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Dashboard Welcome for Elementor
A custom dashboard dream that often turns into a styling nightmare.
HealthyGrowing
76/100
The plugin offers a useful niche feature but suffers from broken styles and lack of updates.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.1★
23 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+135%
Growing fast
24 → 57 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +135% in the last year
24/day a year ago→57/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayDashboard Welcome for Elementor is a niche but appreciated plugin for replacing the WordPress admin dashboard with an Elementor-designed page, though it is undermined by persistent styling failures, a lack of developer updates, and largely absent support.
What people like
- +Successfully replaces the WordPress admin dashboard with a custom Elementor template page×5
- +Works well on WordPress multisite, with a single template deployable across an entire network
- +Useful for client site handovers and guiding non-technical users through the admin area×2
- +Support resolved at least one user's configuration issue quickly and clearly
Common complaints
- −Elementor styling does not load properly in the dashboard — CSS/styles break or are ignored entirely×4
- −Plugin has not been updated for an extended period, raising compatibility concerns with current WordPress and Elementor versions×3
- −Developer support is largely unresponsive; multiple forum threads went unanswered for months×3
- −Reported permission changes that persist even after the plugin is uninstalled and deleted
- −Compatibility issues with WordPress 6.3.1 — plugin was only tested up to 6.1.3
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.00★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.10★
- 9%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 23 total
Latest reviews · 23 analyzed
- 2024-01-05★★★★★2024 Update: It works!intotheforestdotus
- 2023-11-23★★★★★Disappointing and Outdated: Dashboard Welcome for ElementorMariano Cucinotta
- 2023-09-17★★★★★Great, good Job!mikguel
- 2023-08-30★★★★★Not working with current WP 6.3.1HeleneFG
- 2023-02-23★★★★★Amazing Plugin with some minor Caveatsjohndothejohndo
- 2022-03-05★★★★★Not working For me :/progyaghouti1-shot
- 2021-11-16★★★★★Styles no longer working properlyjasonliv
- 2021-09-10★★★★★Styles in the plugin crashniperblaster
- 2021-09-06★★★★★Works precisely as specified!ibowden
- 2021-08-05★★★★★ZERO supportsatraptech
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
50
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
48
Prior 7-day baseline
86
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,564
Mean release-day peak (30d)
90
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
+4.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.43
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
74%
5★ share in analyzed sample
9%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.09 → 4.00★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered