Steven

WordPress comes with widgets, themes comes widgets and it seems like every other plugins has its own widgets too. But how many of these do you actually use? If you’re like me, only a handful. The rest simply clutter up the Widgets admin page making it more difficult to manage. This plugin does one thing and does it well. It allows you to disable the widgets you’re not using.
Usage is very simple and straight forward. Go to the Settings : Disable Widgets admin page, add a check mark to each widget you wish to disable and click the <code>Update Settings</code> button. That’s it, nothing more to it.
<h4>CREDIT</h4>
Original plugin by <a href="http://zaantar.eu/" rel="nofollow ugc">Zaantar</a>.

Disable Widgets

This helps you clean up the clutter when looking at your available widgets. Just show what you want to use or support.
I was deciding whether to move my own disable widgets utility out to a plugin when I searched and found this. It does a better job.
Here are some scenarios I went through:
* It manages all widgets, not just core Wordpress widgets.
* Disable a widget and it remembers so you can come back to re-enable.
* Deactivate the same widget at it's source, a plugin, and it disappears from this list.
* Reactivate at it's source and it not only reappears in this list, but this plugin remembers that it was disabled.
All is good. Why would I want to maintain my own plugin now?



Does one thing and does it well, agreed!

Of course I think this is a five start plugin!



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Pascal Birchler

Dominik Schilling

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Ulrich

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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.

Disable Widgets vs Widget Disable