Decide What Belongs on Dashboard Home
Dashboard Home works best when it presents information relevant to the people signing in. A client who mainly edits a few pages may not need the same set of panels as a site administrator. Disable Dashboard Widgets makes the visible selection intentional: remove the panels your team does not use while leaving useful ones in place. All removal switches start off, so simply enabling the module does not unexpectedly clear the dashboard.
The supported known widgets include Activity, At a Glance, Quick Draft, Site Health, news, older comments and drafts panels, and PHP or browser notices represented as dashboard widgets. Removing a panel only changes that dashboard presentation. It does not delete posts, comments, drafts, health information, or the underlying feature that supplied the widget.
Include Third-Party Widgets in the Cleanup
The dashboard is not limited to WordPress’s own panels. Plugins can register additional widgets, so WP PowerSuite discovers those during dashboard setup and stores their identifiers for the selector. The discovered list is cached for one day. This gives you a way to include supported plugin panels in the same cleanup rather than maintaining separate hiding snippets for each one.
Use individual selections when several third-party panels still provide value. Disable All is the broader choice, but its name has an important exception: dashboard widgets beginning with wpps_ remain. It is therefore suitable for keeping a PowerSuite-centered dashboard, not for producing a guaranteed empty screen. The rule follows the widget ID prefix, rather than removing or retaining every plugin’s widgets as a single group.
Choose the Content Before the Column Layout
Widget visibility and widget arrangement are separate decisions. Dashboard Columns lets users choose the column layout on Dashboard Home; this module decides which dashboard boxes remain available to arrange. For example, you can remove unused welcome or news panels first, then let users choose a column count that suits the remaining information. Neither action adds a new reporting system.
The cleanup is limited to Dashboard Home. It does not remove panels from post editors, hide notices across wp-admin, or change stored widget data. That boundary keeps the configuration predictable when a site uses other administration customizations at the same time.
