Title: welcome_panel
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# do_action( ‘welcome_panel’ )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/welcome_panel/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/welcome_panel/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/welcome_panel/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Fires when adding content to the welcome panel on the admin dashboard.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/welcome_panel/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

To remove the default welcome panel, use [remove_action()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/remove_action/):

    ```php
    remove_action( 'welcome_panel', 'wp_welcome_panel' );
    ```

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/welcome_panel/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    do_action( 'welcome_panel' );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/index.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.1/src/wp-admin/index.php#L198)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.1/src/wp-admin/index.php#L198-L198)

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/welcome_panel/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.5.0/) | Introduced. |

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