Title: WP Dashboard Cleaner
Author: gr8nilay
Published: <strong>July 11, 2017</strong>
Last modified: February 10, 2024

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# WP Dashboard Cleaner

 By [gr8nilay](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gr8nilay/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-dashboard-cleaner.zip)

 * [Details](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dashboard-cleaner/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dashboard-cleaner/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dashboard-cleaner/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dashboard-cleaner/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-dashboard-cleaner/)

## Description

The Admin can remove unwanted widgets from your WordPress Dashboard

Using this plugin you can remove below mentioned WordPress’s default dashboard widgets

 * At a Glance
 * Activity
 * WordPress Events & News
 * Quick Draft

Moreover, this plugin allow admin to remove the dashboard widgets created by some
popular plugins like Wordfence, Yoast SEO, Broken Link Checker, WooCommerce and 
Gravity Forms.

 * Yoast SEO Posts Overview
 * Gravity Forms
 * Wordfence activity
 * Broken Link Checker
 * WooCommerce Status
 * WooCommerce Recent Reviews

## Installation

 1. Extract the zip file into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory or upload through
    wordpress back end
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go to Dashboard -> WP Head Optimizer
 4. Remove / Disable the extra added links or ulrs or scripts from WordPress default
 5. You are done. Enjoy Plugin!

## FAQ

If you have any question do let me know on gr8nilay@gmail.com

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Awesome!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/awesome-5724/)󠁿

 [Dswt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nilaydswt/) May 28, 2018

Nice one..!! Easy to remove unwanted common widgets from dashboard.

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-dashboard-cleaner/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Dashboard Cleaner” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ gr8nilay ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gr8nilay/)

[Translate “WP Dashboard Cleaner” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-dashboard-cleaner)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-dashboard-cleaner/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-dashboard-cleaner/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-dashboard-cleaner/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-dashboard-cleaner/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First release of plugin

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **60+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.4.8**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dashboard-cleaner/)
 * Tags
 * [cleaner](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cleaner/)[dashboard widgets](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard-widgets/)
   [widgets](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dashboard-cleaner/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  1 5-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-dashboard-cleaner/reviews/?filter=5)
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## Contributors

 *   [ gr8nilay ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gr8nilay/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-dashboard-cleaner/)

## Donate

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