As of April 2026, Phototools: Basics is a WordPress dashboard plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Admin Menu Editor.
0/5Rating
0active installs
1.2K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
Phototools replaces the default activity widget on the dashboard by three separate widgets with thumbnails.
It’s mend to use with the other “phototools” plugins like geo2wp, exifwidget etc.
The “published recent” and “publishing soon” also have links too view the post and to the edit screen.
The “Recent comments” shows the thumbnail of the parent post.
the number of items in the list is settable between 1 and 30.
Besides this it implements a few extra’s:
- turn on/off support for shortcodes in widgets, supporting the shortcodes in the other phototools plugins
- turn on/off a general taxonomy “photogroup” to group photo’s in any groups you like
- Fuzzy dates on/off. Makes the postdates in the activity widgets more …
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 5.2.24 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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Changelog
1.0
- First release
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