How can I add a widget area to the top of the Dashboard?
Let’s dig into dashboard’s internals to see what we can do. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/5.3/src/wp-admin/_index.php#L129 First it renders welcome_panel via do_action( ‘welcome_panel’ ); so you can hook to it and output your custom content on top over all other widgets. You can also remove_action(‘welcome_panel’) before attaching your own to remove default or other content from being rendered there, … Read more