Title: Laughing Squid Web Hosting News & Status WordPress Dashboard Widget
Author: Shelby DeNike
Published: <strong>22. Juni 2012</strong>
Last modified: 7. Dezember 2016

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Laughing Squid Web Hosting News & Status WordPress Dashboard Widget

 By [Shelby DeNike](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sdenike/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget.zip)

 * [Details](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/)

## Description

The Laughing Squid Web Hosting News & Status WordPress Dashboard Widget provides
status information within your WordPress dashboard pulled directly from the [Laughing Squid Web Hosting News & Status blog](http://laughingsquidhosting.wordpress.com/).

## Screenshots

[⌊Dashboard Widget in action⌉⌊Dashboard Widget in action⌉[

Dashboard Widget in action

## Installation

 1. Upload `laughing-squid-dashboard-widget.php` to the `wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‚Plugins‘ menu in WordPress
 3. Enjoy!, there are no settings for this.

## FAQ

### Is this part of the Laughing Squid Blog?

Nope, this is to provide status updates to the [Laughing Squid Web Hosting](https://laughingsquid.us)
customers that are using WordPress.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Laughing Squid Web Hosting News & Status WordPress Dashboard Widget” is open source
software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Shelby DeNike ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sdenike/)

[Translate “Laughing Squid Web Hosting News & Status WordPress Dashboard Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.0

 * Works with WordPress 4.7

#### 1.9

 * Works with WordPress 4.6

#### 1.8

 * Works with WordPress 4.5
 * Updated Author URI

#### 1.7

 * Works with WordPress 4.3

#### 1.6

 * Works with WordPress 4.2.2

#### 1.5

 * Works with WordPress 4.1
 * Removed a few extra line breaks

#### 1.4

 * Added Admin bar menu.
 * Updated RSS URL

#### 1.3

 * Updated the feed URL.

#### 1.2

 * Updated plugin name.

#### 1.1

 * Fixed some grammatical errors.

#### 1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0**
 *  Last updated **10 Jahren ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.7.38**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [dashboard](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)[Hosting](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hosting/)
   [news](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/news/)[widget](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

Es wurden noch keine Rezensionen eingereicht.

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Shelby DeNike ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sdenike/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/laughing-squid-dashboard-widget/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](https://shelbydenike.com/)