Add custom post types to the At a Glance Dashboard widget

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This snippet adds your custom post types to the "At a Glance" widget on your WordPress Dashboard. By default, only Posts and Pages display, but this snippet will allow you to pull in counters for all of your CPTs.

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Voted: 1 by 1 user(s)

How to Setup Snippet

• "Only run in administration area" in the snippet settings. • You will need to replace "custom-post-type-x" with the slug of your custom post type.

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https://www.jdab.co.uk

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Last modified:

30/11/2023

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Potential vulnerability found : Cross Site Scripting
Found on line : 18
Code : printf( '<span class="page-count">%1$s</span>', esc_html( $text )
Vulnerable line : 13
Code : $text = _n( $cpt_info->labels->singular_name, $cpt_info->labels->name, $num )); // phpcs:ignore WordPress.WP.I18n.NonSingularStringLiteralSingle,WordPress.WP.I18n.NonSingularStringLiteralPlural

Found 1 vulnerabilities

Add custom post types to the At a Glance Dashboard widget

 
                     1// Add custom post types to the At a Glance Dashboard widget
 2function ataglance_dashboard_items( $items ) {
 3 
 4// Set the array of post types to display.
 5$post_types = array( 'custom-post-type-1','custom-post-type-2','custom-post-type-3');
 6 
 7foreach ( $post_types as $cpt ) {
 8    $cpt_info  = get_post_type_object( $cpt );
 9    $num_posts = wp_count_posts( $cpt );
10    $num       = absint( $num_posts->publish + $num_posts->private );
11 
12    if ( $num ) {
13        $text = _n( $cpt_info->labels->singular_name, $cpt_info->labels->name, $num ); // phpcs:ignore WordPress.WP.I18n.NonSingularStringLiteralSingle,WordPress.WP.I18n.NonSingularStringLiteralPlural
14        $num  = number_format_i18n( $num );
15 
16        if ( current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) {
17            $text = '<a class="page-count ' . esc_attr( $cpt_info->name ) . '-count" href="edit.php?post_type=' . esc_attr( $cpt ) . '">' . $num . ' ' . esc_html( $text ) . '</a>';
18        } else {
19            $text = sprintf( '<span class="page-count">%1$s</span>', esc_html( $text ) );
20        }
21 
22        $items[] = $text;
23    }
24}
25return $items;
26}
27add_filter( 'dashboard_glance_items', 'ataglance_dashboard_items', 1 );

Comments

Jamie Dąbrowiecki

9 months ago

Updated today to remove xss vulnerability.

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