Duplicate user

Hi @fid! When a user disables a box on their dashboard, that setting is stored in the metaboxhidden_dashboard user meta field. The user meta for a new user can be customised using the insert_user_meta filter. In this filter, you could copy over the metaboxhidden_dashboard field from the template user.

Example:

function customize_user_meta( $meta, $user, $update ) {
	if ( ! $update ) { // Run only when a user is created
		$template_user = get_user_by( 'slug', 'template' );
		$meta['metaboxhidden_dashboard'] = get_user_meta( $template_user->ID, 'metaboxhidden_dashboard', true );
	}
}
add_filter( 'insert_user_meta', 'customize_user_meta', 10, 3 );

https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/reference/hooks/insert_user_meta/

Yes, though you might have to copy over more fields than in my example above. To figure out which user meta keys contain the settings that you want to copy, I suggest setting up WP CLI and running wp user meta list template to list all of the user meta for the ‘template’ user.

https://wp-cli.org