Custom Welcome Panel Widget in WordPress Dashboard

The WordPress core includes a nice welcome widget that displays when you install WordPress.

The widget is targeted at beginners and includes admin links to help them get started.

This tutorial provides the code which replicates the widget and makes it easy to add your own links, dashicons and text.

Here’s the code you simply paste in your functions file or plugin:

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