holding off on dashboard for now, let's try 0.9.2

classes/WDTSTranscript.inc

@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ class WDTSTranscriptManager {
     }
     return array_keys($languages);
   }
+
+  function count() {
+    return count($this->get_transcripts());
+  }
 }
 
 ?>

classes/WhatDidTheySayAdmin.inc

@@ -335,6 +335,14 @@ class WhatDidTheySayAdmin {
     }
 
     if (current_user_can('approve_transcriptions')) {
+      // edit posts notification
+      add_filter('manage_posts_columns', array(&$this, 'manage_posts_columns'));
+      add_action('manage_posts_custom_column', array(&$this, 'manage_posts_custom_column'), 10, 2);
+
+      // dashboard widget
+      //wp_add_dashboard_widget('dashboard_transcripts', __('Recent Queued Transcripts', 'what-did-they-say'), array(&$this, 'dashboard_transcripts'));
+      //add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', array(&$this, 'add_dashboard_transcripts'));
+
       if (strpos($pagenow, "post") === 0) {
         add_meta_box(
           'manage-transcriptions',
@@ -371,6 +379,34 @@ class WhatDidTheySayAdmin {
     return $content . ob_get_clean();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * The edit posts column header.
+   */
+  function manage_posts_columns($columns) {
+    $keys = array_keys($columns);
+    $values = array_values($columns);
+    
+    $index = array_search('comments', $keys);
+    if ($index === false) { $index = count($keys); }
+
+    array_splice($keys, $index, 0, array('transcripts'));
+    array_splice($values, $index, 0, __('Trans'));
+
+    return array_combine($keys, $values);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The edit posts column. Needs a pretty icon.
+   */
+  function manage_posts_custom_column($name, $post_id) {
+    if ($name === "transcripts") {
+      $queued_transcript_object = new WDTSQueuedTranscript($post_id);
+
+      if (($queued_count = $queued_transcript_object->count()) > 0) {
+        printf(__('%s queued', 'what-did-they-say'), $queued_count);
+      }
+    }
+  }
 
   /** Transcript Search Filters **/
 

readme.txt

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Donate link: http://www.coswellproductions.com/wordpress/wordpress-plugins
 Tags: admin, comics, webcomics, transcript, video, audio
 Requires at least: 2.8
 Tested up to: 2.8.4
-Stable tag: 0.9.1
+Stable tag: 0.9.2
 
 What Did They Say?!? lets your users provide multilingual transcriptions to your media, in their language, quickly and securely.
 
@@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ Transcripts can be in one of two states: **queued** and **approved**. Users can
 * Users who can approve transcripts can also directly edit the approved transcripts.
 * If a user submits a transcript to the queue, they can delete it before it's approved.
 
-Permissions are handed out based on role and is set under the *Capabilities* tab.
+Permissions are handed out in two ways and are set under the *Capabilities* tab.
+
+* Based on role (Subscriber, Administrator, etc.)
+* Per user
 
 = How do short codes work? =
 
@@ -88,6 +91,10 @@ Thanks to @mindfaucet, @Frumph, and @ChibiJen for early testing and bug reportin
 
 == Changelog ==
 
+= 0.9.2 =
+* JavaScript bugfixes.
+* Per-user permissions.
+* Visual feedback for number of queued transcripts per post.
 = 0.9.1 =
 * Bugfixes for transcript submission and theme editor global variable name collision.
 * Improved transcript submission feedback.

what-did-they-say.php

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Plugin Name: What Did They Say?!?
 Plugin URI: http://www.coswellproductions.com/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/
 Description: Manage and display text transcriptions of comics, videos, or other media.
-Version: 0.9.1
+Version: 0.9.2
 Author: John Bintz
 Author URI: http://www.coswellproductions.com/wordpress/
 Text Domain: what-did-they-say
@@ -217,8 +217,7 @@ function the_media_transcript_queue_editor() {
         <span id="wdts-opener-<?php echo $id = md5(rand()) ?>">[
           <a href="#"><?php _e('Edit/Add Transcripts', 'what-did-they-say') ?></a>
           <?php if (current_user_can('approve_transcriptions')) {
-            $queued_count = count($queued_transcript_object->get_transcripts());
-            if ($queued_count > 0) { ?>
+            if (($queued_count = $queued_transcript_object->count()) > 0) { ?>
               (<strong><?php printf(__('%d queued', 'what-did-they-say'), $queued_count) ?></strong>)
             <?php } 
           } ?>