Dashboard Detox – Hide Marketing & Review Popups

Your WordPress dashboard shouldn’t feel like Times Square.

Dashboard Detox removes the noise — stopping marketing messages, “rate this plugin” nags, upgrade prompts, sales banners, Black Friday ads, and countless popup notices that keep interrupting your workflow.

It works automatically, with no setup needed, and includes a lightweight optional settings page for power users.

Perfect for developers, agencies, and anyone who wants wp-admin to stay clean and distraction-free.

✨ Features

• Automatically hides:

  • Review nags (“Please rate us 5 stars!”)
  • Upgrade / Go Pro messages
  • Sales, discount and Black Friday banners
  • Newsletter signup popups
  • Promotional overlays
  • Persistent admin notices that reappear when closed

• Smart and safe:

  • Attempts to avoid hiding core update or security notices
  • Uses keyword detection instead of blindly removing all notices
  • Lightweight inline script only
  • No front-end impact
  • No performance overhead

No setup required. Just activate and detox your dashboard.

Need more control? Dashboard Detox Pro

The free version gives you a clean, quiet dashboard with zero configuration.
If you’d like more fine-grained control, Dashboard Detox Pro adds a few extra tools:

• Add custom “blocked keywords” to hide specific promos or campaigns.
• Whitelist important notices by keyword so they are never hidden.
• Turn on Debug Mode to highlight notices that would be hidden, instead of actually hiding them.
• Ideal for agencies and developers managing lots of client sites.

Free vs Pro

Free version

• Automatically hides most common marketing, upsell, and review nags in the WordPress admin.
• Lightweight, safe defaults — just activate and enjoy a calmer dashboard.
• No configuration required.

Dashboard Detox Pro

• Includes everything in the free version, plus:
• Custom “blocked keywords” to target specific marketing phrases (e.g. “Black Friday”, “lifetime deal”).
• Whitelist keywords to always show important notices.
• Debug Mode to see what would be hidden without actually hiding it.
• Priority for future enhancements.

👉 Get Dashboard Detox Pro

1. Upload the plugin files to /wp-content/plugins/dl-dashboard-detox,
   or install via Plugins → Add New → “Dashboard Detox”.
2. Activate the plugin.
3. Enjoy a calmer wp-admin.

1. 

   Before: a dashboard full of promotional banners.

2. 

   After: a clean, silent Dashboard Detox experience.

3. 

1.0.4 – 2025-11-26

• Added a simple settings screen in the free version to explain available Pro features.
• Clarified the upgrade path to Dashboard Detox Pro directly from the plugin settings.
• No changes to core notice-hiding behaviour.

1.0.3

• Improved standards compliance by switching to proper asset enqueueing for both CSS and JavaScript, using WordPress API functions.
• Replaced inline <style> injection with registered and enqueued admin styles, including inline CSS.
• Updated Author URI to a dedicated, lightweight plugin landing page for improved reliability.
• Minor internal refactoring and cleanup.

1.0.2

• Added stronger, more aggressive hiding logic to fully remove marketing popups, overlays, banners and review nags from both layout and interaction flow.
• Refined pre-hide behaviour to ensure zero layout shift during page load.

1.0.1

• Improved notice handling to fully remove hidden popups from layout.
• Added stronger .dl-dashboard-detox-hidden class to prevent ghost overlays, click-blocking, and leftover spacing.
• Updated JS logic to rely on the new class instead of inline styles.
• Ensures hidden elements no longer intercept clicks or affect admin page layout.

1.0.0

• Initial public release.
• Automatically hides common marketing, review and upsell notices.
• Avoids core and security-related notifications.
• Lightweight inline script, zero configuration needed.