Description
Tired of a messy WordPress admin full of notices, unused widgets, and unwanted comment clutter? Quiet Admin helps you create a cleaner, distraction-free wp-admin so you can focus on what matters.
Features
- 🛑 Hide Notices: Choose to hide non-critical notices, or silence all admin notices temporarily.
- 💬 Disable Comments: Turn off comments site-wide, or selectively by post type.
- 📋 Clean Dashboard Widgets: Remove default WordPress widgets and plugin widgets with a live dashboard manager.
- ⚡ Lightweight & Fast: Built for performance, with no bloat.
- 🎯 Simple UI: Everything is in one place — no complicated settings.
Quiet Admin is perfect for agencies, freelancers, and site owners who want to streamline their admin dashboard and improve productivity.
👉 Learn more and find tips on using Quiet Admin at Element Media.
Screenshots
Plugin simple homepage 
Notices options 
Comments options 
Dashboard widgets options
Installation
- Upload and activate the plugin.
- Go to Settings Quiet Admin.
- To manage dashboard widgets, visit your Dashboard and append
?qa_manage=1to the URL.
FAQ
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Will this plugin speed up my WordPress dashboard?
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Yes. By removing unnecessary widgets and notices, it can slightly improve performance and create a faster, cleaner admin experience.
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Yes. All changes are reversible through the Quiet Admin settings panel.
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Is it safe to disable comments?
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Absolutely. Disabling comments through Quiet Admin simply removes comment functionality where you choose — it won’t break your site.
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Where can I get support?
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You can open a ticket on the WordPress.org support forum or visit our website for additional resources.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Quiet Admin – disable comments, hide notices, and clean dashboard widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
2.0.4
- Fixed basic notices to show normaly
- Minified the css and js files
2.0.2
- License header added; WP.org readme added.
- Sanitized GET access to satisfy WPCS.
- Unified Dashboard hiding via one list (includes Welcome Panel).
- Higher removal priority to catch late widgets (e.g., Fluent Forms).