How can I remove the network orders widget

Hi there,

When you say “Network Orders Widget” is this what you are referring to?

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/dashboard-widgets/#section-3

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We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved – if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.

Hi Amanda,
We would like to know how to remove that exact widget. It seems to be crashing our network when it’s loaded, most likely by accessing too many tables and causing the hosting to go havoc.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by Vincent Poirier.

Here’s how we removed it. It seems like it’s using too much resources on WPMU and causes a lot of crashes (503).

// Remove the heavy dashboard widgets
function remove_dashboard_meta() {
        remove_meta_box( 'woocommerce_network_orders', 'dashboard', 'normal' );
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'remove_dashboard_meta' );

To remove from the network dashboard the second parameter should be “dashboard-network”

function remove_dashboard_meta() {
        remove_meta_box( 'woocommerce_network_orders', 'dashboard-network', 'normal' );
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'remove_dashboard_meta' );

as described here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/remove_meta_box

out of curiosity, does anyone have any hard stats on how much strain the network order dashboard widget adds to the mix?

@amandasjackson Where did you go….