Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget vs Dashboard Welcome for Elementor

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget

by Milan Dinić

Health D47

Dashboard Welcome for Elementor

by IdeaBox Creations

Health B83

Active-install trajectory

Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget Dashboard Welcome for Elementor

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget	Dashboard Welcome for Elementor
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	400–500	10K–20K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-20% ✓	-50%
Overall health	D · 47	B · 83 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	98/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	80/100 ✓	75/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.17★ ✓	4.02★
Reviews	4	23 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	32/100	95/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	7.5y ago	4mo ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	77	1.8K ✓
Category	Admin & Utilities	Admin & Utilities

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget Dashboard Welcome for Elementor

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.