Dashboard Widgets Suite vs Welcomify – Custom Welcome Dashboard

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! 🙂

Welcomify allows you to replace the default WordPress welcome panel with any page you create using your favorite page builder – Elementor, Gutenberg, Bricks, Divi, and more. Key Features Role-Based Dashboards – Assign different welcome pages for each user role (Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Subscriber) Page Builder Compatible – Works with Elementor, Gutenberg, Bricks, Divi, Beaver Builder, Breakdance, and more Dismissible Option – Allow users to dismiss the welcome panel if desired Clean Embed – Pages are displayed cleanly without headers, footers, or sidebars Multisite Support – Full support for WordPress multisite networks Lightweight – No bloat, just the features you need Translation Ready – Fully internationalized and ready for translation Use Cases Create a branded onboarding experience for new users Display important announcements to specific user roles Show quick-start guides for content creators Present analytics dashboards to administrators Welcome clients with custom messages How It Works Welcomify supports two ways to display content on the dashboard, depending on your page builder: For Elementor & Bricks (Templates) Go to Elementor > Templates or Bricks > Templates and create a new template Design your welcome dashboard content and save the template Go to Welcomify in the admin menu Select your template from the Elementor Templates or Bricks Templates section in the dropdown Assign it to a user role and save For Gutenberg, Divi, Beaver Builder, Breakdance & Others (Pages) Create a new WordPress page using your preferred page builder Design your welcome dashboard content — the page can be published, private, or even password protected Go to Welcomify in the admin menu Select your page from the Pages section in the dropdown — it will show a label indicating which builder was used Assign it to a user role and save That’s it! When users visit the WordPress dashboard, they will see your custom content instead of the default welcome panel.