K.O

Yea, but how then is the category plugin not picking up on the categories, if they are already within the proper table?

Any new categories i add are being displayed within the category widget.

Confusing stuff!

Thanks!
K.O

Thanks for the links, that wont make a difference unfortunately.
I have already set the upload size limit to 128mb, but after about 300 imports the import returns and error something along the lines of “fatal error maximum memory allocation exhausted”

Re-adding the categories works though, i do have a list of all my categories in a textfile, is there anyway to manually add them into the database?

Are the categories in your terms tables? Use phpMyAdmin to look at that.

Yes, all my categories are within the terms table.

If you visit Posts->Categories do you see your categories?

Just checked and im not seeing any categories there.
On my dashboard however it reports having my 2000+ categories.

If you edit a post, does the post reflect that categories are attached?

Yes if i edit a post, the cateogry is still attached.

Hey apljdi,
WP_Query was used.

Ok so what i gathered from your post was to uncomment the line and add in either query_posts or WP_Query, on the line:
// $drafts = new WP_Query($args);

With this done the widget shows on my subscribers dashboard but displays lots of random php code:

WP_Query Object ( [query_vars] => Array ( [post_status] => drafts [error] => [m] => 0 [p] => 0 [post_parent] => [subpost] => [subpost_id] => [attachment] => [attachment_id] => 0 [name] =>
this goes on for quite a while

Then it just lists off the posts on my homepage, images and text included.

The code im currently using, pretty much the same as what you pasted above:
`// Create the function to output the contents of our Dashboard Widget

function example_dashboard_widget_function() {
// Display whatever it is you want to show
$args= array(
‘post_status’ => ‘drafts’
);
$drafts = query_posts($args);
$drafts = new WP_Query($args);
print_r($drafts);
}

// Create the function use in the action hook

function example_add_dashboard_widgets() {
wp_add_dashboard_widget(‘example_dashboard_widget’, ‘Upcoming Posts’, ‘example_dashboard_widget_function’);
}

// Hook into the ‘wp_dashboard_setup’ action to register our other functions

add_action(‘wp_dashboard_setup’, ‘example_add_dashboard_widgets’ );

Ive absolutely no knowledge of php so please forgive me! :/

Thanks! 🙂

Hey t31os_,

I think what K.O is asking, is how to pull a list of draft posts into a dashboard widget for subscribers only…

Thats exactly what im after!

If you could help me out, that would really be fantastic. Even with the documentation im still unsure of the files needed to edit and where to place the code within them.

Thanks!

Thanks apljdi,
Ive read through the documentation but im still unsure as to where the code should be placed within my files.

Any guidance on where it should be placed would really be appreciated.

Thanks for your time.
– K.O

Hi esmi,
Thanks for the reply!
This works, however its not really what im after.

What i need is for a list of draft names to appear on the subscribers dashboard, once the subscriber logs in.
The above code placed all drafts on a page, in their entirity.

As an example i have made up an image of what it should look like;
[img]http://i47.tinypic.com/2rxheo1.jpg[/img]

It needs to movable aswell, so the subscriber can place it anywhere they wish on the dashboard.

The recent drafts list appears on the administrators dashboard, i would basically like this to show on the subscribers dashboard, minus having the draft links clickable (viewable only)

Thanks again.