Dashboard Commander
Command your admin dashboard. Manage built-in widgets and dynamically registered widgets. Hide widgets depending upon user capabilities.
4.8(8 reviews)
·900 active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Dashboard Commander is a WordPress admin plugin with 900 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 34K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 29% this week. Top alternative: Loginizer.
4.8/58 reviews
900active installs
34K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Command your admin dashboard. Manage built-in widgets (Right Now, Recent Comments, etc.) and dynamically registered widgets (Google Analytics Summary, WP E-Commerce Dashboard, etc.). Hide widgets depending upon user capabilities.
This plugin is based upon Dave Kinkead’s Dashboard Heaven plugin and extends it to support dynamically registered widgets, such as dashboard widgets that are added by a plugin.
After installation access to all dashboard widgets is removed, then you can use the options at Settings > Dashboard Commander to configure the minimum access level for each widget.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Nice
by Dima Stefantsov·8 years ago
Does what I need it to. Perfect.
Perfect!
by WP-Henne·10 years ago
Works with Dashboard Sticky Notes, Drafts & Pending Reviews and Dashboard Sticky Notes.
WP Dashboard Notes works as well.
Thanks!
It does what it says
by Lenin Zapata ☄·10 years ago
I can easily configure desktop wordpress with this, it is highly recommended.
Works!
by arniarni·10 years ago
Thank you! Useful plugin for admin notes.
Great functionality
by Greenweb·11 years ago
Good Job, I have it running on my download shop http://www.beforesite.com/ because plugins like Bruteprotect ( while wonderful ) display scary looking stats to my customers in the dashboard. Well done Josh, if I run into you at a WordCamp drinks on me mate!
Download Trends
Today: 12Yesterday: 4This week: 31Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.9.2+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0.3
- Update for WordPress 3.8
Contributors
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