by bruandet 5 (5 reviews)

Dashboard Cleaner

Name: Dashboard Cleaner
Rating: 5.0 (5 reviews)
Author: bruandet

Reclaim your admin dashboard: Get rid of annoying banners, unwanted ads and other nuisances.

Dashboard Cleaner ranks #9,268 among WordPress.org plugins with 500+ active installations, is #143 of 1,015 in the Advertising category, a 5/5 rating from 5 reviews, and was last updated Jul 2, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7

v1.1.8 Current Version v1.1.8

Updated 3 weeks ago Last Update on 02 Jul, 2026

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#143 of 1,015 in Advertising Top 25% by installs Downloads -7.8% this week Actively maintained

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#9,268

+2 this week

Active Installs

500+

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KW Avg Position

51.3

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Downloads

7.9K

+1 today

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Review 5 out of 5

5 (5 reviews)

Next Milestone 600

Total Progress 39%

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Keyword	Position	Change	Type	Updated
nuisance	2	—	Tag	9 hours ago
dashboard	51	—	Tag	9 hours ago
notice	59	—	Tag	9 hours ago
banner	93	—	Tag	9 hours ago

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.1.8
Last Updated: Jul 02, 2026
Requires WP: 3.3.0+
Tested Up To: 7
PHP Version: 5.3 or higher
Author: bruandet

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 5
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress administrators who want a cleaner admin dashboard. It solves the problem of intrusive banners, ads, and other unwanted elements by letting users click to select and hide any HTML element on the dashboard.

Hide HTML elements on dashboard
Point-and-click element selection
DOM inspector-style targeting
Hide banners and ads

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Dashboard Cleaner

Its settings are saved to the database, but the filters are saved to a file named dhcl_xxxxx.filter and located inside the /wp-content/uploads/dashboard-cleaner/ folder (single installation) or the /wp-content/uploads/sites/X/dashboard-cleaner/ folders (multisite installation). Removing or renaming that file will simply delete your filters without affecting Dashboad Cleaner settings.

Hiding will remove the element and the space it occupies; making it invisible will mask the element but will keep the space it occupies. Hiding the element is the preferrered method but in a few cases, it can wrongly alter the whole page layout.

Partial match is accepted but whatever value you enter, it must start and end on a word boundary (as opposed to a substring). For more details about this, see the contextual Help tab in Dashboard Cleaner Settings page.

The attribute value is case-sensitive, the HTML element and attribute names aren't.

Dashboard Cleaner runs only in the back-end section (admin dashboard) not the front-end, hence it won't affect your visitors.