Title: Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget Author: Milan Dinić Published: May 29, 2017 Last modified: February 25, 2019 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget. svg) # Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget By [Milan Dinić](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dimadin/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget.1.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/#reviews) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/) ## Description This plugin automatically disables WordPress Events and News widget from the dashboard. By removing, you also prevent all external requests widgets makes so that it can work. It is a very lightweight, it has no settings, just activate it and it works immediately. And it’s on [GitHub](https://github.com/dimadin/disable-wordpress-events-and-news-dashboard-widget). ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4651fc58f69e474b37b355b62e887a70fb196a8c8cd64116397f142e77f5380c? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Very Nice](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-nice-1292/)󠁿 [aowvn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aowvn/) May 9, 2019 I think a way to delete it along time ago , and now i found this , perfect <3 Thanks you & keep update this plugin ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0afc88ab02b1d95c375263c947383e2d478725d2c1cdd5d37b9b5df1597fa39b? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Solid plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solid-plugin-103/)󠁿 [Luke Cavanagh](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lukefiretoss/) November 15, 2017 Disabling the events and news dashboard widget, has minor gains on wp-admin load times. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/94831939874d0aba86bbb2a2d178103a83d1b3d200b35ce4bfd28ed945beb0f4? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Nice! Clear, simple, does the trick](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-clear-simple-does-the-trick/)󠁿 [jleahy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jleahy/) August 13, 2017 Nice plugin. Need to turn WordPress news off for client users when they log in. Does the trick. Thanks! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7589dabd2377913ceeb528e3bf1287e155903364ac094ec66225ffe01f60e984? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Simple and works!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-and-works-135/)󠁿 [szabesz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/szabesz/) June 30, 2017 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 all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Milan Dinić ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dimadin/) “Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Meta * Version **1.0** * Last updated **7 years ago** * Active installations **400+** * WordPress version ** 4.8 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.1.22** * PHP version ** 5.2.4 or higher ** * Languages * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/) and [Serbian](https://sr.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget) * Tags * [dashboard](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)[dashboard widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard-widget/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 4 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Milan Dinić ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dimadin/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-events-and-news-dashboard-widget/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](https://milandinic.com/donate/)