The Yoast SEO dashboard widget

When you enable the SEO analysis, we provide an overview widget in the WordPress dashboard. This widget is called Yoast SEO Posts Overview. In this article, we’ll explain what the widget shows and how you can remove it.

What does the Yoast SEO dashboard widget show?

The Yoast SEO dashboard widget shows you SEO scores and the latest blog posts and Yoast.com

At the top of the widget you can see the SEO score of your posts. You can immediately see what posts need improvement. If you click the text behind the red, orange, or green traffic light, you will be taken to an overview of all the posts that have the same SEO score. The gray traffic light collects all the posts that don’t have a focus keyphrase. You also see posts that shouldn’t show up in search results.

At the bottom of this widget, you’ll also see the most recent blog posts published on yoast.com.

How to remove the Yoast SEO dashboard widget

How to remove the widget for all users

If you would like to remove the widget for all users at once, add the custom code below to your theme’s functions.php file to disable the feature completely.

The following is an example of how you can use the filter:

add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_wpseo_dashboard_overview' );
function remove_wpseo_dashboard_overview() {
  // In some cases, you may need to replace 'side' with 'normal' or 'advanced'.
  remove_meta_box( 'wpseo-dashboard-overview', 'dashboard', 'side' );
}

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