Title: Dashboard Screen Options Not Functioning
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Dashboard Screen Options Not Functioning

 *  [Fillip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/innerfortune/)
 * (@innerfortune)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-screen-options-not-functioning/)
 * Going nuts.
 * Dashboard > Screen Options > Show on screen:
    I uncheck the box but the selection
   keeps coming back.

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 *  Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-screen-options-not-functioning/#post-2268467)
 * are you trying to remove one of the default metaboxes or one added by a plug 
   in? Or does this happen if you try to remove any metabox from display?
 *  Thread Starter [Fillip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/innerfortune/)
 * (@innerfortune)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-screen-options-not-functioning/#post-2268468)
 * Hi Cubecolour,
    Thanks for your reply. Sorry I thought the problem was pretty
   obvious.
 * Within your Dashboard you have all these options:
    Your browser is out of Date!
   Right Now Recent Comments Incoming Links Recent Drafts Wordpress Blog Other WordPress
   News plus a few others.
 * All the above listed is preceded with a check box. I uncheck it, but it just 
   comes back as checked.
 * I’ve tried to toss my cookies (clear browser data). I’m using Chromium not Chrome.
 * I can move a box from one column to another.
 * But I can’t get rid of the stuff I really don’t need nor want. I’ve spent so 
   much time on this I’m just going to “accept” it 🙂
 *  Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-screen-options-not-functioning/#post-2268469)
 * I would test using a different browser to rule that out – and if possible also
   on a different computer.
    I would also test after deactivating all WordPress 
   plugins to investigate whether there is one causing this.
 *  Thread Starter [Fillip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/innerfortune/)
 * (@innerfortune)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-screen-options-not-functioning/#post-2268479)
 * Yes, I’ll try different browsers first than move on to deactivating plugins.
 * Thank you. I appreciate your suggestions. My fingers are crossed 🙂
 *  [PianoRock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pianorock/)
 * (@pianorock)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-screen-options-not-functioning/#post-2268666)
 * I have this issue with 3.2.1 as well. I have tried multiple browsers and deactivated
   all plugins. When I uncheck the various dashboard options, they do not hide the
   widgets on the dashboard page.
 *  [secretfocus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secretfocus/)
 * (@secretfocus)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-screen-options-not-functioning/#post-2268709)
 * I have something similar and cannot find a solution.
 * When ‘pages’ is selected from the dashboard I have somehow lost the page description
   and keywords columns and cannot find any method to recover them.
 * When I click ‘screen options’ all I get is what is already shown ‘title’ ‘author’
   and ‘date’. No other options are available.
 * Any ideas would be appreciated.

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 * [dashboard](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dashboard/)
 * [screen options](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/screen-options/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [secretfocus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secretfocus/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-screen-options-not-functioning/#post-2268709)
 * Status: not resolved

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