Milan Dinić

This plugin automatically disables WordPress Events and News widget from the dashboard. By removing, you also prevent all external requests widgets makes so that it can work.
It is a very lightweight, it has no settings, just activate it and it works immediately.
And it’s on <a href="https://github.com/dimadin/disable-wordpress-events-and-news-dashboard-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget

Disable WordPress Events and News widget from the dashboard.

tammax

This plugin allows you to show at all or only in your dashboard, all plugins that you have write and updated on wordpress plugins directory.
You can watch how many downloads in every moment.
It is not realy necessary but i think it is usefull for all developer that want to see in real time this type of statistic.

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