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Periscope – Custom Dashboard News Widget

Name: Periscope – Custom Dashboard News Widget
Author: Fernando Tellado

Merge several RSS feeds into one dashboard widget, sorted by date, and post your own announcements to your clients.

Periscope ranks #24,929 among WordPress.org plugins with 30+ active installations, is #3,041 of 8,848 in the Customization category, and was last updated Aug 18, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v1.1.2 Current Version v1.1.2

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 18 Aug, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.1.2
Last Updated: Aug 18, 2026
Requires WP: 6.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Fernando Tellado

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Periscope – Custom Dashboard News Widget

The default widget shows one feed. Periscope merges as many as you want into a single list ordered by date, so your agency blog, WordPress news and your client's industry sources appear together, newest first. It also validates each feed, tracks whether it still works, lets you cap how many items each one contributes and adds your own announcements on top.

Yes. In Settings > Periscope > Announcements you can create messages with a title, a short text with basic HTML, an optional link, an optional expiry date and a notice style. They are shown at the top of the widget, above the news.

Pinned ones first. Then the ones with an expiry date, the soonest to expire first, because they are the most time sensitive. Then the rest, in the order you created them.

It stops showing in the widget that same day, but it stays in the settings, flagged as expired. Nothing is deleted behind your back: you can change the date to bring it back, reuse the text for something else, or remove it yourself.

Yes. In the widget settings you can pick which roles see it. Leave every role unchecked to show it to everybody, which is the default. I unchecked "hide the default widget" and it is still gone Another plugin is probably hiding it too. DietPress, for example, hides the same widget by default from Settings > DietPress > Widgets. Periscope tells you when it detects this, and turning its own option off is not enough as long as the other plugin is hiding it.

Yes, there's an option in the settings to hide the default "WordPress Events and News" widget.

There's no hard limit. However, adding too many feeds may slow down your dashboard. We recommend 5-10 feeds maximum. Each feed URL is validated before it can be added.

By default, feeds are cached for 12 hours. You can change this in the settings (1-72 hours), and the Refresh button really refetches every feed instead of serving the cached copy.

Yes. Both the events and news sections have configurable footer links (2 per section) that you can customize in the settings page.

Yes. All default URLs (feeds, footer links) are wrapped in translation functions so each locale can point to their own resources.