Quick Tip: Disable Admin Notifications in the Magento Back-end

There are two quick ways to disable the sometimes annoying Admin notification in the Magento back end.

Method 1

Under: System > Configuration > Advanced > Advanced > Disable Modules Output simply set Mage_AdminNotification to “Disable”.

Method 2

The previous method works fine but potentially, a user can re-enable these easily. To make the change a bit more difficult to undo, we can disable the module from the modules XML files. If we already have a custom module, we can simply add:

        <Mage_AdminNotification>
            <active>false</active>
        </Mage_AdminNotification>

To our module XML file. A complete example could look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
	<modules>
        <MageBase_Custom>
        	<active>true</active>
        	<codePool>local</codePool>
            <depends>
                <Mage_Core />
                <Mage_Cms />
            </depends>
        </MageBase_Custom>
        <Mage_AdminNotification>
                <active>false</active>
        </Mage_AdminNotification>
	</modules>
</config>

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