# Dashboard Widgets - disable widgets and more areas or grid layout
**URL:** https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/dashboard-widgets-disable-widgets-and-more-areas-or-grid-layout/319
**Category:** Feature Request
**Created:** [October 7, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/dashboard-widgets-disable-widgets-and-more-areas-or-grid-layout/319 "2018-10-07T14:07:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@raffaelj](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/raffaelj)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/dashboard-widgets-disable-widgets-and-more-areas-or-grid-layout/319/1 "2018-10-07T14:07:01Z")
I would love to have some more options to customize my dashboard. It’s the first thing I see on every login and normally I skip the page completely.
The core widgets aren’t customizable. If I have more than 5 collections, the one I search for never appears on top of the widget list. The aside widgets aren’t wide enough and the main widget is too wide… When I don’t need the huge main area, half of the page is empty…
A few things, I would change (sorted by priority):
1. disable or remove time widget (the timer doesn’t work and I really don’t need it)
2. add a check if `$widget['disabled'] == true`
- now it’s possible to deactivate widgets with a request or in the database
1. change area sizes to 1-3 or add area, that splits main in half… or skip this point and go to point 5 - grid layout
2. GUI to activate it again / to manage widgets
- I’m not sure about the best place
- `/settings/widgets` --\> user needs settings access
- `/accounts/account` --\> seems to be the right place
1. grid layout
- move whole areas
- move single widgets
- resize widgets
It’s not the most important thing right now, but it would clean the dashboard and building custom widgets would be a pleasure.
@artur Do you have other plans with the dashboard?
@aalbinson Do you want to join?
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### Author:  [@pauloamgomes](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/pauloamgomes)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/dashboard-widgets-disable-widgets-and-more-areas-or-grid-layout/319/2 "2018-10-08T17:44:22Z")
@raffaelj, if you need something very custom you can always build your controller/view and reroute the dashboard page there:
```
$app->on('admin.init', function() {
$this->on('admin.dashboard.widgets', function($widgets) {
$this->reroute('/my-dashboard');
});
});
```
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### Author:  [@raffaelj](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/raffaelj)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/dashboard-widgets-disable-widgets-and-more-areas-or-grid-layout/319/3 "2018-10-08T18:25:28Z")
@pauloamgomes Thanks for the hint. I discovered another method, which doesn’t load `Base.php` and saves a few function calls plus the redirect:
```php
$app->on('admin.init', function() {
$this->bind('/', function(){
return $this->invoke('My\\Custom\\Controller', 'index');
});
$this->bind('/cockpit/dashboard', function(){
return $this->invoke('My\\Custom\\Controller', 'index');
});
});
```
I thought, I can’t re-bind paths, but `admin.init` is triggered before `modules/Cockpit/admin.php` is included.
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### Author:  [@pauloamgomes](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/pauloamgomes)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/dashboard-widgets-disable-widgets-and-more-areas-or-grid-layout/319/4 "2018-10-08T19:11:38Z")
@raffaelj yep, your approach is far better than mine 🙂