Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard for WordPress Plugin Directory
Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard is a WordPress app, with a 4.6 average rating from 114 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by David Vongries. With a rating of 4.6★ from 114 reviews.
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Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard is a highly rated WordPress app with a growing review traction. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 114 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.6★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by David Vongries — established developer track record
Cons
- −No declared third-party integrations on the listing — verify compatibility with your existing tools before installing
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How Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard works
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The #1 Plugin to Customize the WordPress Dashboard! Ultimate Dashboard allows you to create a custom WordPress dashboard for you and your clients.
Replace the default WordPress dashboard widgets with your own and give the WordPress dashboard a more meaningful use.
Ultimate Dashboard is a clean & lightweight plugin that was made to optimize the user experience for clients inside the WordPress admin area.
Customize the WordPress Dashboard today!
❌ Remove dashboard widgets Remove all or individual default WordPress widgets with just a click.
➕ Create your own widgets Create icon, text & HTML widgets to create a customized client dashboard and send your customer to the key areas of their website – or anywhere else!
🎨 Login Customizer White label the WordPress login area. Completely customize the WordPress login screen & apply your own branding with the power & live-preview capabilities of the WordPress customizer.
↔️ Login Redirect The Login Redirect featur allows you to change the WordPress login URL, hide the /wp-admin/ URL for non logged-in users and redirect users after login on a per-role basis.
🖌️ Add Custom CSS
Add custom CSS to only the WordPress dashboard
Add custom CSS to the entire WordPress admin area
Add custom CSS to the WordPress login screen with a live preview inside the WordPress customizer
📋 Create Custom Admin Pages Create custom Top-Level & Sub-Menu pages using HTML, CSS or the default WordPress WISIWYG Editor and add them anywhere to the WordPress admin menu.
✨ More Features
Change the WordPress welcome panel content
Change the WordPress “Howdy” text
Set a custom WordPress dashboard headline
Remove WordPress admin bar for specific user roles
Remove “Help” tab
Remove “Screen Options” tab
Customize the WordPress footer & version text
Export/import dashboard widgets & settings
For even more features, check out Ultimate Dashboard PRO.
🏆 Ultimate Dashboard PRO
Remove 3rd party widgets
Restrict dashboard widgets & admin pages to specific users or user roles
Fully white label & rebrand WordPress
Advanced Login Customizer features
Create Custom Admin Pages with Elementor, Beaver Builder & Brizy
Create video widgets
Create contact form widgets
WordPress multisite support
Dark Mode
Admin Menu Editor
Admin Bar Editor
Learn more about Ultimate Dashboard PRO
What’s next? If you like Ultimate Dashboard, make sure to check out our other products:
Page Builder Framework – A fast & minimalistic WordPress theme designed for the new WordPress era.
Better Admin Bar – The plugin to make your clients enjoy WordPress. It replaces the default admin bar to provide the best possible user experience when editing & navigating a website.
Keyword rankings
Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard ranks for 6 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 3:
- Rank #111
- Rank #271
- Rank #524
Competitors & alternatives
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What is Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard?
Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.6-star rating from 114 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by David Vongries.