WordPress: Add Widget to Dashboard

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// Add a widget in WordPress Dashboard
function wpc_dashboard_widget_function() {
  // Entering the text between the quotes
  echo "<ul>
  <li>Release Date: March 2012</li>
  <li>Author: Aurelien Denis.</li>
  <li>Hosting provider: my own server</li>
  </ul>";
}
function wpc_add_dashboard_widgets() {
  wp_add_dashboard_widget('wp_dashboard_widget', 'Technical information', 'wpc_dashboard_widget_function');
}
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'wpc_add_dashboard_widgets' );