see and developers can add custom functionality through the development of widgets. dashEE allows developers to create custom widgets that can be installed by themselves or that can be packaged with your custom modules.

I installed dashEE to try it out and it does exactly as Chris shows in the video. There was some oddness when trying to access widgets (the homepage of my site was displayed); I didn’t dig deeper to find out what what was happening but I think this is a developers tool for right now. Maybe some developers will create their own widgets as well as fork the project on Github and add their own contributions to dashEE. Chris made it open source, so hopefully everyone will feel inclined to contribute.

If you want to try out dashEE, you can download the add-on for free from Github.