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Dashboard Widgets Suite

Adds 9 awesome widgets to your WP Dashboard. Includes User Notes, Social Buttons, System Info, Debug/Error Logs, and more!

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Tested up to WordPress 7.2
Current version3.6
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.2
Minimum stackWP 4.7 · PHP 5.6.20
Directory statusactive
Last directory update1 Nov 20262h ago
Active installations4K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.9 / 5 from 38 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Dashboard Widgets Suite version 3.6 as active, updated 2h ago and tested up to WordPress 7.2.

Overview

About this plugin

1 Plugin. 9 Widgets. Awesome Dashboard.

Add new widgets to your WordPress Dashboard. Streamline your workflow and optimize productivity.

Widgets

Dashboard Widgets Suite provides awesome widgets that you can add to your Dashboard with a click:

  • Control Panel – Control widgets directly from the Dashboard
  • User Notes – Add, edit, delete notes for any user role
  • Feed Box – Display and customize any RSS Feed
  • Social Box – Display social links from Twitter, Facebook, etc.
  • List Box – Display custom lists created via the Menu screen
  • Widget Box – Display any theme or WP widget (e.g., Search, Text)
  • System Info – Display basic or advanced system information
  • Debug Log – Display, customize, reset your WP debug log
  • PHP Error Log – Display, customize, reset your server error log

Each widget includes its own set of options for customizing display 🙂

The notes widget is super awesome, designed for serious note takers. You can choose from 3 note formats: Text, HTML, or Code. Check out Installation for more about the User Notes Widget.

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Features

Dashboard Widgets Suite provides a slick set of useful Dashboard widgets with some great features:

  • Includes 9 awesome Dashboard widgets
  • Easy to set up and customize options
  • Regularly updated and “future proof”
  • Secure, clean, error-free code
  • Built with the WordPress API
  • Lightweight, fast and flexible
  • Focused on performance, loads only enabled widgets
  • Enable/disable widgets via Dashboard or plugin settings
  • Option to restore 1-column display for the Dashboard
  • Shortcodes to display widgets on the frontend
  • Many options for customizing widget display
  • Works perfectly with or without Gutenberg

Check out the Screenshots for more details.

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Privacy

This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.

Dashboard Widgets Suite is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.

Support development

I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:

  • The Tao of WordPress
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Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • dashboard
  • debug
  • log
  • notes
  • widget
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.2
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.7 · PHP 5.6.20
Update activity1 Nov 20262h ago

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Recent tracked changes

Version3.5.23.6
WordPress compatibility7.17.2
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