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hide screen Options and Help button from WordPress dashboard, useful when developing for clients
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Hide Screen Options button WordPress dashboard
// hide screen options and Help Buttons from WordPress Dashboard
// tested WP 4.1 Jan 25 2015
// https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-items-from-screen-options
// paste this code to functions.php file
add_action( 'admin_head', 'remove_wordpress_cfields' );
function remove_wordpress_cfields() {
echo '<style>#screen-meta-links { display: none; }</style>';
}
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drlogics commented Oct 8, 2018

// hide screen options and Help Buttons, WordPress Version and About WordPress from WordPress Dashboard
// #footer-upgrade will remove Version number from dashboard footer
// #screen-meta-links will remove Screen Options and Help Buttons from dashboard footer
// #wpadminbar #wp-admin-bar-wp-logo>.ab-item will remove About WordPress from dashboard footer
// https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-items-from-screen-options
// paste this code to functions.php file

add_action( 'admin_head', 'remove_wordpress_cfields' );
function remove_wordpress_cfields() {
echo '<style>#screen-meta-links, #footer-upgrade, #wpadminbar #wp-admin-bar-wp-logo>.ab-item { display: none; }</style>';
}

Thumbs up, tahirtaous! You'll be glad to know that the above code of yours was tested working today up to the latest Wordpress version 4.9.8. Hope you can modify this code for a specific Wordpress user sometime later. Thank you! Worked like a charm on my client's website. 👍

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