WP admin pages/Dashboard pulled from Bricks pages

Feature Requests
#1

Hi!
I would like to see in bricksforge the possibility to can assign pages that we create with bricks to show in in the Dashboard or in a new admin page.

Something similar at that:

But out of the box.

Ithought on that because I think it’s not so far from the maintenance mode that we have already.

By the way, The password for maintenance mode will arrive in the nexts days/weeks?

Thank You

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#2

Hi Marco,

thanks for this feature request!

What the others think about this? Is this needed for Bricksforge? :slight_smile:

PS: Password for maintenance is planned for the 0.9.2.

#3

It is in line with BricksForge customizing the client/user experience (like limiting by role, in this case it would be a dashboard page per role for onboarding per role) and as long as the feature is limited to bricks pages it is a helper for Bricks users. If this feature does try to be compatible with pages from other builders (for that the WP Admin Pages plug-in does a good job already) I think it could be looked into as a extension. I would second the request given above limitations and viablity.

#4

Completely agree. Have to be focused on bricks.

#5

From a technical standpoint it would be probably the easiest to load a Bricks page or maybe even template (but a template would be missing a publishing context for ACF etc.) or a custom CPT for these type of pages in a full size iFrame adding a role limit. That would mitigate backend and frontend resources being mixed in the same DOM scope. I haven’t looked into how WP Admin Pages takes care of that “problem”. Just a gut feeling on how it could be achieved without running into unintended side effects hell. From one BricksForge user to another.

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#6

Very old boilerplate maybe worth to look at

It could be the beginning for a iFrame wrapper and optional JS bridge (postMessage). The hooks used seem to be:

wp_set_dashboard

and

wp_redirect_dashboard

#7

I generally prefer a vanilla dashboard, aside from the welcome screen, which I’d love to replace with a Bricks template. Cool idea :slight_smile:

#8

There are at least two options, full page replacement and the usual resizable widgets. A third option might be the space WordPress itself uses to announce a new WordPress version (half page on the regular dashboard).

#9

god the amount of people who would get into bricksforge if that was there, and if there was a way to bloody style that wordpress left sidebar menu, oh my god, people would be so happy.

#10

Nice idea but so long as it doesn’t slow things down. Other admin modification plugins all have a really negative effect on admin performance which just isn’t worth the trade-off.

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#11

If you only act on the hooks it should be performant.

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