Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget
by Milan Dinić · Admin & Utilities
Also makes 17 other plugins · 47.8K+ installs across the portfolio →
Disable WordPress Events and News widget from the dashboard.
47 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.24, well behind 6.8.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2742 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
77
now · peak 153
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
7.5y ago
latest release · v1.0
1
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2021-03-04 · 1,419 observations
Estimated value
What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.
Est. annual revenue
Est. acquisition value
No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 4 reviews to 2019-05-09Reviewers are happy across the board, calling it a simple fix that hides the dashboard widget for clients and trims wp-admin load times and connection errors.
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ aowvn7.3y ago
I think a way to delete it along time ago , and now i found this , perfect <3 Thanks you & keep update this plugin
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Luke Cavanagh8.8y ago
Disabling the events and news dashboard widget, has minor gains on wp-admin load times.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ jleahy9.0y ago
Nice plugin. Need to turn WordPress news off for client users when they log in. Does the trick. Thanks!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ szabesz9.2y ago
Thank you for this! This new feature of WordPress kept generating warnings, reporting connection errors to their servers. It is good to get rid of both the log messages and the all those useless connections.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-03-09 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-03-08 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-03-06 500+ → 400+ down after 320 days in tier
- 2025-04-20 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-04-19 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-04-18 600+ → 500+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2025-04-15 500+ → 600+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2025-04-11 600+ → 500+ down after 501 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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- D Dashboard Widget Sidebar 400+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
- W WP Dash Message 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
- R Right Now Reloaded 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
- R Recently Edited Content Widget 200+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
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