WordPress dashboard widgets like ‘At a Glance’, ‘Recent Activities’ and ‘WordPress News’ etc, you can easily hide them by user capabilities in your WordPress website. Great for simplify dashboard on client websites.
Dashboard Commander is a WordPress plugin that allows you to command your admin dashboard. It enables you to manage built-in widgets, dynamically registered widgets to hide them on the basis of user capabilities.
Start by installing ‘Dashboard Commander’ plugin in WordPress
Upon activation, visit your admin area dashboard Settings -> Dashboard Commander admin screen to hide dashboard widgets based on user capabilities. This way you can hide admin widgets selectively for editors, authors, contributors and subscribers etc.