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Clean Dashboard Pro

Clear the clutter from the WordPress dashboard

Remove the news feeds, plugin promos and widgets nobody reads from the dashboard, one by one or all at once.

Get Pro from $29/year or read the Clean Dashboard docs

Included in every Pro plan, alongside all the other modules.

included in every Pro plan
Pro
settings to configure
2
developer hooks
2
last improved in
3.1.0
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Why you need Clean Dashboard

Every plugin seems to add a dashboard widget. Clients log in to a wall of upsells and WordPress news instead of anything useful.

What Clean Dashboard does

  • Pick widgets to hide Choose from every registered dashboard widget, including ones added by plugins.
  • Or hide them all One switch disables every dashboard widget.

What you can configure

2 settings, all included with Pro.

  • Disable All Widgets Disable all dashboard widgets.
  • Dashboard Widgets Select the widgets you want to disable.

Where Clean Dashboard helps

  • A photographer in her studio with WP Extended open on a desktop monitor

    Client handover

    A calm, empty dashboard instead of plugin adverts.

  • A freelance web designer on a sofa with WP Extended open on her laptop, her dog asleep beside her

    Editors

    Fewer distractions for people who only write content.

For developers

Clean Dashboard has 2 hooks for changing its behaviour per project, without editing the plugin.

All Clean Dashboard hooks
filter functions.php or a Code Snippet
add_filter( 'wpextended/clean-dashboard/dashboard_widgets', function ( $value ) {
    // Return the value you want to use
    return $value;
} );
  • clean-dashboard/dashboard_widgets
  • clean-dashboard/widgets_list

Recent changes

The latest updates to Clean Dashboard, from the WP Extended changelog.

Full changelog
  1. v3.1.0 22 Sept 2025
    • new

      Toggle to disable all widgets.

Clean Dashboard questions

Clean Dashboard documentation

No. It is part of WP Extended Pro.

Yes. Choose the widgets to disable and leave the rest.

Pairs well with

All Admin Tools

Get Clean Dashboard with WP Extended Pro

Every Pro plan includes Clean Dashboard and the rest of the toolkit, with updates and support.

Download free See Pro pricing

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