Displays all registered dashboard widgets and enables to remove them individually for all or for selected roles (clients or other site contributors).
As of April 2026, Dashboard Widgets Control is a WordPress remove plugin with 10 active installations and a 3/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Hide/Remove Metadata.
Provides a new dashboard widget to display all registered dashboard widgets and enables to remove the other dashboard widgets individually
for all or selected roles (i.e. even from the screen options) in order to avoid irritation of your clients or other site contributors.
When checked indiviually, widgets will be highlighted for identification of unknown widget names.
The intention is to avoid confusion how to handle the screen options to not show or how to interpret unknown or uninteresting dashboard widget content.
This plugin is self explanatory and can be accessed through the admin dashboard.
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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