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Your dashboard is the first thing most WordPress admins see when they log in to a website – why not add a space for them to see news stories from their favorite publications? With the Dashboard Feeds Dashboard Widget – you can do just that. Easily add and manage different RSS feeds right from your dashboard.

Dashboard Feeds Dashboard Widget

Display RSS feeds from your favorite publications in a widget on the Wordpress dashboard.

Pascal Birchler

Dominik Schilling

required

Ulrich

Silvan Hagen

Stefan Pasch

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 <code>edit_theme_options</code> 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:
<ul>
<li><code>wp_widget_disable_default_sidebar_widgets</code> – Allows you to exclude certain sidebar widgets from being disabled.</li>
<li><code>wp_widget_disable_default_dashboard_widgets</code> – Allows you to exclude certain dashboard widgets from being disabled.</li>
</ul>
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 <a href="https://github.com/wearerequired/WP-Widget-Disable" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.
Developed by <a href="https://required.com/" title="Team of experienced web professionals from Switzerland & Germany" rel="nofollow ugc">required</a>

Widget Disable

I've been getting annoyance on the growing amount of default widgets (I'm looking at you JetPack) but didn't realize there was an easy way to get rid of them till someone linked this in one of the WP FB groups.

Removed 27 of them. Dang, I think that's pretty invasive!

Thanks for making this possible.

Wow, didn't realize how much I needed this

Disable sidebar and dashboard widgets with an easy to use interface.

Dashboard Feeds Dashboard Widget vs Widget Disable