Dashboard Welcome for Elementor

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Dashboard Welcome for Elementor

by IdeaBox Creations

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Description

Dashboard Welcome by PowerPack Elements gives you full control over the WordPress welcome panel using Elementor. You can personalize the dashboard with content and design built with Elementor. You can add heading, contact information, form, video, images, affiliate links, etc.

PLUS, you can display a template as per the user role.

How this works?

  • Create a layout with Elementor.
  • Go to plugin settings and select the layout from dropdown for any user role.
  • Save the setting. Done!

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  1. Install Dashboard Welcome either via the WordPress plugin directory or by uploading the files to your server at wp-content/plugins.

  2. Activate the plugin.

  1. Admin Dashboard - Custom welcome panel

    Admin Dashboard - Custom welcome panel

  2. Plugin settings - Dashboard Welcome settings

    Plugin settings - Dashboard Welcome settings

What’s the requirement for using Dashboard Welcome?

You need Elementor plugin installed and activated for Dashboard Welcome to work.

Do I need coding experience to use Dashboard Welcome?

Not at all! All you need to know about Elementor.

2024 Update: It works!

By intotheforestdotus on January 5, 2024

I was very excited to discover this plugin, so when I tried to use it but the dashboard didn't change, I emailed their support. The reply I got was fast and clear.

The custom dashboard I designed with Elementor showed up as soon as I took their advice to "Please check and confirm if you have not enabled the hide option for the welcome page in the upper-screen option."

That solved the problem and my custom Elementor Dashboard is working! If you think this plugin isn't working, before troubleshooting, make sure you haven't unchecked the dashboard screen options Welcome box by mistake. Thank you so much for the help and this fantastic plugin!

Disappointing and Outdated: Dashboard Welcome for Elementor

By Mariano Cucinotta (superdiogene) on November 23, 2023

As an avid user of Elementor, I've been on the lookout for complementary solutions to enhance the user experience. Unfortunately, the "Dashboard Welcome for Elementor" plugin hasn't met my expectations.

The primary reason for my disappointment lies in the lack of updates for the plugin for quite some time. The absence of updates could potentially lead to security issues and compatibility problems with the latest versions of WordPress and Elementor. It's crucial for plugins to be regularly maintained to ensure optimal performance and security, and this lack of ongoing support from developers is concerning.

Moreover, a critical aspect of an Elementor plugin is its ability to seamlessly integrate with the graphical style and functionalities of the editor. Unfortunately, "Dashboard Welcome for Elementor" falls short in this regard. The absence of control over graphical styling through Elementor is a significant limitation as users seek uniformity and customization without resorting to additional code or alternative solutions.

I'm disappointed that a plugin that could have potentially enhanced the Elementor user experience has been left without updates and hasn't adequately addressed integration with the editor. Ultimately, I cannot currently recommend "Dashboard Welcome for Elementor" due to its lack of active support and essential functionalities for the Elementor user experience.

Great, good Job!

By mikguel on September 18, 2023

It is a very necessary functionality to customize, please continue to maintain it. Thanks!

Not working with current WP 6.3.1

By HeleneFG on August 30, 2023

Great idea! I downloaded the plugin - my slightly dyslexic brain read "Compatible up to WordPress 6.1.3" as 6.3.1, so I thought I was good to go. Spent some time creating a fabulous new Client Dashboard page for my client, but it's not showing up. Not sure what to do as it seems the author hasn't maintaining the plugin for WP updates. I hope this isn't the case, because I really like the idea very much as a client site handover tool, and would use it for all my clients' sites that I develop.

Amazing Plugin with some minor Caveats

By johndothejohndo on February 23, 2023

The plugin works great, some things to note though:

  • If you disable the welcome message in your dashboard, the created dashboard disappears (which makes sense, since it replaces the default welcome message from wordpress) but still important to keep in mind.
  • Using global colors/custom set colors and global fonts/custom set fonts will not work, you have to use hex colors and set the typography manually for the styles to work.
  • When the dashboards loads, images and text appear distorted at first. We "fixed" that in our case using a fade-in animation from animista.net

All in all pretty good plugin after adding some tweaks to the animation and styling of the dashboard.

Not working For me :/

By progyaghouti on March 5, 2022

I used this plugin well in previous versions of WordPress, but in version 5.9 of WordPress this plugin does not work

Styles no longer working properly

By jasonliv on November 16, 2021

I've used this plugin for a long time, and it never did really work properly, but the few problems weren't an issue. Now, however, I've added the plugin to my latest client site and the styling is all over the place. While I realise this is a free plugin, but if the styles don't work in the actual dashboard, then it's not really worth having. On the up side, if you're only providing text/images and no buttons, it's ok. Honestly, I'd pay a proper license for this if it worked, but as it stands I'm afraid I will have to delete it from the sites.

Styles in the plugin crash

By niperblaster on September 10, 2021

Styles in the plugin crash, and support never responded to this.

Works precisely as specified!

By ibowden on September 6, 2021

I've used this plugin for a couple of years and found it to be reliable and flawless. Perhaps the recent negative reviews are indicative of people with too-high expectations or a desire to take this plugin beyond its capabilities. If you don't want to have to customize the dashboard menus, then this plugin will provide all of the necessary functionality to create and embed an Elementor template page that will do most anything that such a page can do.

ZERO support

By satraptech on August 5, 2021

You spend some time and create a beautiful dashboard in Elementor, then you go to your WordPress dashboard set the new template as Dashboard only to find out that all the styling work you had done was for nothing, the plugin simply doesn't load the Elemntor styling for the template. Some have addressed this issue in the support forum 9 months ago and ZERO response from the developer nor has the issue been fixed.

1.0.8 – March 7, 2024

  • Security update

1.0.7 – December 14, 2022

  • Security update

1.0.6 – February 9, 2022

  • Fixed compatibility issues with WordPress 5.9

1.0.5 – April 20, 2020

  • Tested compatibility with latest versions of WP and Elementor
  • Added logic for usage analytics

1.0.4 – August 28, 2018

  • Fix: PHP error on plugin page when Elementor is not active in multisite network

1.0.3 – August 17, 2018

  • Enhancement: Added an option in main site to hide DWE settings from subsites in multisite enviornment
  • Fix: Templates data was not available on subsites in multisite environment
  • Fix: Minor CSS issues

1.0.2 – August 3, 2018

  • Fix: PHP fatal error on multisite environment

1.0.1 – July 24, 2018

  • Fix: Scroll bar issue
  • Fix: Empty widget was showing when template is not selected for different user roles

1.0.0 – July 17, 2018

  • Initial Release
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