Dashboard Widgets Suite vs Slash Admin

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. Suggest a widget! 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. Suggest a feature! 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 Digging into WordPress .htaccess made easy WordPress Themes In Depth Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins: BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress REST Pro Tools – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂

Slash Admin gathers some common functions that you probably need in most of your websites. The plugin lets you change various different options in a WordPress website, keeps them active even if you switch your theme and helps you create a friendlier Admin Panel for you and your editors. If you are lost with the many options, here’s a presentation of the plugin’s best features. Features Frontend Option to point to a static splash page. Option to convert email addresses characters to HTML entities to block spam bots. Show EU Cookie Law consent message (check screenshots about available options). Since v.3.0 it also supports WPML for different message per language. Add a “Loading” animation which hides itself when the page is fully loaded Enqueue your own Google Web Fonts, with option to load it locally for better performance and privacy Get rid of the word “Category:” in front of the Archive title (usually needed if your theme uses the_archive_title()). Add excerpt support to pages. Enable the use of shortcodes in widgets. Display a warning for users of old versions of Internet Explorer (IE8 or older). Yes, sadly there are still people who use Internet Explorer 8… Administration Insert Google Analytics tracking code (so as you don’t have to remember re-entering it in case you switch themes in the future) Hide Site Health from everyone except from a selected Admin (read more) Hide ACF options from everyone except from the selected Admin Since WordPress 5.2 there is a built-in feature that detects when a plugin or theme causes a fatal error on your site, and notifies you with this automated email. By default, it will be sent to the admin email. Slash Admin allows you to override it (you can also add multiple recipients if you like). Read more Change the address that receives the Plugin and Theme auto-update email notifications Make WordPress respect the order of the tags you insert in a post (read more) Limit the number of revisions that WordPress keeps for each post (keeps the database cleaner) Prevent Post Updates and Deletion After a Set Period. Useful if you have many editors or in cases where an editor’s account is compromised, adding spam code to the posts (by disallowing editing of older posts you limit the damage) Enable Jetpack development mode Move Jetpack share and like buttons Maintenance mode. If checked, non-Admins will not be able to acess the WordPress backend and they will see a customizable message instead. Useful if you want to perform some maintenance work to your website and you don’t want your Editors to add or modify the content before you finish. Admins are not affected and they can always login as usual. Login screen Add your custom logo at the WordPress log-in screen Make the login screen logo (custom or default) linking to your website’s homepage instead of wordpress.org After login, redirect users at the homepage instead of their profile page Disable the Admin Bar for all users except Administrators. Applies only to the front-end. It’s useful if you want your site to be visible only to logged-in users (e.g. during developement phase), but you don’t want them to access the dashboard or get confused with the admin bar Add your custom CSS to the login screen to completely change its appearance Non-admins Hide unnecessary options from the Admin menu for non admins (so editors won’t get overwhelmed with options that have no meaning for the current website). Disable tags and categories Hide specific pages from non admins. For example, you might not want your editors to have access to the static frontpage, the blog page or pages that you use as page templates. Allow editors to manage Menus and Widgets and access some other appearance settings previously acessible only to admins (for example, you might want to give your client the option to modify the website’s menu, but you would rather avoid making him/her an administrator). Hide notices about updating WordPress and other plugins for all users except from Admins (sometimes clients get confused with those notices and think that there is something wrong with the website). White label backend Change the “Howdy” message at the top right corner of the admin (both backend and logged-in frontend) Change the default footer text at the admin Replace the WordPress logo at the top left corner of the admin bar with your own (both backend and logged-in frontend) Replace the default Welcome message at the Dashboard with your own Add a Dashboard Widget to provide general or commercial information to your clients (for example: your contact info or links to support documentation) Add your own custom CSS for the Admin area Performance Disable Emojis Disable wp-embed script from the frontend or load it conditionally DNS prefetching notifies the client that there are assets we’ll need later from a specific URL (outside our website’s domain) so the browser can resolve the DNS as quickly as possible. Link prefetching and prerendering. Link prefetching is a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. A web page provides a set of prefetching hints to the browser, and after the browser is finished loading the page, it begins silently prefetching specified documents and stores them in its cache. When the user visits one of the prefetched documents, it can be served up quickly out of the browser’s cache. Prerendering downloads and renders the entire page and hides it from the user until it is requested, therefore, it should be used with caution. Shortcodes If you manually include email addresses in your posts, you should consider disguising them in order to “fool” e-mail harvesters (check FAQ for details). Show a telephone number in a way that it is clickable. When clicked, if you are on a mobile device it opens the phone’s dialer and if you are on a desktop computer it prompts to make a call via a related program (e.g. Skype). If you develop your site on localhost or on a temporary URL, you might want to avoid absolute URLs inside posts and pages. That way you don’t need to update your links after migrating to your actual domain (check FAQ for details). Development functions Using slash_dump() instead of var_dump() will wrap the output in tags, for better readability. slash_admin_dump() does the same thing, only this time the output is only visible to admins (can be handy if you want to debug a live site). Show warnings if the site is on air and debug mode is still on and if the site is on localhost and debug mode is off. Also, show warning if the website is on air and you have chosen to hide it from Search Engines. Notifications Slash Admin displays the following notifications: A list with the users who logged in during the past 15 minutes (except from you, obviously) A warning when debug mode is enabled (you should enable it when developing, but disable it when the site goes live) A warning when your site is hidden from search engines