Disable Welcome Messages and Tips
Hide Welcome Messages and Tips, and disable default full screen mode in the Gutenberg Block Editor
Maintenance 72/10028d since update
Active installs
1,000
Downloads
99,578
Reviews
13
Age
5.4y
TagsgutenbergNotificationsblock-editor
Plugin info
Total downloads: 99,578
Active installs: 1,000
Total reviews: 13
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 2 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 12/3/2025 (28 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 7/25/2020 (5 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9
Minimum PHP version: 5.7
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Actively maintained • Last updated 28 days ago • 13 reviews
72/100
Is Disable Welcome Messages and Tips abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 28 days ago).
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 5.7
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Description
Hide Welcome Messages and Tips, and disable default full screen mode in the Gutenberg Block Editor
Installation
Please follow the standard installation procedure for WordPress plugins.
Follow this tutorial if you are not sure how to use the plugin.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Useful if you already know your way around Gutenberg and you don’t want to see the popups.
- Anther great use case is E2E testing. Just enable this plugin in your testing environment.
Review feed
Lee Hodson (VR51)
Absolutely Perfect!
Thank you!
Screenshots
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Changelog
1.2 (2025-09-25)
- Prevent JS error when wp.data is defined but wp.data.select(‘…’) is not
1.1 (2023-08-16)
- Change
jQuery(window).load(fn)tojQuery(window).on('load', fn)to meet latest jQuery standards and remove deprecation warnings in console.
1.0.9 (2022-01-27)
- Change
window.onload = fntojQuery(window).load(fn)to avoid conflicts with plugins/themes overwritingwindow.onload
1.0.8 (2020-09-24)
- Change
window.onload = fntojQuery(window).load(fn)to avoid conflicts with plugins/themes overwritingwindow.onload
1.0.7 (2020-09-24)
- Get rid of JS warning
1.0.6 (2020-09-24)
- Make sure that the Options modal and other modals still work.
1.0.5 (2020-07-29)
- Test with WP 5.5
1.0.3 (2020-07-29)
- Also disable full screen mode by default. Cause everybody hates full screen mode, right?
1.0.2 (2020-07-25)
- Update style rules
1.0.1 (2020-07-25)
- Real initial release
1.0.0 (2020-07-20)
- Initial release