Andrea Porotti

With Smart Admin Search you can quickly find contents in the WordPress dashboard without going up and down on the admin menu.
Just click on the top-right link or press a keyboard shortcut to open the search box, then type what you are looking for. Easy!
Currently Smart Admin Search can find:
<ul>
<li>admin menu items</li>
<li>posts</li>
<li>pages</li>
<li>users</li>
<li>media</li>
<li>custom post types contents</li>
</ul>
Configuration
Settings for the plugin are available on the Settings -> Smart Admin Search page.
Some things you can do in the settings page:
<ul>
<li>configure the keyboard shortcut to open the search box.</li>
<li>disable search functions you don’t need.</li>
<li>change layout of the search link on the admin bar</li>
</ul>
Permissions
The search box can be used by users of any role. Each user will get results available for the assigned role.
For pages and posts results, these actions will be triggered on result selection, according to the user permissions:
<ul>
<li>edit item</li>
<li>view item</li>
<li>show a message if no access to the item is allowed</li>
</ul>
Support
If you find any errors or compatibility issues with other plugins, please create a new topic in the support forum. Thanks!
Privacy
This plugin does not collect any user data. 
It does not set any cookies and it does not connect to any third-party services. 
All the plugin data is stored only on the WordPress database.

Smart Admin Search

This plugin adds a search engine to 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.

Smart Admin Search vs Widget Disable