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Disable Admin Notices – Hide Dashboard Notifications
It promises a clean dashboard but ends up spamming you instead.
GrowingPoor rating
62/100
The plugin spams its own notices and locks most useful features behind a paywall.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.7★
347 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+194%
Growing fast
185 → 544 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.95★
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
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 · +194% in the last year
185/day a year ago→544/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayDisable Admin Notices is a polarizing plugin that works as advertised for some users but is widely criticised for ironic self-promotion spam, a largely paywalled free tier, a known CSRF security vulnerability, and unreliable notice-hiding behaviour.
What people like
- +Core functionality works as described — hides admin notices individually without nuking important ones×4
- +Solves a genuine UX problem by suppressing third-party plugin ads cluttering the WordPress dashboard×3
- +Easy to configure
Common complaints
- −The plugin itself injects its own promotional notices and a dashboard panel — the very behaviour it claims to prevent×3
- −Known CSRF security vulnerability (versions up to and including 1.3.6) that can allow unauthenticated attackers to perform unauthorised actions (since 1.3.6)×3
- −Most settings and functionality locked behind the Pro (paid) version, making the free version largely useless×4
- −Hidden notices frequently reappear — the Hide button does not reliably persist
- −Incompatible with some popular plugins (e.g. Elementor notices cannot be hidden)
- −Poor or absent support, including for Pro users
- −The Hide button visually enlarges remaining admin notices as a side effect
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.95★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 10%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 347 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-10★★★★★Works perfectly, ignore 1 star reviewsChristian Saborio
- 2025-12-18★★★★★Anti Spam Software spams youtexofant
- 2025-12-06★★★★★Уникайте!Laset
- 2025-11-24★★★★★Adds more notices than it removessvijany
- 2025-07-12★★★★★Cross-Site Request ForgeryCelestial Petals
- 2025-04-08★★★★★Doesn't work.KingDingbat
- 2025-04-02★★★★★При отключении плагина сайт ломаетсяollin
- 2025-03-27★★★★★Has a security vulnerabilityWPWarrior
- 2025-03-14★★★★★Not working (or only for PRO)wpuser651682
- 2025-01-09★★★★★start collecting money…chrys24
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.
498
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
562
Prior 7-day baseline
832
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
7,694
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,019
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-11.4%
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.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.84
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
70%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-33%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.02 → 3.95★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered