It often come a situation in front of you when you drastically want to remove widgets from your WordPress dashboard. Simply paste the following snippet in your theme’s functions.php file and you will be able to accomplish the task.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | //Remove unwanted widgets from Dashboard function remove_dashboard_widgets() { global$wp_meta_boxes; unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary']); } add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets'); |
Snippet Source/Credit: WP Guru