Lewis6325

The welcome message should be disabled and removed outright if it cannot store in the site’s database which users have dismissed it.

My browser is set to clear all data on close, but this happens with every page load. My LocalStorage thingy can’t be clearing out after every page load surely… and my cookies don’t either, even though not relevant to this case (and of course if cookies were clearing then I wouldn’t say logged in).

Personally just feel like this welcome thingy has been badly implemented and would prefer maybe an admin panel widget or something that lets someone open it themselves. It should offer a tutorial rather than shove it in my face if it’s closure isn’t being stored in a database, in my opinion.

I agree that it should be stored in the database, just like practically every plugin. Why wordpress needs to be different in this regard and save it to a browser, when we live in a privacy concious world with many people choosing to browse privately or reguarly clear cookies, is beyond me. Very odd choice.

Why is it stored as a browser cookie rather than stored to the database so it NEVER comes back regardless of my browser?

Good to know it’s not just me. Really fustrating. Why is this not working?

But it does reappear, every fecking page I go in to, it will come up. I