Title: Cannot remove admin notices
Last modified: November 3, 2016

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# Cannot remove admin notices

 *  [david wolfpaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidjlaietta/)
 * (@davidjlaietta)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-remove-admin-notices/)
 * I’m testing for fixes to the prior ticket that I’ve posted, and have another 
   issue that has been bothering me for the past two days: every time I deactivate/
   reactivate the plugin I get another admin activation notice that has no way to
   dismiss, and is not getting dismissed on it’s own. It appears that the option
   being tested for is not setting.
 * [https://www.dropbox.com/s/ercbgptfwj5zz9o/Screenshot%202016-11-03%2009.33.10.png?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/ercbgptfwj5zz9o/Screenshot%202016-11-03%2009.33.10.png?dl=0)

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 *  Plugin Author [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * (@brechtvds)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-remove-admin-notices/#post-8391643)
 * It doesn’t disappear after going to the Recipes > FAQ page either?
 *  Thread Starter [david wolfpaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidjlaietta/)
 * (@davidjlaietta)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-remove-admin-notices/#post-8391669)
 * Unfortunately not. I tried going to every internal page in the plugin but nothing.
   It may be interfering with something else on this site but I’ve not been able
   to diagnose it yet.
 * A friendly UX suggestion: I am in favor of all admin notices having dismiss links.
   😊
 *  Plugin Author [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * (@brechtvds)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-remove-admin-notices/#post-8391716)
 * The default behaviour should be that it shows up just once, so there’s no need
   for a dismissal button. I’m not sure what’s going wrong on your end.
 *  Thread Starter [david wolfpaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidjlaietta/)
 * (@davidjlaietta)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-remove-admin-notices/#post-8392126)
 * To respectfully disagree (though I admit that I don’t know if there is a coding
   standard for that specifically), there are times where default behaviors don’t
   perform, and offering users a visual/straightforward method to handle notices
   would be ideal.
 *  Plugin Author [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * (@brechtvds)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-remove-admin-notices/#post-8392147)
 * I mean: if it works then the notices disappears after showing once, so no need
   for a button.
 * If it doesn’t work (like in your case) then it’s not updating that user meta 
   for some reason. So pressing the button wouldn’t work either, because that would
   perform the same action (updating the user meta).
 *  Plugin Author [Brecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brechtvds/)
 * (@brechtvds)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-remove-admin-notices/#post-8392152)
 * Anyway. I’d try the usual debugging:
 * 1. Disable all other plugins, see if it works then.
    2. If not, try switching
   to a default theme (like Twenty Sixteen) and check again.

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