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carlcs/craft-diywidget
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Do It Yourself widget for Craft CMS

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Do It Yourself widget for Craft CMS
===================================

[](#do-it-yourself-widget-for-craft-cms)

A super easy way to create your own dashboard widgets for the Control Panel.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Do It Yourself widget is available in the Plugin Store. You can also install the plugin manually from the command line with the following commands.

```
composer require carlcs/craft-diywidget
php craft plugin/install diy-widget

```

Getting Started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

It is super easy to build your own widgets using this plugin. All you need to do is to create a new folder called `diy-widget` inside of your config folder and add Twig templates to it.

You can create new widgets using Twig/HTML, by creating a `widget-name.html` file.

These templates will now be available to add to your dashboard. To give the widget an icon, upload a `widget-name.svg` file. If you need custom CSS or some Javascript, just upload it into that folder as well and they will be included automatically.

If you don’t feel like crafting, just have a play with the example template files provided with the plugin. Copy the files from [`_examples/diy-widget/`](_examples/diy-widget) into your `config/diy-widget/` folder.

License
-------

[](#license)

[MIT](LICENSE.md)

###  Health Score

43

—

FairBetter than 91% of packages

Maintenance37

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity38

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~232 days

Total

14

Last Release

570d ago

Major Versions

v1.2.1 → 2.0.02018-05-29

2.1.0 → 3.0.x-dev2022-04-14

3.0.0 → 4.0.02024-02-08

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7516543?v=4)[carlcs](/maintainers/carlcs)[@carlcs](https://github.com/carlcs)

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Top Contributors

[![carlcs](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7516543?v=4)](https://github.com/carlcs "carlcs (50 commits)")[![meyerweb](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/939727?v=4)](https://github.com/meyerweb "meyerweb (1 commits)")

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Tags

craft-plugincraftcmswidgetdiycraftcms

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