dismiss welcome panel nag dashboard widget when it is activated or if it is in mu-plugins directory
As of April 2026, Dismiss Welcome Panel Nag Dashboard Widget is a WordPress luciano-croce plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Dismiss Gutenberg Nag.
Dismiss Welcome Panel nag, dashboard widget, when it is activated, or automatically, if it is in mu-plugins directory. Development for this plugin, takes place at GitHub, and Travis CI. Dismiss Welcome Panel Nag is the best companion of Dismiss Gutenberg Nag, and Dismiss Browser Update Nag. Compatible with GlotPress translations. Plugin approved in the repository of the plugin directory on 2017-11-09
A neat trick, is to put this single file dismiss-welcome-nag.php (not its parent directory) in the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory (create it if not exists) so you won’t even have to enable it, and will be loaded by default, also, since first step installation of WordPress setup!
This, is different from the other similar plugins, because uses the filter hook, and not…
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 5.0.25 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
Plugin approved in the directory on 2017-11-09
Detailed changes are available on GitHub.
Release Date: November 09, 2017
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