[Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] Remove WordPress SEO dashboard widget

You can always hide widgets from the screen options tab.

I know that is an option and probably what I will end up doing, but I want to hide it from all users below Level 10 (Administrators).

I have a same problem. Close button doesn’t work and even unset function in functions file won’t remove it, like it does other widgets.

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I am having the same issue as well. Clicking the x brings up the note:

“If you reload, this widget will be gone and never appear again, unless you decide to delete the database option ‘yoastdbwidget’.”

and then if I reload, the widget comes back in full force.

This is also still happening with the latest version of WP 3.0.4.

I’m new to wordpress and coding but

I have removed

if ( !isset($options[‘removedbwidget’.$network]) || !$options[‘removedbwidget’.$network] )
wp_add_dashboard_widget( ‘yoast_db_widget’ , ‘The Latest From Yoast’ , array(&$this, ‘db_widget’) );

from yst_plugin_tools.php file (wordpress-seo/admin/ directory) and the widget disappeared

Thanks doubled! I tried removing a few things like that whole function, but I guess I was just going too big.

I have just commented it out, and it is working as advertised.

Thanks again

This is what we just used to hide a bunch of widgets for contributors and subscribers:

function tidy_dashboard() {
  global $wp_meta_boxes, $current_user;
  // remove incoming links info for contributors or subscribers
  if(in_array('contributor', $current_user->roles) || in_array('subscriber', $current_user->roles))
  {
    unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_incoming_links']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['yoast_db_widget']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_addthis']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['events_dashboard_window']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_primary']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary']);
  }
}
//add our function to the dashboard setup hook
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'tidy_dashboard');