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How to Remove the Welcome Panel in WordPress Dashboard

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.

Remove welcome panel in WordPress dashboard

Why Remove Welcome Panel in WordPress?

Welcome panel is a meta box added to the dashboard screen of WordPress admin area. It shows shortcuts to different sections of your WordPress site.

Welcome Panel

The purpose of the welcome panel is to help beginners find their way around WordPress.

However as you become more familiar to all these locations, this panel will become less useful for you.

Having it on the screen, pushes down other important dashboard widgets and make them less noticeable.

Let’s see how you can easily get rid of the welcome panel from your WordPress dashboard screen.

Removing Welcome Panel from WordPress Dashboard

There are multiple ways to hide and even completely remove the welcome panel.

The easiest way to remove it is by simply clicking on the Dismiss button at the top right corner of the panel.

Dismiss welcome panel in WordPress dashboard

You can also remove the welcome panel by clicking on the Screen Options button at the top right corner of the screen.

This will bring a fly down menu. You need to uncheck the checkbox next to ‘Welcome’ option.

Remove welcome panel using Screen Options in WordPress

Both methods mentioned above will hide the welcome panel. You can access it again by clicking on the Screen Options button and checking the box next to Welcome option.

However if you want to completely remove the welcome panel even from the Screen Options, then that’s also possible.

This method requires you to add code to your WordPress site. If you haven’t done this before, then take a look at our guide on pasting snippets from the web into WordPress.

You will 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 dashboard.

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.

Welcome panel removed from dashboard and Screen Options menu

That’s all. We hope this article helped you remove the welcome panel in WordPress dashboard. You may also want to see our list of 19 actionable tips to drive traffic to your new WordPress site.

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Compare Web Hosting Control Panel: cPanel vs Plesk

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style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the world of web-hosting there are two control panels that are commonly used; cPanel and Plesk. Both solutions are generally offered by all href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/hosting-reviews/" target="_blank">web-hosting companies on a VPS or dedicated server plan and they are generally around the same price. Sometimes you will be able to find Plesk being offered for less than cPanel but this will vary. If you are using a shared hosting solution you are generally only offered the user cPanel.

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Comparison Chart: cPanel vs Plesk

Compare cPanel and Plesk features head-to-head in table below.

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About cPanel

Initially released in year 1996, cPanel is originally designed by J. Nicholas Koston; and it’s now managed by cPanel Inc. in Houston, Texas. The software supports a wide range of Unix based OS including CentOS, Red Hat Linux, as well as FreeBSD. cPanel is the most commonly used control panel because it is generally offered free with a shared hosting account. cPanel offers two interfaces one for the client and one for the reseller, the reseller panel is also known as the WHM panel.

cPanel official website: href="http://www.cpanel.net/" target="_blank">http://www.cpanel.net/

Screenshots Of cPanel

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Screenshots Of WHM

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The basic user cPanel allows the user to control his or her site thorough an easy to use interface. The features that are available will vary based on what is setup through the WHM panel. Some common tasks that can be performed through the user cPanel includes; uploading files, creating sup-domains, modifying DNS entries, creating/editing E-Mail accounts, and monitoring resource usage for sites hosted under that cPanel.

The WHM panel is designed for resellers to be able to create cPanels for subscribers. The WHM panel is generally offered to users with a reseller, VPS, or dedicated server account.

Overall the WHM offers a lot of features but can be difficult to use for someone who has only used the basic user cPanel.

Do note that this post is written with the end users in mind. While it may look very easy to get started with cPanel as an end user; setting up and managing the backend system is another story. For instance, there are a number of steps, including configuring a package handler like Yum and server release tiers, to follow before the installation. Also, note that cPanel does not come with an uninstaller- once it’s installed, you will have to reformat the server in order to remove it.

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About Plesk

Plesk, on the other hand, was released back in year 2003. The company is originally a product of SWsoft (after SWsoft acquired Plesk Inc.) but it’s now shipped under Parallels Inc; and the infamous Plesk is rebranded as Parallels Plesk Panel. Unlike cPanel, Plesk supports both Windows and Unix based operating system. Parallels Plesk Panel for Unix support Debian, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, SUSE, Red Hat Linux; while Parallels Plesk Panel for Windows support Windows Server 2003 and 2008. Personally, I think that Plesk offers better flexibility (especially for Windows users) when compare to cPanel.

Plesk also offer two different control panels; one for the user and one for the administrator. The administrator control panel is also known as Plesk Server Administrator (PSA).

Plesk official website: href="http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/" target="_blank">http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/

Plesk Screenshots

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PSA Screenshots

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Generally, Plesk does the same things as cPanel but the layouts are completely different. It’d be tough to switch between the two when you are already familiar with one of them.

Plesk is a great solution for those who are familiar with Windows and don’t mind spending a little time figuring out how everything is setup – which, in my opinion, not too hard.

One major thing I like better about Plesk than cPanel is Plesk Site Builder. I find Plesk Site Builder very powerful and easy to use. Just to give you a quick feel on how it’s like, below are some screenshots.

Plesk Site Builder Screenshots

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Bottomline: Plesk Or cPanel?

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I would recommend cPanel to the basic user who is just trying to run a single small site or who has been using cPanel for a long time (since it is difficult to switch because of the layout differences).

I would recommend Plesk to anyone who is looking for a powerful and cheap GUI to manage their website. Additionally Plesk offers everything cPanel does plus the site builder which is a great tool for someone who is just starting out in web design or wants to make a quick website, Plesk is also generally a little cheaper than cPanel so it just makes more sense to me. Please keep in mind that for many shared hosing platforms Plesk is not an option.

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