It’s under screen options.
Admin –> Plugins –> Deactivate Site Health
Also, please do check those reports.
Red = Bad, and might be things you could easily fix.
You’ll find them detailed in more depth at Tools > Site Health in your Dashboard.
Thanks but that’s not what I am asking. It’s this…that I want gone. None of those display settings has anything to do with wherever this tab is.
Or I want to find the css styles for where it is so I can change it to not be big ugly red and obnoxious, or set the display to none to make it go away.
Or to delete the entire site health business out of wordpress entirely otherwise because all these nag warnings on a brand new installation with a brand new updated wordpress and zero plugins actually installed is not gonna work for me.
It’s not just not displaying something on the main dash. It’s removing it entirely. Thanks tho!
@corrinarusso
Not sure what or where that suggestion is referring. I don’t have a specific plugin for it. It’s wordpress doing it.
That’s weird, I’ve honestly never seen that, even on sites where I have Site Health things to fix.
Maybe your hosting provider is injecting it?
Same thought, James. This may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles.
Try right-clicking that menu item and doing an Inspect Element (language may vary) in your browser, then copy the HTML for that button and have it here (using the Code block, please).
🤞there’s a name in maybe the style tags that will reveal who or what is adding it.
I will reach out to siteground and see if it’s their fault. Nothing was on the site but the brand new installation so there shouldn’t be any errors. It’s the tab I am trying to remove…even if it means removing the whole site health thing from wordpress core.
@sterndata and @macmanx
I will scrap it and begin with a clean install and add plugins one at a time til it shows up. BRB and thanks! lol
Site Health is pretty crucial to, well, your site’s health, so I don’t recommend nuking the whole Site Health feature.
With that said, it’s normally a lot quieter. As-is, it doesn’t even have a menu bar item, so I recommend tracking down what’s adding that menu bar item and addressing that instead.
@sterndata and @macmanx
So I set up a clean install of wordpress, uploaded the plugins, updated the wp database, updated the theme and plugins, deleted all the default themes but 2023, installed my preferred *classic, not blocks* theme. I hate blocks. Then I activated all of them one at a time and the big ugly red obnoxious button only showed up with the Restore Classic Widgets plugin. Deactivated it and it went away. Reactivated it, came back. So that appears to be the culprit causing the errors but there is nothing that says what the errors are. The log it provides in site tools is this 4 times
Date: [29-Aug-2023 18:16:20 UTC]Type: PHP Fatal error
Message: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/home/customer/www/SITENAME/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-site-health.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php74/pear’)
In: /home/customer/www/SITENAME/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 614
Which tells me nothing whatsoever. So a plugin triggers it but I still would like to know where the tab/styles css would be to change it from the above to normal and transparent background. I cannot find it with the inspect tool. It is not the site theme.
Any ideas?
Also, after it freaks out with the critical nag screaming stuff that is also annoying when it’s not something that critical, is there a way to silence it or turn it off or reset it so it stops?
Thanks!
I recommend asking at so the plugin’s / theme’s developers and support community can help you with this.
OR, replace that plugin with
Thanks. I removed that plugin. I have classic widgets. Now it’s back to the original question of how to fix the tab styles.