This Plugin gives you the possibility to hide the Dashboard before selected users. 
It is very flexible, since it works with an extra capability “Hide Dashboard”. 
This capability can be assigned to one or more roles and/or as an extra capability to one or more users.
Users with hidden Dashboard will be redirected to their profile-page.
You need also the “<a href="http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/" title="Role Manager Plugin for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">Role Manager Plugin</a>” for this Plugin.

IWG Hide Dashboard

"Hide Dashboard" hides the dashboard for all users with the capability "hide_dashboard".

Danny Vink

Quickly add, edit, and remove your user’s custom meta fields in your Admin Panel simply by editing their profile.
<ul>
<li>Add new custom meta fields to your users</li>
<li>Edit already existing fields</li>
<li>Delete unwanted custom meta fields</li>
<li>Simple AJAX flow: never have to refresh the page.</li>
<li>For Developers: quick access to a user meta dump</li>
</ul>

User Profile Meta Manager

Easy to use and manage user meta (custom developed also).



Great tool for developers

Easily manage your user's custom meta fields right from your Admin Panel.

IWG Hide Dashboard vs User Profile Meta Manager