DashLite 1.1 – The “I-don’t-read-long-posts” edition

08 Apr 2005

I announced this at the bottom of the post A response to DashLite criticism, but figured not many people would actually read that far… so I’m announcing it separately.

Essentially, version 1.1 re-introduces one only very specific feed, which pulls the “Releases” category from the WordPress development blog. This category is only used for posting updates to software — there is no announcement of community events, milestones, etc. To view exactly what’s being syndicated, visit the Releases category page.

Basically, this syndicates new release information and displays it in the “Do Stuff” sidebar, as shown in the screenshot.

Get it

PHP source file, rich formatting (HTML)
Plain text version of the same, save this as-is

To install the update, simply overwrite the wp-admin/index.php file in your WordPress installation — it is advisable you backup your old index.php file first, in case problems arise (none noted in the changes made, but it’s possible you’ll discover something, as always).