remove activity feed from Wordpress admin

Question

I am looking for a way to hide activity feed from the dashboard using a function. Does anyone know how to do this? I want to completely remove it. I want to achieve this without a plugin.

Answer 1

You'll either have to create a plugin or add a function to your theme functions.php file.

function remove_activity_dashboard_widget() {
    remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_activity', 'dashboard', 'side' );
} 

// Hook into the 'wp_dashboard_setup' action to register our function
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_activity_dashboard_widget' );

Here is the codex page on the subject:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Widgets_API#Advanced:_Removing_Dashboard_Widgets

Answer 2

You can use remove_meta_box() like;

function remove_dashboard_widgets(){
    remove_meta_box('dashboard_activity', 'dashboard', 'normal');
}
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets');

add above code to functions.php

Answer 3

Dashboard widgets and other meta boxes can also be removed by using the unset function. You might need to play around with the array keys, or use var_dump() to find the path for the widget you're looking for.

 // Removes dashboard activity widget.
  function remove_dashboard_activity_widget() {
    global $wp_meta_boxes;
    unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_activity']);
  }

  // Triggers dashboard widgets removal.
  add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_activity_widget');

Additionally like Hüseyin BABAL mentioned, meta boxes can also be removed like this:

function remove_dashboard_widgets(){
    remove_meta_box('dashboard_activity', 'dashboard', 'normal');
}

add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets');