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Widget Disable

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Version: 3.0.1

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Description

This simple plugin allows you to disable any sidebar and dashboard widget for the current WordPress site you are on. It provides a simple user interface available to users with edit_theme_options capabilities (usually Administrator role) available under Appearance -> Disable Widgets.
After saving the settings, the sidebar and dashboard widgets are removed from and the user can’t see those widgets anymore.

Developer? Get to know the hooks

Have a look at the filters we provide:

  • wp_widget_disable_default_sidebar_widgets – Allows you to exclude certain sidebar widgets from being disabled.
  • wp_widget_disable_default_dashboard_widgets – Allows you to exclude certain dashboard widgets from being disabled.

Contributions

If you would like to contribute to this plugin, report an issue or anything like that, please note that we develop this plugin on GitHub.

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Manual Installation

  1. Upload the entire /wp-widget-disable directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate WP Widget Disable through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to Appearance -> Disable Widgets to manage sidebar and dashboard widgets.
  1. Disable the sidebar widgets you don’t need.

    Disable the sidebar widgets you don’t need.

  2. Even disable unused dashboard widgets.

    Even disable unused dashboard widgets.

  3. The simplified widgets overview.

    The simplified widgets overview.

  4. The stripped-down dashboard.

    The stripped-down dashboard.

Quick and easy fix to admin dashboard

By twohills on January 15, 2025

Admin dashboard was way too slow recently. Installed this and disabled widgets, found the culprit(s) quickly. Nice.

Thank you

By fightingships on April 24, 2023

Thank you, a wonderful plugin, you can't even imagine how happy I am that I found it

very useful

By Daniel (dhoffmann) on March 26, 2023

thank a lot.

so useful and nice plugin

By mikhak on February 11, 2023

thank you for this useful and nice plugin. H hope you continue and update that.

Amazing simple plugin

By clariable (clearcutmario) on October 7, 2022

I use this pretty much on all my sites, very easy way to get a small speed boost to the backend of the website. Thank you so much for the developer!

Awesome Plugin!!!

By hlw777 on July 11, 2022

Thanks for an awesome free plugin which speeds up my WP Admin a lot!!!

East, fast, works

By Mimi (immeemz) on February 8, 2021

Super easy way to speed up wp-admin by just disabling the useless dashboard widgets. A few clicks and my frustration level with the back end decreased 50%. Thanks!

Really Nice Job.

By José (guertzen) on July 18, 2020

Thank you very much.

Great Little Tool

By shirtguy72 on February 22, 2020

I only use 4 widgets and change them around all the time. Both my admin and widget areas are now clean and fast. Wonderful little bloat removal tool. Thanks!

Absolutely Works

By atomicnicholas on October 7, 2018

I tried several other plugins to disable the junk on my client's dashboard. For some reason, none of them worked, and older methods from Codex and even recent articles still didn't work. This plugin, however, DID. I actually came all the way here just to give this a five-star. Well done.

3.0.1 – 2024-09-19

  • Enhancement: Code cleanup, ensuring WordPress 6.6 compatibility.

3.0.0 – 2023-03-26

  • Fixed: Replace use of jQuery to avoid deprecation warnings.
  • Changed: Requires at least PHP 7.4 and WordPress 6.0.

2.1.0 – 2022-03-17

  • Enhancement: Hide disabled sidebar widgets when widget block editor is enabled.
  • Changed: Requires at least PHP 5.6 and WordPress 4.7.

2.0.0 – 2020-02-02

  • New: Allows removal of the “Browse Happy” and “PHP Update Required” widgets in the dashboard to suppress remote API requests.

1.9.1 – 2019-03-11

  • Enhancement: Cleanup and compatibility with WordPress 5.1.

1.9.0 – 2018-07-26

  • Enhancement: Added Multisite support.
  • Enhancement: Allows hiding the Try Gutenberg callout in WordPress 4.9.8.

For older versions see CHANGELOG.md.

  • Version:Version: 3.0.1
  • Active installs:Active installs: 20K
  • Last updated:Last updated: 10 months ago
  • Requires:Requires: 6.0
  • Tested:Tested: 6.7.2
Average rating:5 out of 5 stars.
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