Admin menus, dashboard access and visibility
The leading plugins represent distinct ways to manage dashboard navigation, access and visible elements.
- Admin Menu Editor: Its name points to tools for editing admin menus.
- Remove Dashboard Access: Represents access control for the dashboard.
- Hide Admin Bar from Non-Admins: Focuses on admin bar visibility for non-admin users.
- Widget Disable: Covers disabling widgets.
Dashboard presentation and site-specific content
Some leading plugins focus on how the dashboard or login experience is presented, rather than navigation or access.
White Label CMS and Erident Custom Login and Dashboard represent customization and presentation use cases. Dashboard Welcome for Elementor adds a site-specific welcome-page angle to this part of the category.
Dashboard information, notes and agency tools
The category also includes tools associated with dashboard information, messaging and workflow-related tasks.
- WP Data Access and Display PHP Version point to data and system information use cases.
- Dashboard Notepad and Announce from the Dashboard represent notes and dashboard announcements.
- Automattic For Agencies Client brings an agency-related tool into the mix.
- Related tags include analytics, widget and notes, reflecting the breadth of information and workspace functions associated with dashboard plugins.
What adoption and update figures mean for choosing
Dashboard plugin adoption is concentrated in a small group, and update recency among leading plugins varies widely.
There are 490 plugins in the category, but only 2 have at least 100,000 installs and 10 have at least 10,000. This points to a long tail of smaller-adoption options rather than a large group of widely installed plugins.
Overall, 47% were updated within the last year. Among leading plugins, several were updated this month or within the past few months, while others were last updated 31, 35, 42 or 112 months ago. Update timing is one useful comparison point when narrowing a choice.