Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard Plugin

The #1 Plugin to Customize the WordPress Dashboard!

Ultimate Dashboard allows you to create a custom WordPress dashboard for you and your clients.

Replace the default WordPress dashboard widgets with your own and give the WordPress dashboard a more meaningful use.

Ultimate Dashboard is a clean & lightweight plugin that was made to optimize the user experience for clients inside the WordPress admin area.

Customize the WordPress Dashboard today!

❌ Remove dashboard widgets

Remove all or individual default WordPress widgets with just a click.

➕ Create your own widgets

Create icon, text & HTML widgets to create a customized client dashboard and send your customer to the key areas of their website – or anywhere else!

🎨 Login Customizer

White label the WordPress login area. Completely customize the WordPress login screen & apply your own branding with the power & live-preview capabilities of the WordPress customizer.

↔️ Login Redirect

The Login Redirect featur allows you to change the WordPress login URL, hide the /wp-admin/ URL for non logged-in users and redirect users after login on a per-role basis.

🖌️ Add Custom CSS

• Add custom CSS to only the WordPress dashboard
• Add custom CSS to the entire WordPress admin area
• Add custom CSS to the WordPress login screen with a live preview inside the WordPress customizer

📋 Create Custom Admin Pages

Create custom Top-Level & Sub-Menu pages using HTML, CSS or the default WordPress WISIWYG Editor and add them anywhere to the WordPress admin menu.

✨ More Features

• Change the WordPress welcome panel content
• Change the WordPress “Howdy” text
• Set a custom WordPress dashboard headline
• Hide the WordPress admin bar from the frontend
• Remove “Help” tab
• Remove “Screen Options” tab
• Customize the WordPress footer & version text
• Export/import dashboard widgets & settings

For even more features, check out Ultimate Dashboard PRO.

🏆 Ultimate Dashboard PRO

• Remove 3rd party widgets
• Restrict dashboard widgets & admin pages to specific users or user roles
• Fully white label & rebrand WordPress
• Advanced Login Customizer features
• Create Custom Admin Pages with Elementor, Beaver Builder & Brizy
• Create video widgets
• Create contact form widgets
• WordPress multisite support
• Admin Menu Editor
• Admin Bar Editor

Learn more about Ultimate Dashboard PRO

What’s next?

If you like Ultimate Dashboard, make sure to check out our other products:

• Page Builder Framework – A fast & minimalistic WordPress theme designed for the new WordPress era.
• Better Admin Bar – The plugin to make your clients enjoy WordPress. It replaces the default admin bar to provide the best possible user experience when editing & navigating a website.

1. Download the ultimate-dashboard.zip file to your computer.
2. Unzip the file.
3. Upload the ultimate-dashboard folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
4. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.

To access the settings page navigate to Settings > Ultimate Dashboard through your WordPress menu.
To create new Dashboard Widgets, navigate to Dashboard > Dashboard Widgets through wour WordPress menu.

1. 

   Icon Widget Dashboard

2. 

   Text & Icon Widget with Tooltips

3. 

   Login Customizer - Example 1

4. 

   Login Customizer - Example 2

5. 

   White Label Settings

6. 

   Custom Admin Page

7. 

   Widget Settings

8. 

   Login Redirect Settings

9. 

   General Settings

10. 

    Custom CSS Settings

11. 

    Modules Screen

3.8.1 | July 24, 2024

• Fixed: Fatal error in the WordPress admin area if “Howdy”-text was changed due to recent WordPress core update (6.1.1)

3.8 | June 19, 2024

• New: Dark Mode (PRO)
• New: Move sub-menu items across top-level menu items in the Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Tweak: Overall improvements to the Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Tweak: Overall UI/UX improvements
• Fixed: Performance issues related to the Admin Menu Editor

3.7.14 | May 10, 2024

• Tested up to WordPress 6.5

3.7.13 | January 09, 2024

• Fixed: “Add New” text in the WordPress admin menu for adding new widgets & admin pages

3.7.12 | December 30, 2023

• Fixed: Minor security issue

3.7.11 | December 11, 2023

• Fixed: Minor security issue

3.7.10 | November 22, 2023

• Fixed: Bug where BFCM notice was not dismissible

3.7.9 | November 22, 2023

• Update BFCM deal details

3.7.8 | November 07, 2023

• Minor security tweaks

3.7.7 | August 27, 2023

• Tested up to WordPress 6.3

3.7.6 | May 21, 2023

• Tweak: Minor security fix

3.7.5 | May 11, 2023

• Tweak: Improve export/import functionality
• Tweak: Allow source tag in HTML widget
• Fixed: Fatal error with Google SiteKit

3.7.4 | February 07, 2023

• Tweak: Updated logo

3.7.3 | January 30, 2023

• Tweak: Wording

3.7.2 | December 05, 2022

• Fixed: Issue with password protected pages & login redirect feature

3.7.1.5 | October 04, 2022

• Minor tweaks & improvements

3.7.1.4 | July 20, 2022

• Tweak: Wording

3.7.1.3 | July 19, 2022

• Tweak: Open link in a new tab

3.7.1.2 | July 16, 2022

• Fixed: Wording

3.7.1.1 | July 1, 2022

• Minor tweaks

3.7.1 | July 1, 2022

• New: Field to replace the block editor logo (Ultimate Dashboard PRO)

3.7 | June 15, 2022

• New: Improved Login Customizer with features such as Background Image, Background Overlay, Form Box Shadow, etc.
• Fixed: Issues when configuring Admin Menu Editor for specific users

3.6.3 | May 13, 2022

• Tweak: Further improved Admin Menu Editor functionality

3.6.2 | May 10, 2022

• Fixed: Some menu items didn’t appear in the Admin Menu Editor (for instance Yoast SEO)
• Fixed: Admin Menu Editor & Admin Bar Editor are not responsive

3.6.1 | May 04, 2022

• Tweak: Changed plugin header information, updated images & footer links
• Fixed: Some sub-menu items won’t loade in the Admin Menu Editor, for instance in the WooCommerce Analytics section. If you still don’t see certain menu or sub-menu items appear, please try resetting the Admin Menu Editor for all or specific user roles.

3.6 | April 25, 2022

• New: Allow rendering shortcodes in the WordPress welcome panel
• New: Allow rendering shortcodes in the Ultimate Dashboard widget titles
• New: Refactored import/export functionality to allow for more granular control when exporting settings
• New: Placeholder tags to display information dynamically in widgets & welcome panel
• Tweak: Rewrite URL’s when exporting & importing settings to a different WordPress install
• Fixed: PHP Warning: Undefined array key “path” (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-message-php-warning-undefined-array-key-path/)
• Fixed: Build Admin Menu Editor only when a specific role is clicked instead of loading them all at once (in a row). This was causing performance issues & was interpreted as a security issue by some installs.
• Fixed: Reliability & accuracy of the Admin Menu Editor has been improved

3.5.3 | March 02, 2022

• New: Added support for WordPress’ new language switcher on login screen
• Updated description

3.5.2 | February 03, 2022

• Tested up to 5.9
• Tweak: Updated texts
• Fixed: Fatal error in WordPress’ tools section
• Fixed: Content of Custom CSS fields on settings page appear empty until clicked

3.5.1 | November 11, 2021

• Tweak: Updated admin notice

3.5 | August 16, 2021

• New: Change WordPress’ Howdy text
• New: Change WordPress login URL
• New: Redirect yoursite.com/wp-admin/ for non logged-in users
• New: Login Redirect feature
• Tweak: Show review notice only to admins
• Tweak: New tabbed layout on Settings page
• Fixed: Some 3rd party menu items did not appear in the Admin Menu Editor
• Fixed: Some 3rd party menu items did not appear in the Admin Bar Editor
• Fixed: Only load FontAwesome in the WordPress admin if an admin page exists
• Fixed: Settings link on the plugin screen links to non-existent page
• Fixed: Remove data on uninstall on multisite installations

3.4.1 | July 26, 2021

• Fixed: Welcome panel cannot be removed

3.4 | June 22, 2021

• New: Advanced White Label settings

3.3.4 | June 8, 2021

• New: WordPress admin body classes (udb-user-{nicename}, udb-role-{current-user-role})
• New: Settings to change the WordPress welcome panel

3.3.3 | June 1, 2021

• New: Remember Users/Roles tab when saving in Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Other minor tweaks & improvements

3.3.2 | May 22, 2021

• New: Add separators to your admin menu with the Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Tweak: Remove Theme Options tab from custom Admin Pages
• Fixed: Some sub menu items can’t be removed with the Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Fixed: Conflict with 3rd party plugins where not all roles were loaded in the Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• Fixed: On multisites, all menu items are shown no matter what role is selected (PRO)

3.3.1 | May 18, 2021

• New: TablePress support for Admin Menu Editor (PRO)
• New: Admin notice that kindly asks you to leave a review
• Tweak: Pave the way to implement Brizy support for Custom Admin Pages (PRO)

3.3 | April 13, 2021

• New: Admin Bar Editor (PRO)
• New: Add custom CSS to the WordPress login screen
• Fixed: Cannot redeclare retrieve_password (Fatal error)
• Fixed: Export/import issue with user roles (dashboard widgets & admin pages)
• Fixed: Export/import functionality for “Modules” were missing
• Fixed: All widgets were active/inactive after import, even though if they were active/inactive on the original website

3.2.1 | March 04, 2021

• Fixed: Module switcher no longer working

3.2 | March 04, 2021

• New: Improved & cleaned up admin & settings page design
• New: Admin Menu Editor – Change the admin menu for specific user roles (PRO)
• New: Admin Menu Editor – Add custom menu items to the WordPress admin menu (PRO)
• Tweak: Admin Menu Editor – Changed sub menu name from Admin Menu to Admin Menu Editor to be more precise
• Fixed: Widget & admin page user roles are not imported properly (PRO)
• Fixed: Login Customizer – Border color styling
• Fixed: Admin Menu Editor – Rare case where the admin menu was broken after using the Admin Menu Editor feature (PRO)
• Fixed: Login Customizer – Box-width setting doesn’t work (PRO)

3.1.3 | December 20, 2020

• Tweak: Improved “Modules” feature
• Tweak: Improved “Login Customizer” CSS output
• Fixed: Admin email verification screen styling

3.1.2 | December 09, 2020

• Fixed: Wrong plugin dir for PRO plugin updater

3.1.1 | December 09, 2020

• Fixed: Broken plugin updater in PRO add-on

3.1 | December 09, 2020

• WordPress 5.6 compatibility
• New: Modules screen to turn on/off features
• Tweak: Updated & improved settings page UI

3.0 | October 27, 2020

• Rewritten the plugin from the ground up
• New: Enable/disable widgets on the “All Widgets” screen
• New: Updated to FontAwesome 5
• New: Improved icon picker
• Fixed: Admin Pages export/import functionality
• Other tweaks & improvements

2.8.3 | August 11, 2020

• Fixed: WordPress 5.5 compatibility

2.8.1 | March 4, 2020

• Fixed: CSS sanitization

2.8 | March 4, 2020

• New: Create admin pages & sub-pages
• Minor tweaks & improvements

2.7.2 | April 17, 2020

• New: Use {home_url} inside login customizer logo URL to dynamically fetch the site URL
• New: Filter (udb_login_customizer) to disable the Login Customizer feature entirely
• New: Filter (udb_login_logo) to change the login logo image. That will allow you to change the logo without having to upload it to your or your clients website
• Minor tweaks & improvements
• Fixed: HTML widget wouldn’t save

2.7.1 | April 4, 2020

• Tweak: We found a better way to implement the login customizer feature and were able to remove the auto-generated page.

2.7 | April 1, 2020

• New: Login Customizer
• New: Widget Color Settings
• New: Change Footer & Version Text
• New: HTML Widget
• New: Added support for Health Status widget
• Fixed: contextual_help_list deprecated notice
• Fixed: Long tooltips overlap icon widgets

2.6 | February 18, 2020

• New: Change dashboard headline
• New: Add custom admin CSS
• New: Remove “Help” tab
• New: Remove “Screen Options” tab
• New: Remove admin bar from the frontend

2.5.1 | January 3, 2020

• Fixed: Text decoration issue

2.5 | September 27, 2019

• Maintenance Release

2.4 | April 30, 2019

• New: Text Widgets
• New: Tooltips for Icon Widgets
• New: Import/Export Widgets & Settings
• New: Custom Dashboard CSS field
• New: Improved UX/UI

2.3.1 | January 28, 2019

• Tweak: cleaned up codebase
• Fixed: internationalization

2.3 | November 30, 2018

• Tweak: set required PHP version to 5.6
• Tweak: tested up to 5.0
• Tweak: highlighted pro link
• Fixed: internationalization

2.2 | August 1, 2018

• Tweak: Updated Settings Page UI
• Tweak: Updated Links & Descriptions under Widgets -> PRO

2.1.1 | 05/31/2018

• Fixed: Number of Dashboard Widgets is limited by the “Reading” settings under Appearance -> Reading

2.1 | 03/18/2018

• Maintenance release
• Added: Action Link
• Tweak: save deactivated dashboard widgets in a single array
• Fixed: wrong hook used to remove dashboard widgets

2.0.1 | 11-17-2017

• Minor Tweaks & Improvements

2.0 | 11-14-2017

• Rewritten the plugin from ground up
• Ultimate Dashboard now has its own, top-level menu in the WordPress Dashboard
• Tweak: metabox styling
• Tweak: embedded font-awesome instead of loading it from an external source
• Tweak: removed roboto as default font
• Tweak: minor security tweaks

1.3.1 | 10-28-2016

• Updated: Plugin Header & options page sidebar

1.3 | 10-06-2016

• Added: filter/search functionality for dashboard icons (Dashicons & Font-Awesome)

1.2.1 | 08-21-2016

• Fixed: The Plugin Generated xxx Characters of Unexpected Output During Activation message

1.2 | 08-21-2016

• Removed: Ultimate Dashboard PRO notification
• Added: Sidebar to Ultimate Dashboard options page
• Added: Custom Post Type columns (icon, link target)
• Tweak: Default plugin language is now english
• Added: German translation

1.1 | 07-20-2016

• Removed the limit of 5 dashboard widgets

1.0.3 | 07-07-2016

• Added: all WordPress Dashicons
• Tweak: new font for Dashboard Widgets (Roboto)
• Tweak: Added an accordion to sort icon groups

1.0.2 | 07-05-2016

• Moved the Ultimate Dashboard CPT from the main menu to Dashboard > Dashboard Widgets
• Added better descriptions while creating a Dashboard Widget for absolute and relative urls

1.0.1

Removed a bug that only allowed to create 1 Dashboard Widget.

1.0

Initial Release