How To Remove Welcome from Your New WordPress Blog

When you are creating your WordPress website, you try from head to toe to mark your presence, thus may achieve your goals and hit the target audience.

It also implies that the site you would be building for your business shall be according to your objectives and fulfil your requirements and shall not be a typical WordPress site.

Adding and removing things that you see in the dashboard, customizing the website to give a pro impression to the audience would reflect a positive appearance and direct visitors to your page.

Recently, you have built a new WordPress website at your webhosting and unable to remove the welcome panel from the dashboard page. It provides shortcuts and helps the new customers to access the site.

The Need to Remove the Welcome Panel from The Page

Welcome is a rectangular panel in the dashboard of the WordPress showing shortcuts to go around the website and is quite helpful for a new user.

As you are using the site often and is used to its various locations, the esteemed panel seems to be merely utilizing the space and is of no use. On the other hand, it takes your eye off from other useful widgets, thus making it less recognizable to the audience.

Ways to Hide Welcome from The WordPress

There are several tips to hide the welcome panel from the dashboard of your website among which the easiest way is to click the 'Dismiss' button which is at the top right-hand corner of the welcome panel.

The other way to hide the welcome is by clicking the ‘Screen Options’ button that is again at the right-hand corner of the screen.

After clicking the options follows the menu where you need to uncheck or remove the tick mark from the checkbox that is next to the Welcome button.

Both the above methods would help you in hiding the esteemed panel on the dashboard of the WordPress site that you may access again by clicking the Screen Options following by checking the box adjacent to the welcome option.

Ways to Completely Remove Welcome From The Screen

There is a possibility to remove 'Welcome' entirely from the dashboard screen option by adding a code to your site. The code adds to the theme that would look like remove_ action ( ' welcome panel ', ' wp_ welcome_ panel '); that eradicates the esteemed welcome panel from the WordPress site.

For your confirmation, visit the dashboard screen and click the options menu to justify yourself. You will not see the welcome panel option as it had been erasing from your WordPress site.

I hope this article had helped you give a new look to your WordPress website by successfully removing the 'welcome' panel from your site that was unnecessarily accounting more space and making the most apparent things less noticeable.