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Dashboard Widgets Suite

By Jeff Starr

Site Administration & Utilities / Site Health & Diagnostics

Dashboard Widgets Suite Review - In-Depth Analysis

Adds 9 awesome widgets to your WP Dashboard. Includes User Notes, Social Buttons, System Info, Debug/Error Logs, and more!

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.65/10

User Rating

4.9/5 (based on 36+ reviews)

Active Installations

4,000+

Update Frequency

Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

Dashboard Widgets Suite is a powerful plugin that adds nine useful widgets to your WordPress Dashboard. These widgets help streamline your workflow and enhance productivity.

The plugin includes a Control Panel for managing widgets directly from the Dashboard, User Notes for adding and editing notes for any user role, and a Feed Box for displaying and customizing any RSS feed. Other widgets include a Social Box for social links, a List Box for custom lists, a Widget Box for displaying any theme or WordPress widget, System Info for showing system information, and Debug Log and PHP Error Log for managing logs.

Each widget comes with customizable options, allowing you to tailor the display to your needs. The User Notes widget is particularly useful for note takers, offering formats like Text, HTML, or Code. The plugin is designed to be lightweight, fast, and secure, ensuring it integrates seamlessly with your WordPress setup.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Dashboard Widgets Suite plugin.

Dashboard widgets

User notes

Debug logs

Screenshots

FAQ

Yeah maybe, feel free to suggest a widget!

By default, the user may choose which format (text, html, code) they want for each note. To change that, so that only one format is used, add the following code to your theme (or child theme) functions.php, or add via simple custom plugin:

function dashboard_widgets_suite_notes_format_custom($field_default) {      return 'text'; // accepts: text, html, code  } add_filter('dashboard_widgets_suite_notes_format', 'dashboard_widgets_suite_notes_format_custom');

Change text to any accepted format: text, html, or code.

To override the default note styles, add the following code to your theme (or child theme) functions.php, or add via simple custom plugin:

function dashboard_widgets_suite_note_styles_custom($css) {      return '#dws-notes-user .dws-notes-user textarea, #dws-notes-user .dws-notes-user-note { font-size: 18px; }';  } add_filter('dashboard_widgets_suite_note_styles', 'dashboard_widgets_suite_note_styles_custom');

The returned CSS code is just an example, showing use of DWS existing selectors. You can change the CSS to whatever is necessary.

By default, the WordPress debug file is located at /wp-content/debug.log. To change that, add the following code to your theme (or child theme) functions.php, or add via simple custom plugin:

function dashboard_widgets_suite_log_debug_path($log) {      return '/whatever/path/debug.log';   } add_filter('dashboard_widgets_suite_log_debug_path', 'dashboard_widgets_suite_log_debug_path');

Change the path to whatever is necessary.