Clean up the dashboard

Simply, easily remove the default WordPress dashboard widgets

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WordPress Blog WidgetFrustrated by WordPress Blog Posts and other WordPress News feeding into your users dashboards?

These items are often unnecessary, can be confusing for new members of your network and don’t help promote your network.

Why should you be stuck with the default WordPress Blog and Other WordPress News widgets provided by WordPress?

This is exactly why we created this simple plugin.

Simply drop into plugins and these default WordPress widgets are removed from your users dashboards.

Removing the default WordPress Blog and Other WordPress News widgets from users dashboards

Now you control what they see, not WordPress!

And while you’re at it — why not feed in your content using our Custom Content Dashboard Widget plugin. The ulimate plugin to completely control the content your users have on their dashboard!

Want more?

Check out our complete series of Rebranding WordPress Multisite pack — for removing all WordPress branding including links to support & the codex, browse happy buttons and footer text.

Enjoy!

 

Usage

To install:

1.  Download the plugin file
2.  Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
3.  Upload the remove-wp-dashboard-widgets plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
4.  Login to your admin panel for WordPress or Multisite and activate the plugin:

  • For WordPress Multisite installs – visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate the plugin.
  • On regular WordPress installs – visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.

Note: If you have an older versions of the plugins installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete them.

To Use:

That’s it! No configuration necessary!

Once you’ve activated the plugin the default WordPress Blog and Other WordPress News widgets are removed from your user’s dashboard.

Changing from this:

Default WordPress dashboard

To this:

Dashboard after WordPress Blog and Other WordPress News widgets have been removed


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