Do you want to remove the welcome panel in your WordPress dashboard? The welcome panel is a box added to the dashboard page of your WordPress admin area. It contains shortcuts to perform different tasks and helps new users find their way around. In this article, we will show you how to remove the welcome panel in WordPress dashboard.
The welcome panel is a meta box that is added to the dashboard screen of the WordPress admin area. It shows shortcuts to different sections of your WordPress site.
The purpose of the welcome panel is to help beginners find their way around WordPress.
However, as you become more familiar with all of these locations, this panel will become less useful to you.
Having it on screen pushes other important dashboard widgets down and makes them less noticeable.
Let’s see how you can easily get rid of the welcome panel from your WordPress dashboard screen.
There are several ways to hide and even completely remove the welcome panel.
The easiest way to remove it is simply by clicking the Dismiss button in the top right corner of the panel.
You can also remove the welcome panel by clicking the Screen Options button in the upper right corner of the screen.
This will bring up a drop down menu. You need to uncheck the box next to the 'Welcome' option.
Both methods mentioned above will hide the welcome panel. You can access it again by clicking the Screen Options button and checking the box next to the Welcome option.
However, if you want to completely remove the welcome panel even from the Screen Options, that's also possible.
This method requires you to add code to your WordPress site. If you haven't done this before, check out our guide on how to paste web snippets into WordPress.
You'll need to add this code to your theme's functions.php file or a site-specific plugin.
remove_action ('welcome_panel', 'wp_welcome_panel'); This code simply removes the action that adds the welcome panel to the admin panel.
You can now visit the dashboard screen and click on the Screen Options menu. You will notice that the welcome panel option will no longer be available.
That is all. We hope this article helped you to remove the welcome panel in WordPress dashboard. You may also want to check out our list of 19 Helpful Tips for Driving Traffic to Your New WordPress Site.
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