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.

Rami Yushuvaev

GenerateWP

This simple, but useful, plugin adds a widget to your WordPress dashboard, displaying a list of site information. Showing the site name, tagline, site URL, admin URL, admin language, text direction, WordPress version and PHP version.
It’s very handy if you want to see your site general information in one place – your sites dashboard.
<h4>More info</h4>
To read how this plugin was developed, including code examples and screenshots, visit: https://GenerateWP.com/introducing-dashboard-widgets-generator/
You can find the plugin source code in here:
<ul>
<li>https://GenerateWP.com/snippet/nvl3vxg/</li>
<li>https://GenerateWP.com/snippet/2VvAap6/</li>
</ul>
And you can ask for more features using the original post comments area.

Site Info

WordPress dashboard widget displaying the main site info.

Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget vs Site Info