Modern admin dashboard

[dbltoe]

The Orders Page uses MAX_DISPLAY_SEARCH_RESULTS_ORDERS
The Home widget page uses $recentOrdersMaxRows in admin\includes\extra_datafiles\dist-site_specific_admin_overrides.php

Unless I've gotten hold of a rogue file somewhere, dist-site_specific_admin_overrides.php is a non-used template with suggestions for settings. In 2.2.0-alpha, it has

// Maximum number of rows to display in the new orders section of the dashboard widget// Used in: admin/includes/modules/RecentOrdersDashboardWidget.php
//
// Change 25 below to the number of rows you require.
//$recentOrdersMaxRows = 25;

I think it's actually line 19 of admin/includes/modules/dashboard_widgets/RecentOrdersDashboardWidget.php

And, the bug is, when line 19 is changed to 20, it does not affect the page. Commenting it out has no effect either.

I haven't tried renaming the dist file and changing settings there.

[pilou2]

Also, are you suggesting to show ALL statuses in that space with the same counters that's currently in the sidebar? This would work with probably 3-4 statuses, but I have a client with 10 statuses - imagine the clutter this would cause... I can't decide which IDs are more important (someone might have ID 75 as Processing), and if you want to have admin control over which orders show and which don't, ugh...

Well, it was not a good idea, I forgot about the fact you can have as many status as you want...

But your idea of customized color is great. This color code system helps to get what is on the screen faster than any writing.

[OldNGrey]

In ​dist-site_specific_admin_overrides.php

// Change 25 below to the number of rows you require.
//$recentOrdersMaxRows = 25;

remove the comment at the beginning off line 71 so it becomes

$recentOrdersMaxRows = 25

and now there are 25 new orders listed on the admin home page.

There are some other settings in that file that are really useful like turning off product images on invoices

[swguy]

The coloring is an excellent idea. Right now we're focused on getting 2.2 out the door but as soon as that's done we'll discuss these changes. Thanks for these improvements!

[balihr]

Some updates:
- dashboard reworked to allow stupid-simple customization - now with drag-and-drop panels
- recent orders widget updated to include selected order statuses in top line
- header whitespace down to minimum
- order status color coding available on Orders Status page
- color coding used on Dashboard, Orders and Orders Status page (with dashboard using Bootstrap fallback for IDs 1-4)

Some info

Dashboard
Drag-and-drop panels can be moved around, but not 100% freely. The layout of the dashboard is:
row 1: main zone (col-9) + sidebar (col-3) (or in simple terms, 75%+25%)
row 2: bottom zone (full width)
Recent Orders and Sales Graphs are too big to fit in any zone other than main (but you can swap them).
Traffic History can only be in the bottom zone.
All other widgets can be rearranged between sidebar and bottom zone.

Recent Orders
Top row shows Pending and Processing "pills" by default (assuming IDs 1 and 2). To change it, you can either edit the RecentOrdersDashboardWidget.php file or set and override in includes/extra_datafiles/site_specific_admin_overrides.php (docs):

$target_status_ids = [1,2,4,7]; // IDs you want to show
$show_status_pills = false; // if you don't want the pills at all

Orders Status
Added color code field to the status add or edit sidebox.

I would suggest installing all 3 modifications (dashboard + header + status color) for the best experience, but all 3 are packed separately in hopes of getting better feedback.

Download link still the same as in Post #1 (for v2.1.0).

I'll play with inline css later on.

[dbltoe]

Partial blank page and the following:

File Contents( /home/enignet/_test/logs/myDEBUG-adm-20260114-181651-212929-error.log)[14-Jan-2026 18:16:51 UTC] Request URI: /******/, IP address: ###.###.###.###, Language id 1
#0 [internal function]: zen_debug_error_handler()
#1 /includes/classes/db/mysql/query_factory.php(757): trigger_error()
#2 /includes/classes/db/mysql/query_factory.php(701): queryFactory->show_error()
#3 /includes/classes/db/mysql/query_factory.php(280): queryFactory->set_error()
#4 /******/includes/modules/dashboard_widgets/RecentOrdersDashboardWidget.php(37): queryFactory->Execute()
#5 /******/index_dashboard.php(88): include('/home/enignet/_...')
#6 /******/index_dashboard.php(315): render_zone()
#7 /******/home.php(27): require('/home/enignet/_...')
#8 /******/index.php(16): require('/home/enignet/_...')
--> PHP Fatal error: FATAL MySQL error 1054: Unknown column 's.orders_status_color_code' in 'field list' :: SELECT o.orders_id, o.customers_name, o.customers_id, o.date_purchased,
o.currency, o.currency_value, o.orders_status,
ot.text as order_total, ot.value as order_value,
s.orders_status_name, s.orders_status_color_code
FROM orders o
LEFT JOIN orders_total ot ON (o.orders_id = ot.orders_id AND ot.class = 'ot_total')
LEFT JOIN orders_status s ON (o.orders_status = s.orders_status_id AND s.language_id = 1)
ORDER BY o.orders_id DESC LIMIT 10 ==> (as called by) /******/includes/modules/dashboard_widgets/RecentOrdersDashboardWidget.php on line 37 <== in /includes/classes/db/mysql/query_factory.php on line 757.

[balihr]

Partial blank page and the following:

Oh! In that case, the following is wrong:

I would suggest installing all 3 modifications (dashboard + header + status color) for the best experience, but all 3 are packed separately in hopes of getting better feedback.

Status color modification is REQUIRED, header is optional. Make sure you visit Localization->Orders Status so it runs the required alter table command.
Whoops

[balihr]

Actually, no, not required anymore, just updated index_dashboard.php and RecentOrdersDashboardWidget.php so you don't NEED to add it, but it's recommended.

[OldNGrey]

Now getting Undefined variable $product in \admin\includes\modules\dashboard_widgets\RecentOrdersDashboardWidget.php on line 193.

[balihr]

Lack of coffee and copy/paste... Sorry about that.
Updated the zip file - RecentOrdersDashboardWidget.php now updated (and back to foreach instead of while)