How to Remove WooThemes Updater Nag

Despite the annoyance that many WooCommerce users experience, WooThemes continues to not make the “WooThemes Helper” nag dismissible. This plugin nag is shown whenever you install any premium WooThemes product, such as a WooCommerce extension. It doesn’t go away until you install the WooThemes Helper plugin. The reality is that many WooThemes/WooCommerce customers purchase things with a single license but use them on multiple websites. There’s nothing wrong with this because WooThemes products are licensed under the GPL and, therefore, their usage cannot be limited. If you are using a plugin you purchased without the license key activated on your site, you don’t have a need for the WooThemes Helper plugin. However, WooThemes nags you with this notice until you install it.

Sure, anyone can say that this plugin helps users and we don’t deny that it has its benefits. We feel, though, that since a license key is not required, this plugin should not be forced on the user. Making it dismissible like every other WordPress nag you see would make things easier on everyone and annoy customers less. But until this feature is worked in, the only way to remove the nag is through a simple code snippet. Just paste this in your functions.php file.

<php
// Remove the WooThemes Helper notice from the admin
add_action( 'init', 'uw_remove_woothemes_helper_nag' );
function uw_remove_woothemes_helper_nag() {
	remove_action( 'admin_notices', 'woothemes_updater_notice' );
}