As developers, we like to keep up with WordPress News.
Most likely our clients do not care or understand WordPress news. Here is how I hide unwanted widgets from the WordPress Admin dashboard by including this code snippet in the themes function.php file.
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| //* REMOVE DASHBOARD WIDGETS | |
| function remove_dashboard_meta() { | |
| remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_incoming_links', 'dashboard', 'normal' ); | |
| remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_plugins', 'dashboard', 'normal' ); | |
| remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_primary', 'dashboard', 'normal' ); | |
| remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_secondary', 'dashboard', 'normal' ); | |
| remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_incoming_links', 'dashboard', 'normal' ); | |
| remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_quick_press', 'dashboard', 'side' ); | |
| //*remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_recent_drafts', 'dashboard', 'side' ); | |
| //*remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_recent_comments', 'dashboard', 'normal' ); | |
| //*remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_right_now', 'dashboard', 'normal' ); | |
| } | |
| add_action( 'admin_init', 'remove_dashboard_meta' ); |
by Comment functions you want to keep by adding //* to line beginning.
I like to keep Recent Drafts, Recent Comments and the Right Now widget.