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Widget Disable

Description

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 edit_theme_options capabilities (usually Administrator role) available under Appearance -> Disable Widgets.
After saving the settings, the sidebar and dashboard widgets are removed from and the user canโ€™t see those widgets anymore.

Developer? Get to know the hooks

Have a look at the filters we provide:

  • wp_widget_disable_default_sidebar_widgets โ€“ Allows you to exclude certain sidebar widgets from being disabled.
  • wp_widget_disable_default_dashboard_widgets โ€“ Allows you to exclude certain dashboard widgets from being disabled.

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 GitHub.

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Installation

Manual Installation

  1. Upload the entire /wp-widget-disable directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate WP Widget Disable through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to Appearance -> Disable Widgets to manage sidebar and dashboard widgets.

Reviews

Does the job right and removes the pesky and somewhat useless widgets from the admin dashboard for all users.
I tried this plugin to disable the widget section on the storefront theme. But unfortunately it doesnt work.
Admin dashboard was way too slow recently. Installed this and disabled widgets, found the culprit(s) quickly. Nice.
Thank you, a wonderful plugin, you canโ€™t even imagine how happy I am that I found it
thank you for this useful and nice plugin. H hope you continue and update that.
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Contributors & Developers

โ€œWidget Disableโ€ is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

3.0.1 โ€“ 2024-09-19

  • Enhancement: Code cleanup, ensuring WordPress 6.6 compatibility.

3.0.0 โ€“ 2023-03-26

  • Fixed: Replace use of jQuery to avoid deprecation warnings.
  • Changed: Requires at least PHP 7.4 and WordPress 6.0.

2.1.0 โ€“ 2022-03-17

  • Enhancement: Hide disabled sidebar widgets when widget block editor is enabled.
  • Changed: Requires at least PHP 5.6 and WordPress 4.7.

2.0.0 โ€“ 2020-02-02

  • New: Allows removal of the โ€œBrowse Happyโ€ and โ€œPHP Update Requiredโ€ widgets in the dashboard to suppress remote API requests.

1.9.1 โ€“ 2019-03-11

  • Enhancement: Cleanup and compatibility with WordPress 5.1.

1.9.0 โ€“ 2018-07-26

  • Enhancement: Added Multisite support.
  • Enhancement: Allows hiding the Try Gutenberg callout in WordPress 4.9.8.

For older versions see CHANGELOG.md.

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