Title: New Hack: DashLite
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# New Hack: DashLite

 *  [joshuastreet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuastreet/)
 * (@joshuastreet)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-hack-dashlite/)
 * This hack isn’t particularly innovative or complicated, but I feel there’s a 
   need for it regardless. The Dashboard in 1.5 is superfluous to many users needs—
   whilst WordPress development is something followed by some of us, many users 
   couldn’t care less _what_ it is, so long as it works.
 * Of course, that’s not the only problem with the Dashboard — it also takes a substantial
   time to load, even on fast servers with fast connections, simply because it’s
   dependent on other sources being available for syndication. When a DNS server
   was slow the other day, it took 72 seconds for the Dashboard to load here — admittedly,
   that’s the fault of the DNS server, but it proves the point nicely.
 * In light of this, I’ve written a simple drop-in replacement for the WordPress
   Dashboard index page, which doesn’t syndicate any external content whilst still
   providing a quick overview of the internal status of the weblog.
 * You can see screenshots of DashLite on my personal weblog, as well as download
   the source (released under GPL).
 * [DashLite 1.0, an alternative “Dashboard” for WordPress 1.5](http://www.joahua.com/blog/2005/03/19/dashlite-an-alternative-dashboard-for-wordpress-15)

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 *  [kpizme](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kpizme/)
 * (@kpizme)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-hack-dashlite/#post-171768)
 * Nice! Any way to list “new users since last login” ?

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