3.3: How do you hide the new dashboard welcome panel?

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I have tried various versions of this here: 

unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['high']['dashboard_wp_welcome_panel']);
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_wp_welcome_panel']);
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['wp_welcome_panel']);
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_welcome_panel']);
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['welcome_panel']);

I have tried looking this up but as there is not much documentation (there is but there isn’t ) on it yet it is kind of hard.

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I was wondering if someone could please help me out. I would really appreciate it. Thanks. 🙂

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  1. If you’re using multisite, there’s a plugin you can network activate to disable the welcome panel on all new sites. It’s aptly named “Hide Welcome Panel for Multisite.”

    If you just want to do this for a typical (single site) installation, it’s also pretty easy. The welcome screen is shown for a user if a specific meta key is set. So, add the following to a plugin and activate it …

    add_action( 'load-index.php', 'hide_welcome_panel' );

function hide_welcome_panel() {
    $user_id = get_current_user_id();

    if ( 1 == get_user_meta( $user_id, 'show_welcome_panel', true ) )
        update_user_meta( $user_id, 'show_welcome_panel', 0 );
}

    This code is adapted directly from the above-mentioned plugin, but I haven’t had a chance to personally test it …

  2. @EAMann’s solution hides the welcome panel from all users, but still allows the panel to be turned back on in the screen options. My solution, which should work in any installation (single or multisite), will remove it completely:

    add_action( 'load-index.php', 'remove_welcome_panel' );

function remove_welcome_panel()
{
    remove_action('welcome_panel', 'wp_welcome_panel');
    $user_id = get_current_user_id();
    if (0 !== get_user_meta( $user_id, 'show_welcome_panel', true ) ) {
        update_user_meta( $user_id, 'show_welcome_panel', 0 );
    }
}

    This removes the welcome panel action, which removes the welcome panel from the dashboard altogether. It then sets the user preference to hide the welcome panel for good measure. FYI, the preference can be set to 0 (hide), 1 (show or single site creator) or 2 (multisite site owner).