Dashboard Widget

Scotty adds a compact widget to your WordPress admin Dashboard showing a quick overview of your site’s data.

What It Shows

The widget displays five stacked progress bars summarizing your site:

• Posts Status — distribution across Published, Draft, Trash, Auto-Draft, etc.
• Post Types — breakdown by post type (Post, Page, Attachment, custom types)
• Comments — distribution by approval status (Approved, Spam, Trash, Unapproved)
• Users — count by role (Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Subscriber)
• Options — ratio of transient options vs regular options

Each bar includes tooltips with exact counts per category.

Quick Info Footer

Below the progress bars, the widget shows:

• Database Size — total size of your WordPress database
• Scheduled Cron Jobs — total number of scheduled cron events

Actions

• Refresh — reload all widget data
• Open Scotty — navigate directly to the Scotty Overview dashboard

Technical Details

The widget loads asynchronously and shows a skeleton placeholder while data is loading. If an error occurs, an alert message is displayed instead.

The widget appears automatically on the WordPress Dashboard after activating Scotty. You can reposition or hide it using the Screen Options panel at the top of the Dashboard page.