cPanel 94 and Welcome to your new hosting account

andrewmoras

• February 06, 2021 02:50

Hey, It looks like cPanel 94 made a few changes to the UI for clients and changed the default order for the Sections (Email is before Files and Databases) and added a Welcome section with a new welcome screen that allows you to create an email account and pushing the "Site Publisher" in front. See attached screenshot. As a hoster I don't want that and I'd like to remove the welcome screen and change back the order of the sections, like it was before, in cPanel 94. Anyone knows if it's possible to do this as I'm unable to find where to customise that. Cheers!

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  LBJ

  • September 04, 2021 04:32

  G'day All, Specifically because of cPanel's increasing propensity over recent years to surprise clients with new features (Wordpress Toolkit, Switch to Glass Banner, Welcome to Your Hosting etc.), without also providing an accompanying WHM option to disable or configure the item, we run our own modified theme on all our boxes with minor patches to remove unwanted elements. When these new features provide clients with advice or tutorials directly in conflict with our own operating methods and protocols, it's particularly annoying. Waiting or hoping for cPanel to implement changes based on well-supported feature requests is completely unworkable for a living business. On each cPanel version update, a diff runs detecting any relevant changes between the new default theme files and our active modified theme. We then sync our theme to match the new files, while still including our patches as required. Usually, for minor version updates, there's little or nothing to do. With major updates, there's usually a few patches which just need to be reapplied over the top of the changed files, and we're good to go. If you also run your own custom theme (highly recommended for an easier life), a modification to the applicationList.html.tt file of the active theme will also solve the issue being discussed in this thread, for all accounts, existing and new. Change the single occurrence of the Template Toolkit code... [% IF show_welcome_panel %]
  ...to... [% IF 0 && show_welcome_panel %]
  Best regards, LBJ

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